AI and quantum technologies present both opportunity and risk: they can dramatically improve companies' capabilities and accuracy, but they also create an entirely new, expansive threat landscape. Even if your company is in a less technical industry, these threats are still present—and have the potential for massive harm to your business and customers.

I spoke with Andrew McLaughlin, chief operating officer of SandboxAQ, about how CIOs should face and address these threats. And while companies are very different, the answer to dealing with the threat is the same: know what’s happening on your network. An excerpt from our conversation is later in this newsletter.

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OpenAI has been practically synonymous with the generative AI revolution in the U.S., but it could be in trouble. The Wall Street Journal reported that the company missed its own targets for new users and revenue, raising concerns from its CFO that it may not be able to pay for future computing contracts without faster revenue growth. OpenAI has racked up several infrastructure deals in the last year, reportedly planning to spend $600 billion on compute by 2030.

The report hit the tech sector like a brick, and calls into question the company’s long-talked-about plans to IPO later this year. OpenAI disputes the report, with spokesperson Steve Sharpe telling Forbes that the Journal’s story was just “clickbait.” However, when the story broke earlier this week, it brought stock down for some of OpenAI’s largest investors and partners, including Broadcom, Oracle and SoftBank.

The company that would be hit hardest, though, is CoreWeave. Forbes’ Phoebe Liu and Richard Nieva write that OpenAI makes up about a third of CoreWeave’s planned revenue over the next seven years. And while OpenAI isn’t the AI cloud company’s only big customer, a failure to make payments will set CoreWeave’s business off balance. Infrastructure costs have been the biggest question mark for the AI space—projections of more spending in this area than anticipated have been enough to drop Big Tech stock prices. But right now, analysts told Forbes, the whole financial equation of AI is also a pretty big question.

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The blockbuster trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI started this week. The world’s richest man took the stand to accuse Sam Altman—who cofounded OpenAI with Musk and other researchers in 2015—of being greedy and changing the company’s mission. OpenAI was initially founded as a........

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