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KPMG Survey Finds Organizations Must Transform Ops to Scale AI
A 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.

The European Union Is Cutting Ties With US Tech Companies
The European Commission made a significant move towards "digital sovereignty" by awarding a 180 million euro - approximately $213 million - cloud contract to a quartet of European providers. The deal will allow the commission and the EU Parliament and council to procure sovereign cloud services.

UPGRADE and DigiSeals Programs at ARPA-H Remain Fully Funded
A U.S. federal grant effort to develop autonomous medical device patching platforms for hospitals evaded the budget-cutting knife of the Trump administration. Program boosters hope to automate cyber defenses so that hospitals of any size can more quickly patch vulnerabilities.

Officials Warned New Models Could Accelerate Cyber Risks Faster Than Rules
Global finance officials meeting in Washington warned that advanced artificial intelligence models could expose structural weaknesses across banking and payment systems, speeding vulnerability discovery and cyber exploitation faster than regulators can build guardrails.

Tyler Buchanan Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Identity Theft
A senior figure in the Scattered Spider cybercrime group pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft on Friday in US federal district court. The plea marks the conclusion of a digital crime spree by Tyler Robert Buchanan.

How We Respond Will Determine the Future Of Cybersecurity and the Digital World
The introduction of Anthropic's Mythos model signals a shift in the cybersecurity industry - one not yet fully understood, which prompted Project Glasswing: a coordinated group of ecosystem partners who have been given early access to this capability to define impending future threats before they hit.

Equifax CTO Jamil Farshchi on Cybersecurity's Response to Flood of Vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity organizations must adapt to machine-speed threats in the age of Anthropic's Claude Mythos, a new AI model that can uncover vulnerabilities and lead to a flood of repaid exploits. Equifax CTO Jamil Farshchi says security programs must be built for scale, automation and quick response.

Bank of America, Citi and Goldman Anchor Partner Cohort for OpenAI's GPT-5.4-Cyber
OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program prioritizes financial institutions to drive adoption of GPT-5.4-Cyber in regulated environments, highlighting a split with Anthropic’s developer-centric, tech-heavy partnerships and raising questions about partnership value and data-sharing models.

CISA Acting Director Says Major Staffing Gaps Are Weakening Federal Network Defense
The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the administration's fiscal year $2.5 billion budget request reflects mounting strain from workforce shortages and shutdown disruptions that have reduced staffing to 40% in recent months.

Also, Eurail Breach, ChipSoft Hospital Disruptions, W3LL Phishing Takedown
This week, a "Raccoon"-linked actor hit help desks, Eurail exposed 308K users, Fortinet patched critical flaws, Pushpaganda scams, major data leaks hit healthcare and China, ransomware and phishing ops surged, and multiple breaches impacted firms and hospitals.

Also: ZachXBT Uncovers DPRK Worker Scam, Hyperbridge Hack, Coinone Fine
This week, Operation Atlantic disrupts $45M phishing fraud, ZachXBT uncovers DPRK crypto worker scheme, Hyperbridge exploit, South Korea fines Coinone $3.5M, Kraken faces extortion attempt over insider data leak and American musician loses $420K in fake Ledger app.

Ising Model Family Targets Calibration, Error Correction at Scale
Nvidia released what it calls the world's first family of open AI models built to reduce errors in quantum computers in a bid to tackle problems blocking the technology's path to practical use. Nvidia is focusing on software, AI models and tools that work alongside quantum hardware.

SANS Institute and Cloud Security Alliance Leaders on the Coming Vulnerability Storm
In the latest Proof of Concept, SANS and Cloud Security Alliance leaders join ISMG editors to discuss how the storm clouds of Claude Mythos could upend cyber defenses by compressing time to exploit, and why vulnerability management, risk models and security operations must change.

Tech Companies Offer 'Fully Sovereign Disaster Recovery Pack'
Four European tech companies have banded together to provide a "fully sovereign disaster recovery pack" for companies in the region that want to hedge against the much-discussed possibility of the U.S. flipping the kill switch on its tech. This stack can be immediately deployed on-premises.

Playbook Aims to Help Healthcare, Public Sector Manage AI Vendor Security Gaps
The Health Sector Coordinating Council released guidance to help the healthcare and public health sector better manage the explosion of third-party AI vendor cyber risk concerns they face, especially as the technology is embedded in all sorts of products.

Critics Call Foreign-Made Router Ban 'Industrial Policy Disguised As Cybersecurity'
Netgear obtained a temporary waiver from the Federal Communications Commission allowing it to continue importing consumer routers through most of 2027, making the networking hardware giant the first consumer brand to circumvent a ban on foreign-made hardware.

Felicis-Led Series A Backs Telemetry Correlation Across Cloud, Identity, Endpoints
Artemis, a New York startup led by former Amazon GuardDuty product leader Shachar Hirshberg, emerged from stealth with $70 million to build an AI-driven SIEM alternative that correlates telemetry across enterprise environments, tailors detections and speeds investigations.