Follow the Compute: where AI really goes

Five weeks, 23 posts, one chain from capital to defense, every number from a public filing.

Stop It. Let AI Defend Our Machines.

We are in a race we are losing. The only defender fast enough is the same technology attacking us.

Special Edition: What Anthropic's IPO Filing Says Could Go Wrong

Six risks from the S-1 in plain English, and what they mean for leaders running AI

My Letter to the President

I disagree with him on most things. On data centers, I think he is right, and I told him how to go further.

The Self Defending Computer

What if your computer could stop an attack, get its own software patched, and help protect every other computer running the same software?

The Bug You Never Have to Patch

AI is finding flaws faster than we can fix them. Cambridge has spent sixteen years on the other answer: hardware that makes whole classes of flaws impossible.

Bug Bounty is Dead!!!

AI now finds vulnerabilities faster than humans can fix them. The only answer is to let AI patch, under rules leaders write in advance.

37 New AI Laws Just Landed. Here Is What Actually Changed.

Reading the enrolled text so you don't have to.

California just licensed my profession. Two other headlines want to license yours out of existence.

SRJ Consulting & Services · AI governance, weekly

Special edition: A pause is not a pause. It is a decision about who continues.

SRJ Consulting & Services · The case for a national plan covering models, chips, and the power to run them

China Wrote 200 Rules. We Wrote 2,431 Bills.

The World of AI · August 27, 2026

The SOC doesn't get smaller. It gets emptier.

Why I argue in my upcoming book that the staffed security operations center is a transition, not a destination.

The Single Lawsuit That Could Reshape the Entire AI Industry

Why one federal court case may determine who gets to build the next generation of artificial intelligence.

Free Audit Reports, 416 Glossary Terms, and Volume III

The AI Audit opens in beta with the full report free for the first 100, a new Resources page goes live, and Volume III of the Library is available now.

Nobody Knows If the AI in Your Business Is Working. Including You.

The question executives cannot currently answer, and the discipline that closes it.

How to know if AI is actually working in your business

"What's inside"From baseline measurement to defensible decision, in five working components.

The 64 Point Gap Between Adopting AI and Managing It

Veeam research this week put a number on the gap between adopting AI and managing it, and the cost of operating without an audit.

You Are Not Behind on AI. You Are Running It Without a System.