More than 100,000 seasoned cybersecurity programmers recently faced off in a series of global hacking competitions, and 99% of them were supposedly bested by a non-human hacker: AI.

Using foundational models from OpenAI and Anthropic, Israeli startup Tenzai builds cybersecurity defenses that go on the offensive. Cofounder and CEO Pavel Gurvich tells Forbes the company’s AI was surprisingly adept at combining exploits for software vulnerabilities. It’s certainly cause for concern, but there’s also room for optimism.

If AI can exploit IT systems, it means just about anyone can launch potentially devastating cyberattacks. AI-bolstered defenses could also fix weaknesses before they’re exploited, setting up a race of which AI finds the problem first.

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Economists offered a look ahead at climbing oil prices, warning that a range of $130 to $150 per barrel could be the price threshold that pushes the U.S. into a recession. Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi wrote Monday that a recession is “once again a serious threat” and that the firm’s economic models placed the odds of a recession starting in the next 12 months at 49%.

On a normal day, about 20 million barrels of crude oil and refined petroleum would pass through the Strait of Hormuz, but Iran is currently allowing a comparative trickle, with an average of just 500,000 barrels per day, according to Mike Haigh and the analysts at Societe Generale. And while energy prices may surge in the U.S., there’s little chance we’d actually run out—but nations like Myanmar, Vietnam and the Philippines are likely to face oil shortages after about a........

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