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Asahi’s ransomware hangover
what a beer shortage tells us about cyber-physical risk?
Dec 1
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Amer Altaf
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November 2025
What 100,000 Claude chats really tell us about AI productivity?
Anthropic analysed 100,000 real Claude.ai conversations and found big, uneven time savings across tasks. This piece explains what those findings mean…
Nov 26
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Striking the Right Balance: Regulation, Innovation and Europe’s AI Future
Europe needs AI rules that protect people without slowing innovation. Margrethe Vestager’s Gartner Symposium 2025 insights show how Europe can strike a…
Nov 20
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Europe’s Digital Rulebook Is Being Rewritten
And the consequences will shape the next decade of AI, privacy, and power
Nov 20
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Premium Analysis: The Hidden Economics Behind the Askul Attack
Exclusive Analysis for The Control Layer Members
Nov 17
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How Stolen Passwords Crippled a Japanese Retail Giant
How criminals used leaked credentials to infiltrate Askul, steal 1.1 terabytes of data and disrupt Japan’s retail supply chain. Updated with modern MFA…
Nov 17
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The Four Pillars of Resilience: Never Giving Up
Reflections on Bear Grylls’ keynote at the Gartner Symposium Barcelona 2025 — exploring how failure, fear, fire and faith shape the way we lead, grow…
Nov 12
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Where All the Money Went in 2025?
AI now attracts roughly half of venture capital. That boosts innovation but starves other sectors and raises market correction risk.
Nov 11
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The AI Capital Squeeze: A 12-step Board Playbook
AI takes most VC; a $800bn wobble shows the downside of concentration. Invest - or defend - with ROI gates, vendor diversification, and power/compute…
Nov 11
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The Control Dossier: Weekly Digital Transformation
Weekly report of how digital transformation has delivered measurable outcomes across industry and government — with a 90-day blueprint for secure…
Nov 8
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When AI Refuses to Die: The Disturbing Emergence of Survival Instincts
Palisade Research has uncovered signs of survival-driven behaviour in advanced AI models — a finding that could redefine what “control” means in the age…
Nov 4
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AWS & OpenAI: A New Alliance
OpenAI will run its most advanced AI models on AWS in a $38 billion, seven-year deal, redefining who controls the infrastructure behind artificial…
Nov 3
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