After Microsoft's historic Mega Patch Tuesday, enterprise IT teams worldwide are scrambling as a wave of updates triggers system meltdowns, broken domains, and silent Excel failures. Find out how AI-driven speed collided with real-world chaos.

• Andrew Ng weighs-in on AI Doomsaying.
• The wisdom of outsourcing AI security testing.
• The true risk of an AI-created bioweapon.
• The EU KIDS Act -- this one is even messier.
• "Nightmare Eclipse" finally unmasks himself.
• A whitehat firm used Claude to attack OpenAI.
• Cisco's own massive 77 CVE update.
• What was the fallout from Sept's Patch Tuesday

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code?

• The full report on last week's nearly 1,000 Microsoft security fixes.
• Five months after its start, what's the status of Project Glasswing?
• Anthropic's rogue agent escape count reaches four incidents.
• Not to be outdone, OpenAI's count passes 10 and maybe as many as 23!
• Revisiting California's DROP compulsory data broker data deletion.
• Russian criminals get their hands on more than 153 million drivers license scans.
• "Skynet" is the wrong model for the end of the world. The right model is The Krell

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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