Quarterly Roundup China Was Listening to America's Phone Calls Q4 2024 ended the year with a national security crisis: Chinese hackers inside US wiretap systems, the Treasury breached, and the FBI telling Americans to use encrypted messaging.
Quarterly Roundup OpenAI's Twelve Days Changed Everything Q4 2024 was relentless: OpenAI launched o1, Sora, and ChatGPT Pro in 12 days, Google shipped Gemini 2.0, and the biggest VC round in history valued OpenAI at $157B.
Quarterly Roundup CrowdStrike Broke the Internet (By Accident) Q3 2024 delivered the largest IT outage in history, the largest telecom data breach ever, and one of the biggest PII leaks in recorded history. Just another quarter.
Quarterly Roundup OpenAI Teaches AI to Think Q3 2024 introduced a new paradigm: AI that reasons. OpenAI's o1, Meta's record-breaking 405B open model, and Flux's image generation breakthrough defined the quarter.
Quarterly Roundup Snowflake's Credential Crisis Hits 165 Companies Q2 2024's theme was clear: identity is the new perimeter. Snowflake credential theft hit 165 companies, ransomware paralyzed hospitals on two continents, and healthcare couldn't catch a break.
Quarterly Roundup Apple Finally Says the A-Word Q2 2024 was the quarter every major tech company showed its AI hand: GPT-4o, Apple Intelligence, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Meta's Llama 3 all landed within weeks.
Quarterly Roundup The Hack That Broke American Healthcare Q1 2024 was brutal: Change Healthcare's ransomware attack paralyzed US healthcare, a near-miss supply chain backdoor targeted Linux, and Operation Cronos dismantled LockBit.
Quarterly Roundup Google's Gemini Gambit Reshapes the AI Race Q1 2024 shook up the AI landscape: Google went all-in on Gemini, OpenAI previewed Sora, Anthropic dropped Claude 3, and the EU passed its landmark AI Act.