Craig Peterson's Tech Talk

Anthropic has released an AI model built specifically for cybersecurity work, and it's already turning up major, remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities in every operating system researchers have pointed it at — Linux, BSD-based systems, and Windows alike. Craig's read: this kicks off roughly a year, maybe longer, of an arms race. Vendors patch what the AI finds; attackers reverse-engineer those same patches to hit anyone who hasn't applied them yet. The part people miss, Craig says, is that Windows Update only covers Windows itself — not the other software sitting on the same computer. That's the gap his newsletter is built to close, and it's also the idea behind a new tool he's building called Assure, which checks a computer against whatever attacks are actively happening right now, rather than waiting for a scheduled patch cycle. Also in this segment: Apple bringing on a new executive to lead its AI push, and why Craig thinks Apple's strategy of leasing AI from OpenAI and Anthropic — rather than building its