The AI arms race hits finance.

The Treasury Secretary and Fed Chair summon bankers over AI concerns. A hacker claims more than 10 petabytes stolen from China’s National Supercomputing Center. Recalibrating the quantum timeline. Researchers demo prompt injection against Apple Intelligence. Payroll Pirates target Canadians. Gmail gets end-to-end encryption on mobile devices. A Chrome update fixes critical vulnerabilities. A Pennsylvania cop admits creating more than 3,000 AI-generated pornographic deepfakes. Our guest is Henry Comfort, Co-Founder and CEO of Geordie AI, winner of this year’s RSAC Innovation Sandbox. FCC floats firmer filters for fraudulent phone calls.

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Today, Dave shares coverage of the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox and his conversation with Henry Comfort, Co-Founder and CEO from the winner of “Most Innovative Startup” Geordie AI. We tip our hats to this year’s finalists.

Selected Reading

Bessent and Powell’s A.I. Anxiety (The New York Times)

Court Backs Pentagon Anthropic Ban - But the Fight Continues (GovInfo Security)

A hacker has allegedly breached one of China’s supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data (CNN)

Why is the timeline to quantum-proof everything constantly shrinking? (CyberScoop)

Microsoft: Canadian employees targeted in payroll pirate attacks (Bleeping Computer)

Google rolls out Gmail end-to-end encryption on mobile devices (Bleeping Computer)

Chrome 147 Patches 60 Vulnerabilities, Including Two Critical Flaws Worth $86,000 (SecurityWeek)

Police corporal created AI porn from driver's license pics (Ars Technica)

FCC proposes new rule to further crackdown on illegal robocalls (The Record)

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