Posts tagged as “John Watters”

Retirement Could Wait. Cybercriminals Couldn’t

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Retirement Could Wait. Cybercriminals Couldn’t

By Deborah Yao on November 13, 2026

Former Mandiant President John Watters came out of retirement when he saw how fast AI could act - and reshape cybersecurity.

AWS Technologist: How to Strategically Cut AI Coding Costs by Up to 80%
AWS Technologist: How to Strategically Cut AI Coding Costs by Up to 80%
By Deborah Yao
Laura Tacho said combining techniques lead to the biggest savings. But be careful about using developer leaderboards.
Health Insurers Use AI to Process Claims. Why Not Help Users Pick Better Plans?
Health Insurers Use AI to Process Claims. Why Not Help Users Pick Better Plans?
By Pete Mannix
An opinion piece by the chief product and technology officer of SureCo
Using Physics-Based AI to Help Robots Learn With Less Data
Using Physics-Based AI to Help Robots Learn With Less Data
By Deborah Yao
Former Cornell professor Ashutosh Saxena leaned on two decades of robotics AI research to found TorqueAGI.
Not Every Job Needs a Genius: The 4 Levels of AI Intelligence
Not Every Job Needs a Genius: The 4 Levels of AI Intelligence
By Furkat Kasimov
An opinion piece by the founder of London venture studio AppLayerAI
Can AI Be Made ‘Super’ Reliable? This Professor Says Yes
Can AI Be Made ‘Super’ Reliable? This Professor Says Yes
By Deborah Yao
UC Berkeley professor Dan Klein, who's on his third startup, says businesses need AI they can trust to always follow the rules.
Why AI Products Might Miss the Mark
Why AI Products Might Miss the Mark
By Ankit Roy
An opinion piece by a senior product leader at a Big Tech company
Salesforce SVP on How to Keep AI Agents From Quietly Going Rogue
Salesforce SVP on How to Keep AI Agents From Quietly Going Rogue
By Deborah Yao
Andrew Comstock said AI agents are harder to manage than traditional software because they can adapt – and drift.
EY: How to Transform AI from Cost Cutter to Growth Engine
EY: How to Transform AI from Cost Cutter to Growth Engine
By Deborah Yao
EY’s Malinda Gentry explains what companies must do to turn AI from mostly a cost-cutting tool into a driver of revenue growth.
Anthropic IPO Filing Reveals Scale of Frontier AI Economics
Anthropic IPO Filing Reveals Scale of Frontier AI Economics
By The AI Innovator Team
Anthropic's filing also reveals an unusual governance structure.
Principal Financial’s CDAO on Building an AI-Ready Workforce of 20,000
Principal Financial’s CDAO on Building an AI-Ready Workforce of 20,000
By Deborah Yao
Rajesh Arora explains how the Fortune 500 company built a methodical program to teach all employees how to understand and use AI.
How Creator-Owned AI Film Companies Are Taking On Hollywood
How Creator-Owned AI Film Companies Are Taking On Hollywood
By Ginger Liu
An opinion piece by the founder and CEO of Ginger Media and Entertainment
From AI Experiments to Operational Adoption in Telecom
From AI Experiments to Operational Adoption in Telecom
By Conal Higgins
An opinion piece by the vice president and field CTO of GTM Telecommunications at NewRocket

AI Coding Agents Can Delete Evidence of What They Did
By Jeremy Qin, David Schmotz, Derck Prinzhorn et al on September 30, 2026
German researchers said most AI models they tested failed to guard against hackers telling them to erase records of their actions.
The Gap Between ML Research and Deployment: What Actually Breaks
By Disha Patel on June 23, 2026
An opinion piece by a software engineer and machine learning researcher at Apple (views are her own)
A Novel AI Model That Makes Instant, Expert-level Decisions Without Heavy Computation
By Josiah Kiok on April 23, 2026
It is 100x faster than other agents and performs at nearly a human expert level - while minimizing costs.
Agents of Chaos: A New Category of Enterprise AI Risk
By Natalie Shapira, Chris Wendler, Avery Yen and others on April 2, 2026
Researchers from some of the world's best universities believe AI agents are not ready to be deployed in the real world.
The Often Missing Skill in the AI Boom
By Deborah Yao on March 20, 2026
Metacognition is key to enhancing employee creativity, which leads to long-term competitive advantage.