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Volume 343, Issue 4 · 2026-10-26 – 2026-11-01 · Popular → · Newsletters (LinkedIn, Substack)

Friday’s Briefing · November 6

InformationWeek, Thursday, October 29th, 2026

Dallas CIO Reshapes IT Amid AI Threats

New Dallas CIO Jeff Stovall describes hiring a CISO, reorganizing IT and prioritizing cybersecurity and AI talent amid AI-driven threats. more →

Dallas CIO Reshapes IT Amid AI Threats

Computer Weekly, Monday, October 26th, 2026

Gartner: Winning in the edge

Gartner analyst Jimmy Chuang outlines how edge AI providers can win by selling managed, sovereign token services rather than raw GPU capacity. more →

Gartner: Winning in the edge

Cohere, Thursday, October 29th, 2026

Who Gets to Build the Frontier for AI

Cohere announces the initial close of a Series E targeting up to CAD $7 billion, led by Schwarz Group, to build a non-US, non-China frontier AI firm. more →

Who Gets to Build the Frontier for AI

CrowdStrike, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026

When AI Guardrails Expose Vulnerabilities

CrowdStrike researchers found AI model refusals can point to hidden code vulnerabilities, a method they call Guardrail-based Vulnerability Discovery. more →

When AI Guardrails Expose Vulnerabilities

Upcoming Event · Wed, Nov 18 · 1:00pm

AI Can Code. Can It Run Production? Let's Build It Together

In this hands-on workshop, you'll follow a Kubernetes incident from its first symptom through investigation, remediation, and recovery. Using a sandbox environment and open-source tooling, you'll connect an agent to operational tools, automate root-cause investigation, inspect its execution, and introduce human approval gates before allowing it to make changes. more →

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AI Can Code. Can It Run Production? Let's Build It Together (Nov. 18th)

Upcoming Event · Mon, Nov 23 · 3:00pm

Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault

This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →

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Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault (Nov. 23rd)

Sophos, Monday, October 26th, 2026

The Breachpocalypse Is Here

Sophos CISO Ross McKerchar warns a breachpocalypse is underway and urges leaders to act before the data fully confirms it. more →

The Breachpocalypse Is Here