OpenAI and Google Found Ancient PHP Bugs. The Real Story Is What They Couldn’t Map
A research team at Wiz, the security firm owned by Alphabet ($GOOGL), worked alongside researchers from OpenAI last week. Together they traced a flaw buried in PHP, the scripting language that has run a large share of the web since the 1990s. Nothing about the underlying bug was new; what changed was who found it,…
The Security Story Is the AI Risk Story
An AI coding agent needs no click to be turned against you. That’s the detail buried in this week’s disclosure about a zero-click remote code execution flaw in AI coding agents, reported by The Register. No phishing link, no malicious download, no moment where a person had to be fooled. The agent itself, sitting with…
The To-Do List Is Just the Beginning
Three companies announced personal AI agents this week, all promising to handle your calendar, your emails, your shopping, and your errands. The framing is always the same: finally, an assistant that does the boring stuff so you can focus on what matters. It’s a reasonable pitch, and it’s also the wrong level of analysis. The…
The Race Isn’t for the Model. It’s for the Floor.
Google is accelerating its push to put Gemini at the center of Android before Apple ships its AI reboot, and the coverage treats it as a sprint: who launches first, whose model is more capable, whose demo lands cleaner. That framing misses what the race is actually about. By the time you are choosing between…