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Also: Embedded AI in Pharmaceutical Sector, the Story Behind Apple's CEO ChangeIn this week's panel, four ISMG editors examine what’s really behind Apple's CEO transition, how pharmaceutical giants are racing to embed artificial intelligence across core operations, and why AI-driven threats are forcing a rethink of how quickly defenders can respond.

Acquisition Adds Advisory, GRC and Vulnerability Services to ImagineX's MDR CoreTekStream acquired ImagineX’s cyber division to integrate advisory, vulnerability management and GRC with its MDR services, aiming to help CISOs defend against faster, AI-driven attacks by unifying proactive and reactive security into a single operational model.

Okta's Shiven Ramji on Visibility, Identity and Hidden RiskEnterprises are rapidly deploying AI agents, but many don't know where they are or what they're accessing. Shiven Ramji of Okta explains why "shadow agents" are the next major security risk and how identity, visibility and governance must evolve to keep up.

Agencies Urged to Track and Disrupt Coordinated AI Extraction CampaignsThe White House is escalating coordination with AI firms after identifying large-scale foreign campaigns using proxy accounts and jailbreaking techniques to extract capabilities from U.S. models, raising national security concerns and prompting new detection, logging and accountability measures.

Recent Package Compromises Pushed Software Component Trust to the Security AgendaCloudsmith raised a $72 million Series C led by TCV to expand policy enforcement, auditability and real-time package risk analysis as CISOs focus more closely on software supply-chain threats tied to open-source dependencies, AI-assisted development and compromised artifacts.

AMA Wants Privacy, Security AI Tool Protections, Especially in Mental HealthThe American Medical Association says using artificial intelligence chatbots carries risks - including data privacy and security breaches - and the largest U.S. professional association for physicians and medical students is urging Congress to take action to protect patients from potential harm.

Pact Is Among Other Similar Biotech, AI Firm Collaborations to Speed Up Drug R&DMerck has struck a multi-year deal with Google Cloud worth up to $1 billion to enhance the pharmaceutical and life sciences giant's digital backbone "as an AI-enabled enterprise." The initiative includes deploying an agentic AI platform across R&D, manufacturing, commercial and corporate functions.

TrendAI's Tom Kellermann on Defending Against Agentic Attacks, APT CollaborationAI-driven threats now operate with speed, scale and persistence. Defenders need expanded telemetry, a global research team and an advanced XDR platform to predict and suppress adversaries defenders, said Tom Kellermann, vice president of AI security and threat intelligence at TrendAI.

AI Enthusiasts Haven't Used Model to Probe for Vulns, Source Tells BloombergAn unauthorized group of users gained access to Claude Mythos Preview artificial intelligence model and have regularly used it since the day that AI firm Anthropic revealed the model's existence while pronouncing it too dangerous to release to the public, reports Bloomberg.

French Vendor's QShield Offering Protects Edge Systems From Reverse EngineeringAircraft manufacturer Airbus plans to acquire 100-person French cybersecurity vendor Quarkslab to strengthen sovereign European defenses by protecting aerospace and defense software, data and edge systems from AI-driven reverse engineering and exploitation.

Overhaul, Restructuring Puts Cyber at Core of Digital WarfareDefense officials told House lawmakers the newly-released budget request positions cyber as a core warfighting domain, funding expanded offensive operations, AI-driven capabilities and a major Cyber Command overhaul as adversaries shift from espionage to pre-positioned disruptive attacks.

Lightweight LLM-Driven Process Alerted Elastic's Security Team, Says James SpiteriElastic Security Labs quickly spotted the unfolding supply-chain attack that backdoored the popular JavaScript library Axios, thanks to a lightweight, AI-driven tool a researcher created to assess if repository changes looked malicious. Elastic's James Spiteri says further use cases abound.

How We Talk About AI Says as Much About Human Cognition as It Does About ThemThe debate about AI consciousness misses the point. Asking better questions about what these systems are reveals as much about human thinking as about the technology itself.

Complaints Allege Tempus AI Lacked Consent to Use, Share Data With Pharma Cos.A healthcare artificial intelligence firm that sells genetic information from an acquired database holding the results of millions of screening tests faces multiple putative class action lawsuits in Chicago federal court. Genetic data resists attempts to de-identify it, plaintiffs say.

KPMG Survey Finds Organizations Must Transform Ops to Scale AIA new KPMG survey shows that while most enterprises have an AI strategy, only a small fraction are seeing real ROI. Enterprises getting it right are embedding AI into operations, governance and workforce development from the start.

Outsiders Could Exploit Misconfig to Stream Commands, CredentialsA misconfiguration in Microsoft's Azure SRE Agent may have allowed any Azure account holder from any company to tap into another organization's agent conversations in real time, watching commands, outputs and credentials, leaving no trace.

Attacker First Compromised AI Tool Used by Vercel Employee, Platform Provider FindsCloud platform provider Vercel said an attacker breached its systems and stole customer data after compromising a third-party agentic artificial intelligence tool used by an employee, called Context.ai, and stealing from it credentials and OAuth tokens tied to multiple services and customers.

Cisco's Jeetu Patel on How Machine-Speed Threats Drive Need for AI-Led SecurityCisco's Jeetu Patel explains how AI models are compressing exploit timelines to minutes, forcing a shift to machine-speed defense, real-time enforcement and deeper ecosystem collaboration to secure critical infrastructure and stay ahead of adversaries.