AI agents in cyber attacks: Taiwan incident and practical CISO playbook

Three executive takeaways Incident reported: Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs detected an “abnormal attack” beginning 20 July, investigators say it combined manual operations with AI‑agent assistance. Single‑source claims matter: An Israeli firm, Dream, told the Financial Times the intrusion used open‑source AI agents and claimed at least 85 government accounts and more than 2, 500 […]

Grok 4.6: 500,000‑Token Context — implications for long‑running agents, caching, and pilots

TL;DR: Grok 4.6 provides a 500, 000-token single-session context, which helps with long debugging, knowledge work, and long-running agents. SpaceXAI reports improved multi-step self-checking, but those behavioral claims are vendor-published and not yet independently reproduced. Cost, routing, and transparency trade-offs mean pilots are essential. What Grok 4.6 actually is (short) SpaceXAI describes Grok 4.6 as […]

Shortlisting ML vendors in 2026: platforms, services and contract SLAs for production

How to shortlist ML vendors in 2026, platforms, services and the contract items that separate pilots from products Vendor roundups are plentiful. Procurement-ready guidance is not. If your goal is models that survive contact with the real world, including retraining cadence, monitoring, on-call ownership and integration into a system of record, you need a different […]

AI Automation: 11 Durable Human Roles, KPIs and a 90‑Day Playbook

When the machine does the draft at 03:17, what are you still responsible for? “Start with the honest part, because reassurance is cheap and you can get it anywhere.”, SmartDataCollective A model can produce a perfectly formatted incident timeline at 03:17, consistent, repeatable and polite. It will not legally sign the decision, climb a rusting […]