Cyberwarfare, Artificial Intelligence and the Revolution We Cannot See I gave a talk inside a castle. That is not a metaphor. It happened for real, at the Castello di Palazzo di Assisi,…

The Weekend Piece The letter that follows is brief. The form is old. Older than corporate self-improvement by about nineteen centuries. Marcus Aurelius wrote his to himself on a campaign tent on…

On the Need for Another Mind Adrian de Wynter, a Microsoft researcher, has just released a paper whose title alone would be worth the price of admission: If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes,…

Brussels Reinvents the Door There are certain dates, in the long calendar of European Union legislation, that should be celebrated with confetti, marching bands, and a small civic moment of silence for…

European Digital Sovereignty, and the Pattern of Consolation Prizes On June 9, 2026, Anthropic announced Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, presented as the "with safeguards built-in" versions of its frontier…

The 2025 IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report records a global average breach cost of 4.44 million dollars, with United States organisations now averaging 10.22 million dollars per incident, an all-time…

The headline statistic about enterprise IT transformation, in 2026, is a number that has not meaningfully changed in twelve years. Seventy percent of declared transformation projects fail to deliver their stated objectives.…

#IlSole24Ore is, openly, one of the very few Italian newspapers I still bother to read. Owned by Confindustria, the Italian employers' federation, and you can tell. But it writes about the economy…

The Day European Digital Sovereignty Convened to Discuss a Model It Cannot Access ....and don't say I didn't warn you. On Tuesday, May 26, 2026, the European Central Bank convenes a meeting…

Why the Attacker's AI Has Already Taken the Human Out of the Loop The defender, in 2026, has artificial intelligence with a human in the loop. The attacker, in 2026, has artificial…