Las Vegas spent the last week full of hackers, security pros, and people who know way too much about your Wi-Fi.

Black Hat wrapped on Thursday, and DEF CON closed out the weekend. Hopefully, everyone changed their passwords before heading home.

Consider that your Monday reminder to stop reusing passwords.

The most consequential number in enterprise AI right now is not a benchmark score. It is a price.

According to Stanford’s 2025 AI Index, the cost of querying a model that performs at GPT-3.5 level fell from $20.00 per million tokens in November 2022 to $0.07 by October 2024, a more than 280-fold collapse in roughly eighteen months.

Most executives miss the detail behind that figure. The model that hit the $0.07 price point was not a scaled-down offering from a frontier lab. It was an eight-billion-parameter small model.

The cheapest way to buy yesterday’s frontier intelligence is not to rent the frontier. It is to buy something small that learned from it.

That is the case for distillation in one sentence. It also explains the broader shift toward small, task-specific models, which Gartner predicts enterprises will use at three times the volume of general-purpose large language models by 2027.

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Stronger cybersecurity starts with stronger leadership. A recent CIO Professional Network Roundtable explored how clear accountability and governance can help technology leaders reduce risk, build credibility across the business, and keep security from becoming a barrier to progress.

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Trupanion has selected CIO Partners to lead their search for the role of Chief Data Officer, located in Seattle. Read more…

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