Jake Martens

If you follow AI at all, you know the leaderboards. Every few weeks a model takes the top spot, and we all check where our favorite landed. But a leaderboard only tells you who's ahead, and it stays quiet about where any of those models still come up short. Which, conveniently, is the part that…

Key Takeaways A few weeks ago, Mira Murati's lab, Thinking Machines, put out a research preview of something they're calling interaction models. If you haven't seen it, it's worth your time. This is a serious effort from serious people, the kind of lab that trains a 276-billion-parameter model from scratch and stands up a whole…

Field CISO work is closer to courtship than sales. And what I mean by that is, by the time a CISO has an urgent project, the field of trusted vendors has already been chosen, which means the year before the buying moment is the entire game. The most underused word in cybersecurity is courtship. We…

Key Takeaways The single most repeated piece of advice in security leadership is also the one doing the most damage to the profession. Earn your seat at the table. Become a business translator. Integrate into the operator class. The CISOs who follow that advice end up burned out, legally exposed, and stuck in five-jobs-in-one roles…

Everyone is catastrophizing about AI-powered attacks. Here's the contrarian case, and why the window is narrower than it looks. TL;DR: The prevailing narrative at Black Hat 2025 was that AI has made attackers unstoppable. The most credentialed voice in the room said the opposite, and the data backs him up. The Mythos release through Project…

The AI security industry is calling 2025 the new 1990s. The uncomfortable truth is that we predicted every mistake we're making right now — and made them anyway. TL;DR: AI security in 2025 is repeating the same structural mistakes that made the early internet a golden age for hackers — not because the industry forgot…