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Meta ended 2025 with $81.59 billion in cash and $58.74 billion in long-term debt. A year earlier, that debt figure was $28.83 billion. In twelve months, Meta nearly doubled its long-term obligations, and then sold another $30 billion in corporate bonds in a single offering, the largest of 2025, the day after Zuckerberg told analysts the company would spend even more aggressively on AI. That is not a company funding growth from operations. That is a company making a leveraged

Right now, inside your environment, there are identities operating with elevated privileges, accessing sensitive systems, executing transactions, and moving data, and not a single one of them will ever appear on an HR roster. They are AI agents. Automated workflows. Orchestration pipelines built on tools like LangChain, AutoGPT, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. And the credentials they carry, OAuth tokens, API keys, service account secrets, exist almost entirely outside the gove

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview was released this week in limited capacity, deliberately constrained because the company itself acknowledged that hackers could exploit its capabilities. Let that sink in. A frontier AI lab launched a model it openly concedes could be weaponized, briefed senior U.S. government officials on its offensive cyber applications, and simultaneously rolled it out to JPMorgan, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia under something called Project Glasswi

Most organizations still treat the Chief Risk Officer as an afterthought, a reporting line buried under the CISO, a box checked inside Internal Audit, or worse, a title that doesn’t exist at all. That’s not a governance gap. It’s an existential one. Risk is the only unifying enterprise function. Every threat vector, cyber, financial, operational, human, geopolitical, converges there. Yet most org charts still fragment it. The CISO owns cyber. The CFO owns financial exposure.

Oracle just handed their new CFO a $29.7 million compensation package. Thirty thousand employees got pink slips six days earlier. Let that sink in. On March 31, 2026, employees across the United States, India, Canada, Mexico, and other countries received termination emails from “Oracle Leadership” at 6 a.m. , with no advance notice from HR or their direct managers. No phone call. No conversation. Just a form email before most of the country finished their morning coffee. Acce

Wars are no longer fought solely on battlefields, they are fought in server rooms, inside supply chains, and deep within the data your organization trusts with its life. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have made a strategic decision. Kinetic warfare is expensive, visible, and politically costly. Cyber warfare is cheap, deniable, and devastatingly effective. These are not opportunistic criminal actors. These are nation-state adversaries with dedicated military and intelligence u

Corporations sold AI to their boards as a productivity revolution. What they got instead is a million lines of unreviewed code, a security backlog nobody can close, and engineers burning out babysitting the machines that were supposed to replace them. The New York Times recently pulled back the curtain on what AI-assisted development actually looks like. One financial services firm deployed Cursor and watched coding output increase tenfold. The result wasn’t a leaner operatio

Allbirds (a shoe company)sold its IP and brand assets for $39 million last month, a company that was worth over $4 billion at its peak. Closed all its U.S. stores in February. Revenue down nearly 50% over three years. By any measure, it was over. Then yesterday, the shell that remained announced it’s pivoting to AI compute infrastructure, rebranding as NewBird AI, and the stock exploded over 600% in a single session. A $21 million market cap company suddenly trading like it m

Microsoft drops patches on the second Tuesday of every month. Security teams celebrate. Attackers open a bottle. Here’s what most executives don’t understand, and what every MSP hopes you never figure out. The moment a patch is released, the vulnerability it fixes is no longer a secret. Researchers, defenders, and attackers all get the same information at the same time. The patch itself is a roadmap. Reverse-engineer the fix and you know exactly what was broken. You know the

Bloomberg just reported that of the 7,071 Cybertrucks registered in Q4 2025, SpaceX alone registered 1,279 of them. Eighteen percent of the quarter. Another 60 went to other Musk-affiliated ventures. Strip those out and Cybertruck registrations fall 51 percent. The trend is continuing into 2026. SpaceX registered 158 more in January and 67 in February. At $70,000 a truck, the Q4 purchases alone clear $100 million. Now layer in the piece nobody in the financial press seems to

April 15 wasn’t just tax day. It was the deadline for every NYDFS-regulated entity to certify compliance with the final provisions of 23 NYCRR Part 500. Roughly 3,000 covered entities. Two signatures per filing, CEO and CISO. Both personal. Both attesting that their organization has implemented universal MFA and maintains a complete, documented asset inventory of every information system they own. Most of those signatures were lies. Not deliberate ones. Convenient ones. We ca

Most CCOs don’t know it’s running. On December 3, 2025, the SEC’s amended Regulation S-P took full effect for every registered investment adviser with $1.5 billion or more in AUM, every broker-dealer that isn’t a small entity under the Exchange Act, every investment company with $1 billion in net assets, and every funding portal. Smaller entities have until June 3, 2026, seven weeks away. Unlike NYDFS Part 500, there is no annual certification. No signature. No public attesta

Most every firm of any significant size has one, a four-foot Xerox or Ricoh or Canon parked in the corner, scanning client documents to email, pulling from the directory, collating tax returns, Bates-stamping discovery, printing off financials. Nobody patches it. Nobody monitors it. Nobody can tell you what firmware it is running. When the lease ends, it goes back to the vendor with a hard drive full of everything it has ever scanned, and nobody asks where that drive goes ne

Every security vendor sells you technology. EDR, XDR, SIEM, SOAR, NGFW, CASB, ZTNA, a new acronym every quarter, each one promising to close the gap the last one opened. Boards approve the spend. CISOs defend the stack. Analysts swivel between dashboards. And somewhere in the middle of that orchestra, a help-desk technician at your MSP accepts a password reset over the phone from a voice that sounds tired and urgent and happens to know the name of the CFO’s assistant. That is

Solow is back. The AI industry should be nervous. In 1987, Nobel laureate Robert Solow looked at a decade of computer investment and delivered a line that still stings, you can see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics. Forty years later, the same verdict just landed on generative AI. A February 2026 NBER study of 6,000 executives across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia found nearly 90% of firms report AI has had no measurable impact on employmen

Deloitte just trimmed benefits for its workforce while leaning harder into AI-driven efficiency, and they are not alone. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/exQMBAwu Every dollar a CFO carves from IT salaries is a dollar added to insider threat exposure. The math is that simple, and most boards refuse to do it. Revenue pressure hits the P&L. The CFO looks for soft targets. IT compensation gets flagged as discretionary. Benefits trimmed. Bonuses deferred. Headcount frozen while work

Scroll the feed and watch it happen in real time. A Big Four firm posts a pastel graphic about “the future of trust.” Five thousand likes. An Nvidia executive shares a stock image with the caption “AI will change everything.” Eight thousand likes. A partner at a global consulting shop reposts someone else’s repost of a Harvard summary of a McKinsey deck. Fourteen thousand likes. None of it contains an original thought. None of it takes a position. None of it risks being wrong

Grant Thornton just made it official. Tom Puthiyamadam twenty-eight years at PwC, now national managing principal of advisory at GT, has tied partner year-end bonuses to AI adoption. Not as one factor among many. As a non-negotiable. “If you’re not on the boat, choose a different boat.” The new scorecard hit every partner on January 1, 2026. The strategy is explicit: AI lowers unit cost while dramatically lifting the volume of clients each partner can serve. Revenue up. Cost

KPMG just cut 10% of its US audit partners. The press release calls it “realignment.” Let’s call it what it is, a confession. The audit business is growing. Partners are being shown the door anyway. That math only works one way. Partners are expensive overhead. Automation, offshore delivery centers, AI, and junior staff are cheaper. The Big Four is betting clients won’t notice when the senior voice in the room becomes a signature on a signoff page attached to a model-generate

I’ve said it for months, the layoff wave isn’t cresting, it’s accelerating. Yesterday Meta joined the pile. Eight thousand jobs, ten percent of the workforce, effective May 20. Same week, the BBC announced 2,000 cuts, ten percent of its people, £500 million out of the cost base, the deepest cut since 2011. A public broadcaster, not a hyperscaler. The contagion has jumped the fence. Run the roll call. Oracle dropped an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people in a single 6 a.m. email