When AI Gets Affordable: Sam Altman’s Forecast and Jio’s ₹10 Trillion Investment

When AI Gets Affordable: Sam Altman’s Forecast and Jio’s ₹10 Trillion Investment

The India AI Impact Summit in Delhi crystallized a striking convergence: a global prediction about rapidly falling AI costs paired with one of India’s largest private investments in the technology. OpenAI’s CEO observed that the expense of obtaining difficult answers from advanced models has plunged by orders of magnitude in just over a year, and he expects further dramatic declines

Claude Cowork finally lands on Windows

Claude Cowork finally lands on Windows

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork has arrived on Windows, closing a major platform gap and bringing its AI-powered desktop agent to a much larger share of enterprise users. The Windows release delivers local file access, multi-step automation, plugin integrations, and Model Context Protocol connectors, matching the macOS version and positioning Cowork as a mainstream productivity agent for knowledge work. What Cowork brings

From The Blinking Cursor to The Thinking Machine: A Memoir of Automation

From The Blinking Cursor to The Thinking Machine: A Memoir of Automation

There is a specific kind of silence that only exists in a server room late at night. It isn’t actually quiet—the fans are screaming, the air conditioning is humming like a jet engine, and the hard drives are clicking in a chaotic rhythm. But for those of us who have spent the last two decades in IT, it feels silent

When Money Talks and Machines Mimic: Ransomware, Extortion, and the AI Arms Race in Cybersecurity

When Money Talks and Machines Mimic: Ransomware, Extortion, and the AI Arms Race in Cybersecurity

The landscape of cyber threats has shifted decisively toward financially motivated crime. Extortion and ransomware now drive more than half of attacks with known motivations, as opportunistic criminal groups scale operations with automated tooling and AI. Speed, automation, and deception combine to inflict outsized damage on vulnerable organizations and public services. Why extortion and ransomware dominate Ransomware and extortion target

When Plugins Move Markets: Lessons from a Single-Day “SaaSpocalypse”

When Plugins Move Markets: Lessons from a Single-Day “SaaSpocalypse”

Anthropic’s rapid rollout of open‑source plugins for Claude Cowork—especially a legal workflow plugin—triggered a market shock that erased roughly $285 billion in software, legal‑tech, and related stocks in a single day. The episode is less about one technical breakthrough and more about a strategic shift: model providers are moving from offering raw capability to delivering vertical workflows. That marginal step

Microsoft Adds Native System Monitor (Sysmon) Support to Windows 11

Microsoft Adds Native System Monitor (Sysmon) Support to Windows 11

Microsoft has begun shipping System Monitor (Sysmon) as a native, opt-in capability in Windows 11 preview builds. This change moves a widely used, high-fidelity endpoint telemetry tool from an optional Sysinternals download to an OS-managed feature. For security teams, IT operations, and incident responders, native Sysmon promises simpler deployment, stronger integration with Windows management channels, and a more consistent telemetry