Do this: Pin one rule where hiring happens: nobody downloads software for an interview. Then run this prompt to turn the rule into a reply staff can paste.
PASTE THIS
Write a hiring security protocol for a 12-person [shop, clinic or office]. Plain English, no jargon, three parts: a 40-word reply to anyone who sends an interview link or asks us to install an app; five checks before an interview link is opened, covering who invited us, the email domain, a phone alternative, the app-store listing and who approves exceptions; and one line to pin in the hiring folder. Keep it short enough to paste in one message.
You'll get: A reply, five checks and one pinned line. Binance says hackers spent months posing as recruiters on LinkedIn, used an AI tool to help, and delivered malware through fake interviews: $6.3bn taken. A candidate never needs your laptop to answer a question. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/03/binance-co-ceo-teng-says-hackers-used-fake-job-interviews-to-steal-6point3-billion-in-crypto.html
The three sentences that fix the price after signing
Put these in the order form, not the policy page, and get them initialled.
A model call is turning into a commodity while the memory chip that serves it turns into a luxury. Both curves are real, and vendors advertise only the flattering one. Fix the price you can in a contract, and keep an exit you can afford.
Raspberry Pi raised prices for the second time in a month: the 16GB model is now $385, more than triple its launch price (The Register). Apple's new chief executive opened his first earnings call blaming memory costs (CNBC).
Data-centre demand is eating the supply, and Sam Altman says RAM belongs in a data centre, not on a desk (The Verge).
So what: get every laptop, server and controller due for replacement quoted in writing, with a validity date, this week, before the next increase lands.
The commodity claim now has a number
Gartner reckons an open model does about 90% of agentic work at a twentieth of a frontier model's price, and says the model is the commodity while the tooling around it is the asset (The Register). Open-weight models are already the cheap lane (AI Business). So what: this month, price your highest-volume AI task (tagging, triage, summarising) on a cheap model and run 20 real items past it before renewal.
The agent got a supervisor for $400m
CrowdStrike is buying Fiddler AI for about $400m and Dreadnode for about $95m, deals that exist because firms hand agents more authority than their security teams can watch (Wall Street Journal, via Techmeme). Nvidia is now building the inference behind Meta's Muse agent (NVIDIA). So what: this week, list every tool that can send an email or move money with no person approving it, and take one permission back.
The lenders behind your AI vendor
The money behind the AI build-out increasingly comes from firms few people have heard of, and that is feeding fears the bubble could burst (BBC). The risk to a buyer is not the crash; it is the quiet service cut that comes first. So what: this quarter, sign nothing longer than 12 months, and get the 30-day exit in Steal This initialled while the sales team still wants the deal.
This week's question: an AI vendor raised prices halfway through the term. Is there anything to do besides pay? Read the clause first. Most order forms say list prices may change with notice. That is permission, not a surprise. Then make the notice work: ask for the date the change was published, the notice period the contract names, and whether it lands mid-term or at renewal. If the notice was short, ask for the increase to start at renewal. Where the terms are silent, that silence is leverage: this is the moment to ask for the 30-day exit, and to get the answer in writing.
What is the longest software contract on your books?
A. A. Month to month
B. B. 12 months
C. C. Two years or more
D. D. No idea
Reply with one letter — results next issue.
ChatGPT added 200 million weekly users in two months. What share of Google's search volume does it now handle?
Answer tomorrow — and no, we are not printing it here.
YESTERDAY'S ANSWER
Apple is reportedly building a tabletop robot with a 9-inch screen and a swivelling arm. About what will it cost?
Around $1,000, with a release pencilled in for 2027 or 2028, according to The Information.
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