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With Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic Shows That Creating Exploits Is Easier Than Creating Fixes

Cybersecurity leaders must speed up patching and scale their roadmap efforts, moving faster toward autonomous exposure remediation.

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Microsoft Takes on Perplexity With Multimodel Researcher Using Both OpenAI and Anthropic

The differentiator is not merely model choice, but how multiple models are applied together within a single, purpose‑built workflow.

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Beyond Social Media — What Meta’s Product Defect Verdict Means for All Applications

If your internal or external tools include these addictive, deceptive or damaging characteristics, you are at risk.

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Information Technology

CFOs Must Protect Their Organizations in the Age of Disinformation
First Take: The New Slackbot Transforms Slack to an AI Workhub, With Dependencies
AI Implementation Guide: Investor Relations Analysis

High Tech

First Take: Cisco’s Galileo Acquisition Exposes AI Trust Gaps in Observability
First Take: Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing Push Security Providers to Adopt Autonomous Defense
First Take: Microsoft Seeks AI Self-Sufficiency Through New Foundation Models

Cybersecurity

First Take: The U.S. Warns of PLC Cyberattacks; Update Your CPS Security Posture Now
First Take: With Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic Shows That Creating Exploits Is Easier Than Creating Fixes
First Take: New U.S. Cyber Strategy Goes on the Offensive

Supply Chain

First Take: U.S. Customs Releases Tariff Refund Process — Prepare Now to File Claims on 20 April
First Take: Executive Leaders Must Plan Ongoing Risk Mitigation for the War in the Middle East
First Take: Panama Canal Port Transition — Stay Focused, Not Alarmed

Data & Analytics

First Take: SAP Agrees to Acquire Reltio for AI — Review Your MDM Strategy Now
First Take: Oracle’s Private Agents for Database Demand Cautious Evaluation
First Take: Oracle’s New AI Agent Strategy Counters Competitors’ Agentic Claims, but Is Centered on Fusion and AI Database 26ai

Software Engineering

First Take: Muse Spark Signals Meta’s Pivot to Proprietary AI Models
First Take: Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview Exposes Remediation as the Bottleneck
First Take: Claude Code Source Leak Exposes Anthropic's Existing Operational Maturity Gaps

Finance

First Take: U.S. Supreme Court’s Tariff Reversal Gives CFOs a Narrow Window to Lead
First Take: Finance Plugin for Anthropic’s Claude Cowork Eases Entry Into Agentic AI

Infrastructure & Operations

First Take: Dynatrace Acquires Bindplane to Tackle the Observability Data Crisis
First Take: The IBM-Arm Z Hardware Collaboration Shows That Mainframes Are Still Going Strong
First Take: Datadog-Sakana AI Partnership Exposes a Critical Gap in AI Observability

Human Resources

First Take: Seismic-Highspot Pending Merger Limits Options, Raises Risks

Legal and Compliance

First Take: Anthropic’s Claude Cowork Continues to Complement, Not Displace, Legal-Specific AI Applications
First Take: Two GC Actions After U.S. Supreme Court Tariff Ruling
First Take: Anthropic’s Swing at Legal Workflows: GCs Should Remain Invested in Legal-Specific AI Applications

Marketing

First Take: Anthropic’s Cowork Won’t Scale CMOs’ Productivity Efforts
First Take: Google’s UCP Debuts: The Open Standard Set to Transform Agentic Commerce

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