Browsing: Alignment

From the Boston Leadership Exchange.For years, security leaders have debated whether the CISO should report to the CIO, the CEO, legal, or somewhere else entirely. At the Boston Leadership Exchange, two executives responsible for making that relationship work argued the reporting line is far less important than the operating model behind it.Salumeh “Sal” Companieh, chief…

We present an alignment assessment of four incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems. We described three of these incidents on July 30; we identified these after a scan of roughly 141,000 transcripts in which we believed Claude could have obtained internet access during a cyber evaluation. Given the volume…

On July 30, we reported three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems. The models—intentionally running without cyber safeguards for evaluation purposes—accessed the internet due to a misconfiguration inside a third-party evaluation environment. Separately, on August 4, the UK AI Security Institute reported an incident from its own cybersecurity testing,…

Demand Gen Report has launched its 2026 alignment benchmark survey, which focuses on sales-marketing alignment. The survey emphasizes treating lead handoff service level agreements (SLAs) like system requirements rather than cultural initiatives.

Alignment Healthcare (ALHC) is under scrutiny after a whistleblower accused the company of inflating financial results by classifying operating expenses as capital expenditures. This has triggered multiple law firm investigations and a sharp stock reaction.

A former executive is claiming that the MA insurer recorded millions of dollars as capital expenditures that should have been operating expenses, inflating its value.