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AI Rebuilds $50B Pharma Giant's Thinking, Plan Could Help Every Data-Driven Firm
GSK is redesigning pharmaceutical research around AI, from data infrastructure to autonomous scientific agents. Its platforms accelerate hypothesis generation, imaging analysis and drug discovery workflows, offering CIOs a blueprint for enterprise-scale AI transformation in regulated industries.

Déjà Vu: Is Mythos in Hands of Bad Actors Akin to Cobalt Strike, Brute Ratel Abuse?
Anthropic's Claude Mythos and similarly powerful artificial intelligence tools pose elevated cyber risk to the healthcare sector, warns a new report. Addressing the onslaught of newly discovered bugs will require healthcare organizations to evolve their vulnerability mindsets.

Musk's Claims Against Altman and Microsoft Dismissed After Less Than Two Hours
A federal jury took less than two hours to dismiss Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, finding his claims were filed outside the statute of limitations. The verdict clears the path for OpenAI's planned IPO at a valuation nearing $1 trillion.

AI Adoption Is Accelerating, but Workforce Capability Isn't Keeping Pace
Technology will continue to evolve. AI will embed itself across enterprise environments and attack surfaces will expand regardless of organizational readiness. The real challenge lies on the upskilling side, where the gap is widening - often without immediate visibility.

3-Week Court Battle Exposes Dark Side of AI Vendors and Their Promises
The Musk v. Altman trial produced something more unsettling than a verdict. It revealed an AI industry built on promises that turned out to be negotiable, governed by people whose colleagues called them liars under oath. Enterprise buyers should be paying attention.

License Frontier AI to Practice Medicine, Argues JAMA Article
Scrutiny is intensifying around the quickly evolving role that AI is playing in healthcare. That includes issues around the transparency and safety of consumer health chatbots and also whether a new clinical AI licensing framework is necessary to protect the integrity of medicine.

Driftnet Acquisition Adds Real-Time Visibility Into Exposed Assets and AI Risks
SecurityScorecard acquired internet reconnaissance startup Driftnet to expand real-time visibility into hidden infrastructure, exposed assets and AI-driven third-party risks while strengthening threat hunting, attribution and internet-scale intelligence capabilities.

Broken vdaemon Peering Authentication Enables Unauthenticated Admin Access
A maximum-severity vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller is being actively exploited, giving attackers administrative privileges without authentication. The authentication bypass vulnerability stems from a broken peering authentication mechanism.

Reports: Trump Administration Approval of Nvidia H200 Sales Poses Frontier AI Risks
Trump administration discussions on AI governance with China are colliding with reports that Washington may permit expanded Nvidia H200 chip sales to Chinese firms, fueling concerns that U.S. technology access could accelerate Beijing's frontier AI and military-linked ambitions.

'Have I Been Pwned' Founder Troy Hunt Reviews Impact on People and Organizations
The volume of data breaches that result in stolen personal data being leaked online has been surging, "courtesy of the ShinyHunters," and while it affects individuals, the organizations being extorted are bearing the brunt of such attacks, said Troy Hunt, founder and CEO of Have I Been Pwned.

Computing Giant Touts Multi-Agentic 'MDASH' Approach as Superior to Single Models
Microsoft says its new approach to finding vulnerabilities with artificial intelligence agents outclasses the single models touted by Anthropic and OpenAI. MDASH is only being utilized internally by Microsoft engineers and tested by a "small set of customers as part of a limited private preview."

Ransomware Payouts, AI-Driven Threats and Reshaping Payment Fraud
In this week's panel, four ISMG editors discussed a ransomware case that once again raises questions about paying extortionists, why security leaders fear AI is accelerating attacks faster than humans can respond and how the rise of instant payments is reshaping fraud programs at banks.

Hackers Constantly Break 'Confirmation of Data Destruction' Promises
When a business that stores children's personal data gets hit by data-leaking extortionists, what should it do? For Instructure, which develops online learning platform Canvas, the answer was to pay a ransom, and tell victims, straight-faced, to have "digital confirmation of data destruction."

Chuck Robbins Warns Customers Face Growing Exposure From Equipment Past Support
Cisco is embedding Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview into internal security operations to test code, accelerate patching and push infrastructure upgrades, even as it lays off 4,000 employees to redirect spending toward AI, silicon, optics and security.