AI Is Finding Vulnerabilities We Missed for 20 Years
AI agents are beginning to find their own way through systems to achieve the goals we give them. https://www.firetail.ai After an OpenAI agent escaped its evaluation environment and compromised Hugging Face, I spoke with FireTail founder Jeremy Snyder to understand what is changing. Jeremy has spent nearly 30 years in cybersecurity.
We explore why AI can uncover vulnerabilities traditional penetration testing missed, what happens when agents encounter security constraints, why 180-day patch cycles may no longer be viable, and how cheaper open-weight models could change the economics of cyber attacks. We also look inside the enterprise: shadow AI, the EU AI Act, sovereignty, hybrid AI architectures, and how FireTail itself is already running 25 agents across a 13-person company.
The question underneath all of it is becoming increasingly important: What happens when “secure enough” is no longer enough?
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The Chinese AI Question Nobody Can Avoid
AI is getting cheaper, open models are getting better, and China is changing the economics of the global AI race. But as intelligence becomes more widely available, who actually stays in control? Eight months after our first conversation, I sit down again with Red Hat’s Jonny Williams to examine what has changed.
We explore Chinese open-weight AI models, OpenAI and Anthropic, the shift from AI training to inference, the enormous investment in GPUs and data centres, and what AI sovereignty really means for the UK. As models become increasingly interchangeable, value may be moving elsewhere: into proprietary data, compute, infrastructure, energy and the applications built on top.
That creates difficult questions for governments and businesses about dependency, resilience, regulation and who can ultimately “pull the plug”.
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Your Employees Are Already Ahead Of Your Organisation
Artificial intelligence is changing people faster than organisations can adapt. This investigation explores why that matters, how it is reshaping the way companies operate, and why the next competitive advantage may have less to do with technology than an organisation’s ability to redesign itself.
For decades, organisations have been built around the capabilities of people. Today, individuals can build products, automate workflows and solve problems in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago. But while capability has accelerated, many organisational structures, governance models and decision-making processes have not.
Drawing on the insights of technology strategist Alfonso Ferrandez, alongside industry research and real-world examples, this documentary investigates how AI is changing who gets to build, why governance has become the new bottleneck, what it really means to become AI-native, and why productivity alone may be the wrong objective.
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Why More People Are Starting To Build - Ian Sutherland
For decades, turning an idea into a product required funding, developers, technical expertise and a team. Today, that barrier is beginning to disappear. In this episode of BASELINE, former Tide CFO Ian Sutherland shares how a career break after helping scale Tide from less than $1 million to more than $200 million in revenue led him to an unexpected discovery: modern AI tools had dramatically reduced the distance between an idea and a working product.
We explore why more people are starting to build, how AI is changing entrepreneurship, what it means for startups and investors, and why some of the most interesting products of the next decade may come from people who understand the problem rather than those who simply know how to code.
Topics include AI-assisted software development, Claude Code, angel investing, startup economics, productivity, the future of work, niche software businesses, venture capital, and the changing relationship between expertise and execution.
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Why 93% of Enterprise AI Projects Miss the Point - Sol Enenmoh
Artificial intelligence is no longer just changing productivity tools. Inside large enterprises, banks and global institutions, AI and AI governance are beginning to reshape how organisations coordinate, decide and operate.
In this episode, former HSBC AI transformation lead Sol Enenmoh explores the growing tension between traditional enterprise structures and computational systems evolving at machine speed. From governance and organisational silos to agentic systems, AI literacy and sovereign infrastructure, this conversation examines what may become one of the defining transitions of the next decade:
What happens when enterprises are no longer structured around humans coordinating work… but around computational systems coordinating humans?
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