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Four Chokepoints: The Fortnight That Made European Technology Sovereignty Unavoidable

Solo episode — Part 1 of the Four Chokepoints series
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Four chokepoints: inside the fortnight that made European technology sovereignty unavoidable
From the Strait of Hormuz to ASML in Eindhoven, four supply chains failed in fourteen days and the board papers being written this month still treat it…
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Anthropic Built a Model Too Dangerous to Release. Then It Gave It to 12 American Companies.
Yesterday, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing — a cybersecurity coalition built around Claude Mythos Preview, a frontier AI model so proficient at…
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Anthropic just said its new AI model is too dangerous to release. Then it gave it to 12 American companies.
Project Glasswing, Claude Mythos Preview, and what it means when the best cyber defence on earth is controlled by a single country's tech ecosystem.
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The Orchestration Gap
New evidence reveals orchestration, not smarter algorithms, separates AI winners from the 75% that fail to deliver value. Cross-sector case studies show…
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Who Controls the Agent?
Listen now | with Andrew Dunbar, CISO at Shopify
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When AI Hunts Its Own Bugs
How Claude's vulnerability discovery and the 1,500% surge in criminal AI activity define cybersecurity's new arms race.
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"We Will Be Fine"
A line-by-line breakdown of the most consequential AI interview in history — what Anthropic's CEO said, what he avoided, and what it means for AI…
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Who Really Controls Your AI?
Anthropic's ban reveals a critical vulnerability: any organisation depending on US AI risks political disruption overnight. What the UK and EU must do…
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When the Wind Farms Went Dark
Russian state actors deployed wiper malware across 30 Polish renewable facilities — the first destructive DER attack. UK net zero infrastructure faces…
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