Cognition has raised $1B at a $26B valuation, led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC. Its autonomous AI engineer Devin now writes 89% of the company's own code and is deployed at Mercedes-Benz, Goldman Sachs, the U.S. Navy, and Itaú.
Anthropic has cracked the door on Mythos, its most powerful AI model, but Australia’s biggest banks and critical infrastructure players are still waiting in line, managing fast escalating cyber risks without direct access to the tool built to expose them.
NVIDIA launches the Isaac GR00T open humanoid robot platform and positions DRIVE Hyperion as the global robotaxi standard, signalling the decisive shift from digital AI to physical intelligence.
Cyber attacks are no longer just data grabs. They are strategic tools of economic warfare. From factory sabotage to stolen identities and regulatory pressure, these breaches now aim to destabilize industries, drain trust, and reshape global power. The cost is not just money. It is control.
Manufacturing is the top cyberattack target, with 25.7% of global incidents. Ransomware fuels 71% of attacks, costing millions. Digital transformation with AI and IoT boosts efficiency but widens vulnerabilities, making production lines battlefields of economic warfare.
Nations are now waging war with code, not missiles. Chapter 3 of The Digital Siege explores how China’s cyber espionage, rising attacks on infrastructure, and ransomware campaigns mark a new era of economic warfare. Democracies scramble to respond while authoritarian regimes act at scale.
As tech moguls pour billions into AI, cybercriminals are close behind—building dark AI like WormGPT to automate attacks. Chapter 2 of The Digital Siege reveals how this escalating arms race, fueled by open-source models and geopolitical tension, is redefining global cybersecurity.
Cybercrime now targets people, not just systems. Chapter 1 exposes how hackers exploited human error at Marks and Spencer, triggering a £300 million breach. As AI adoption rises, trust and identity become the new battlegrounds—and our greatest vulnerability.
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