Earlier this year, a US export-control directive took Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline for every customer worldwide, with no warning and no transition window. Access returned 19 days later, but the chats and tokens lost in between did not. Max, Cody, Seth and Aidan work through what that means for anyone whose daily workflow now runs through a single AI vendor. Also in this episode: the AI exclusions that are quietly starting to appear in commercial security policies, plus a high-profile data breach that impacted nearly 7 million people.

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In this episode, Max, Cody, Seth and Aidan discuss the Pentagon’s suspension of CMMC Phase 2 that puts third-party assessments on hold and gives a reform task force 60 days to report back. They also tell their “welcome to cybersecurity” stories and make some inaugural inductions into the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame.

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