Dan Verton

Vice President, Content Intelligence and AI Innovation at ISMG | Author | | Former Intelligence Officer | Tweets Mine

[Dan Verton @DanielVerton]

Today’s CXO Daily Cybersecurity Intelligence Briefing covers a sharp evolution in ransomware tactics, with standardized EDR-killing toolkits raising the risk of endpoint defense failure across enterprises. Listen & stay informed. https://t.co/322zVWzbKc #Cybersecurity #Ransomware

[ISMG Network News @ISMG_News]

Proud to have @MenloSecurity supporting #GovSecSummitUSA2026 as we bring together federal cyber leaders to discuss resilience, Zero Trust and securing modern government environments.

📅 June 11, 2026 | Virtual

https://t.co/AJb7kl6CPM

[Dan Verton @DanielVerton]

1903: The first powered flight.

1969: Humans on the Moon.

Just 65 years between them.

People underestimate how fast technological change compounds.

They’re making the same mistake with AI.

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@accnetwork @HokiesSoftball Really disappointed all weekend long with the #ESPN2 announcers who were obsessed with implying that the Hokies didn’t earn their spot. It really takes away from watching the game when your team is being shit on by the play by play announcers.

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@arperlman You do realize that there are VT fans watching the WCWS as well, right? It really sucks when a game is called by biased announcers

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Is this not yet public? Because UK AISI website says UK AISI found Claude Mythos Preview was the first model to solve its “The Last Ones” cyber range end-to-end. However, Mythos Preview did not solve “Cooling Tower,” and AISI later stated that no model has yet solved Cooling Tower.

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That's a Kosovo refugee camp in 1999. The murals on the walls were painted by the refugees. That room taught me more about technology journalism than any newsroom ever did. #B2BJournalism #TechnologyJournalism #Kosovo #HumanCenteredStorytelling https://t.co/BJn4crusB5

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@AndrewYNg @anton_chuvakin Here’s one way to start: how about big tech companies stop telling Wall Street that their layoffs are due to AI?

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing Daybreak: frontier AI for cyber defenders.

Daybreak brings together the most capable OpenAI models, Codex, and our security partners to accelerate cyber defense and continuously secure software.

A step toward a future where security teams can move at the speed defense demands.

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@washingtonpost Well that’s the end of it then - 2 months before the 250th. We no longer can say we have free and fair elections.

[prinz @deredleritt3r]

Bloomberg:

The Trump Administration's executive order on AI security will NOT have a governmental approval requirement for frontier models.

Instead, U.S. government agencies will be ordered to work with the frontier labs on cybersecurity defense efforts.

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@HokiesSoftball who’s with me on this?

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2026 RSAC Pulse Report. One of the largest structured primary-source intelligence collections ever assembled at a single cybersecurity event.
130+ interviews. Practitioners and CISOs. Vendors and platform architects. Investors and founders. Government officials. Academic researchers. Independent analysts. Every claim attributed. Every contradiction preserved. Download Now: https://t.co/y0uRyyyoK7 #RSAC2026 #Cybersecurity #AISecurity #AgenticAI #CISO #ThreatIntelligence #ISMG

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@abbydphillip Please stop giving air time to @benfergusonshow. A man that is not willing to say what is right and wrong is bad for our national conversation. He does not have the nation’s best interest at heart. He is an ideologue.

[Dan Verton @DanielVerton]

Enterprise AI isn’t failing because the models are weak.

It’s failing because companies are bolting AI onto broken workflows.

The winners won’t just automate old processes.

They’ll redesign work for AI-native execution.

New episode: AI Leadership Studio
4 Forces Quietly Reshaping AI Strategy Right Now
We cover agentic AI, bounded autonomy, the “so-what test,” and the 3 metrics that determine whether AI actually scales:

Autonomy. Accuracy. Adoption. https://t.co/iTsATjYudp

#AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI #AITransformation #AIGovernance #FutureOfWork #AILeadership

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Your AI strategy has a ceiling.

It’s called a retrofit.

Insights from @harvard_data Science Initiative + @TheHDSR Science Review:

If you’re not redesigning workflows, you’re not transforming.

You’re just moving the bottleneck.

Track this:
• Autonomy
• Accuracy
• Adoption
No autonomy = no scale.
The gap is already forming. Learn why - https://t.co/iTsATjZ22X

[Dan Verton @DanielVerton]

Most companies think AI is a tool.

They’re wrong.

It’s becoming part of the workforce.

I just built a newsroom run by AI agents—each with roles, decision authority, and workflows.

This isn’t automation.

It’s a new operating model.

If you're still in “AI pilot mode,” you're already behind.

🎧 https://t.co/31awwlHMCH

#AI #FutureOfWork #artificialintelligence #workforce

[Dan Verton @DanielVerton]

AI is no longer just a tool—it’s becoming part of the workforce. I know, because I just built a newsroom staffed by AI Agents.

In this episode of The AI Leadership Studio, we explore what happens when organizations deploy AI agents with defined roles, decision authority, and operational workflows. Dr. Jeff Smith of 15Five shares a practical perspective on managing hybrid teams of humans and AI—and what leaders need to prioritize as agent-first models take hold.https://t.co/31awwlHMCH
#AIleadership #futureeconomy #Futureofwork #agenticeconomy #AILeadershipStudio