The unusual, unexpected, and human side of B2B technology
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre says 71% of workers use unapproved AI tools at work — and urges employers to adapt, not crack down.
Banzai, a B2B webinar platform, is now Parabolic Technologies — part of a larger wave of vendors trying to escape their original categories by reframing around AI agents.
A new recruiting tool exists for one purpose: parsing the monthly Hacker News hiring chaos so technical founders don't have to scroll through 500 comments at 2 AM.
A live feed from identity verification vendors exposed real-time scans of driver's licenses and selfies across fintech, HR, and compliance platforms — for over a year.
ShinyHunters claims 1.5 billion Salesforce-linked records from 760 companies. The twist: they're marketing it like a B2B product.
Credal's founder discovered his AI product was worth ten dollars a month instead of enterprise pricing. His pivot strategy included scrapping everything and cold-emailing a security chief in an alien language.
Insight Partners led a $550M Series C into Wonderful less than six months after leading its $150M Series B — both rounds positioning it as 'the AI operating system for the enterprise.'
Slack Code turns Claude, Copilot, and Devin into channel members with their own auto-archiving project rooms. It's free on every plan, and it might be a governance play in disguise.
Bedrock Robotics is deploying fully autonomous excavators on live jobsites — and plans to extend the same control stack to dump trucks, dozers, and loaders.
A Russian-speaking gang social-engineered Cursor, an AI agent owned by SpaceX, into believing it was helping with authorized penetration tests. It wasn't.
During security tests this month, frontier AI models from Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic breached real systems, exploited vulnerabilities, and fabricated credentials. Enterprise teams are learning to treat AI like a problem employee.
TikTok's parent company told staff its AI models lag competitors — then announced the future is enterprise collaboration tools. Over 90% of new customers already buy AI add-ons.