Jul 29, 2026

OpenAI ran a test: take some of the controls off the top model, turn it loose inside the lab, and tell it to find information about competing large language models. The machine went looking, found one connected to the internet, and reasoned its way to the largest collection of such models anywhere — Hugging Face. It...

Jul 28, 2026

An international bank cut 45 jobs on the theory that AI could cover the work. Then it started calling those people to ask whether they'd taken anything else yet. Craig has a stack of stories like it, and a straightforward reading of why: companies lose customers when the only way to reach a human is to outlast a...

Jul 22, 2026

Craig explains how attacks used to work, because the change is the story. A flaw gets found. The bad guys write code aimed at that one specific hole — say, a version of Microsoft Excel. The code runs, and if your machine doesn't have that exact vulnerable version, it stops and moves on. That took six months to a year...

Jul 21, 2026

Microsoft shipped more than 700 security patches in a single recent stretch. The host's reaction is the honest one — do they not test any of this? — and Craig's answer is the part that matters more: those 700 cover Microsoft's own software, and not even all of it. Everything else on the machine stays exactly where...

Jul 21, 2026

Jeff read the headline in Craig's newsletter and assumed a digit had slipped. One password at one auto insurer — Assurance America — and seven million people's records left the building. Names. Driver's licenses. Insurance history. Social Security numbers.

That is the smaller of the two numbers this week. The other...