Enterprise AI Plans Are Harder to Get Than You'd Think
Two months into pricing a small Enterprise AI plan with a HIPAA BAA, one vendor has answered cleanly, one has answered with meetings, and one hasn't answered at all.
Two months into pricing a small Enterprise AI plan with a HIPAA BAA, one vendor has answered cleanly, one has answered with meetings, and one hasn't answered at all.
Today's fifteen-minute Node 24 upgrade is a reminder that cloud applications carry a maintenance calendar whether you planned for one or not.
On April 15, NIST announced that the National Vulnerability Database will only enrich CVEs that affect federal software, critical infrastructure, or vulnerabilities CISA already sees being exploited. Everything else gets filed as 'Not Scheduled.' The quiet consequence: the vulnerability scanners your organization relies on may start missing things โ and showing green anyway.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 today โ better coding, sharper vision, a model that checks its own work. Its best model still isn't shipping.
Between April 5 and April 7, two unrelated supply chain attacks compromised WordPress sites through the one channel admins are trained to trust: plugin updates. One hijacked Nextend's update servers to push a weaponized Smart Slider 3 Pro build to 800,000+ installations. The other activated dormant backdoors in 30+ plugins an attacker had quietly purchased on Flippa a year earlier.
Measuring engineers by how many AI tokens they burn is the lines-of-code metric wearing new clothes โ and with compute now a genuinely constrained resource, the waste isn't free.
Microsoft's April Patch Tuesday addresses 163 vulnerabilities โ the second-largest monthly release in company history โ including an actively exploited SharePoint spoofing zero-day, a publicly disclosed Defender privilege escalation linked to the BlueHammer proof-of-concept, and a wormable TCP/IP RCE. The Secure Boot certificate cliff is 73 days out.
PwC's new survey of 1,217 executives finds AI's financial returns are concentrating sharply at the top. A small group of companies is pulling away; most are still stuck in pilot mode. The leaders look different in specific, measurable ways.
A new economics paper argues AI layoffs are a prisoner's dilemma with one escape โ a Pigouvian tax on automation. Every other fix economists reach for (UBI, profit-sharing, retraining, wage cuts) leaves the trap intact.
Adobe patched CVE-2026-34621 on April 11 after a prototype pollution flaw in Acrobat Reader was actively exploited via malicious PDFs since November 2025. If you manage a large fleet of Windows endpoints, here's what to do today โ beyond hitting Check for Updates.