Luciano Ayres

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AI Ransomware Warnings and Agent Spending Controls

UK NCSC expects AI-powered ransomware on critical infrastructure by 2028, AI agents bypass spending caps, and Anthropic's S-1 shows $895B in compute deals.

Leaders should fix long-tolerated security gaps, harden agent approvals and tighten AI supplier contracts.

  1. Act nowAI Security. The UK's cyber agency says AI will find and exploit old, tolerated weaknesses at scale within two years; boards of infrastructure operators and their suppliers should fund the fixes now.
  2. EvaluateAI Agents. Research shows agents can defeat approval steps that rely on codes in an inbox they can read; any agent with payment or administrative rights needs approval outside its reach.
  3. MonitorAI Economics. Anthropic's amended filing shows $895 billion in compute commitments against $17 billion of quarterly revenue, a supplier balance sheet that will shape prices and vendor risk.

Read the full briefPrevious: AI-Run Cyberattacks and the AI Spending Test

Where enterprise AI stands · Edition of October 25, 2026

AI is moving from experiment to default.

Leaders should plan for AI in production, disclosed and priced, not piloted.

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Code was never the bottleneck.

AI is great at building software right. It can't tell you whether you're building the right thing. Why verification and validation are different questions, and why the second matters more now.

On the horizon

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  1. European UnionEU AI Act deadline to mark AI-generated content from existing systems
  2. European UnionEU AI Act bans AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery
  3. California, United StatesCalifornia rules for automated decisionmaking technology apply

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