...Microsoft was previously providing vulnerability information and proof-of-concept exploits for those vulnerabilities in systems and software used by American and allied defense contractors' corporate networks and to utility OT networks to a foreign government before patches were widely deployed among those American and allied countries' networks.

Competition from China
Way too many rules that make it nearly impossible to make anything

Run Away!
I don't want to pay a subscription to "upload multiple documents into PDF spaces"

If I was interested in home automation, I would not want voice activation
I would want standardized, open protocols and a rich ecosystem of interoperable devices that operate locally, WITHOUT THE CLOUD!

..."High-Stakes Scenarios" without cross checking and verifying deserves what they get

Real progress is slow and uneven
Progress sometimes leads to profit, or not
Progress sometimes makes things better, but not necessarily more profitable
Salesweasels sell immature tech and promise extraordinary profit
Clueless managers and executives believe the hype
Investors panic when the profit doesn't magically appear quickly
Meanwhile, people learn to use the new tools. Sometimes they find the tools useful, sometimes not
The tools keep improving

Give them access to AI and time to learn how to use it effectively

Endless growth is impossible, we need steady state sustainability

The headline assumes that "no measurable impact on P&L" = failure
This is a symptom of a bigger problem, the idea that everything about a business can be reduced to measurable numbers
I suspect that AI tools will help some workers a bit and help others a lot, while annoying or impeding others
As for me, I find AI tools to be very useful in the work I do. It doesn't write my code or design my circuit, but it helps me find answers in difficult documentation

How else are you going to protect them from the terrible secret of space?

In one of Bruce Sterling's books set in one of those 20-minutes-in-the-future sorts of settings, there were AI phone systems that worked fine and were cheap, right up until they stopped working and then it was just easier to junk-and-replace them rather than trying to fix them.

Since AI seems to rely very heavily on 'training' off of existing content, if the unlucky scenario of training happens to coincide with a disproportionate amount of phishing attacks that seems like a sadly possible outcome.

Yeah, I'm still not sold that the move from the mainframe model was the correct one.

I watched an AS/400 (technically i-series by the end) run through various platform iterations for around fifteen years before being replaced with other solutions, and in the five years I watched them struggle with those other solutions for finance, payroll, timekeeping, and other back-end business functions, that AS/400 just did those without a whole lot of fuss. Sure, it meant that users had to get in via terminal emulator and to tab-through fields to do their data entry, but those clerical staff that had the capability to learn how to do that were really goddamn fast when it came to doing data entry and records retrieval.

Every post-AS/400 solution required mousing through multiple menus and waiting for retrieval and rendering of pages. Things took ten times as long, and were arguably even worse than experiments with HTML rendering for AS/400 forms to try to bring them into the modern-ish era.

Especially when the prediction is made by someone with a financial or political motive
Predictions are hard, especially about the future, which is becoming increasingly unpredictable

I created an account years ago out of curiosity
I never got anything of value from it, but I started getting emails with job offers totally unrelated to my talents and interests

I'm reminded of a joke meme...

Interviewer starts, "so it states here on your resume that you can do multiplication very, very fast. So what's 131x467?"

The applicant replies, "76,543!"

The interviewer objects, "that isn't even close to right!"

The applicant responds, "well, it was very, very fast!"