On the afternoon of 27 February 2026, Pete Hegseth picked up his phone and posted to X. The US Secretary of Defense had just designated Anthropic, a San Francisco AI company, a “supply chain risk to national security.” The label, under 10 USC 3252, had…
On 19 November 2025, the European Commission published its Digital Omnibus package, a legislative proposal to amend the AI Act, the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, the Data Act, and several cybersecurity frameworks in a single stroke. The word “simplific…
AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge launched an open-source platform called Gas Town. It lets u…
The drug discovery revolution is real but radically overstated, the health chatbots are a documented hazard, and the diseases that matter most remain stubbornly unsolved. At Novartis, sometime in late 2025, a team of researchers working on Huntington’s…
Marceu Martins has spent 25 years working in parts of technology where failure is not abstract. In the systems he designs, a 1% error is not a minor defect or an acceptable edge case. It represents systemic …
The case for AI prescription renewals is real. So is the case against trusting a state sandbox to catch the risks. In January, a security research firm called Mindgard sat down with a chatbot. The chatbot had been built by Doctronic, a health technolog…
The Iran war is not making cloud suddenly expensive. It is exposing how cloud economics was always downstream from energy markets, and Europe is structurally exposed. The current conflict in the Middle East is no longer contained to the region. Its eff…
Fortis Solutions, an enterprise technology partner with decades of experience across infrastructure, cybersecurity, and data systems, approaches artificial intelligence as a force that is redefining how work is performed while preserving the importance…