Daniel Pepper

Anthropic’s new AI model could enable such crippling damage in the wrong hands that the company has decided not to publicly release it – but it still reshapes the cybersecurity risk landscape for every business. The April 7 announcement of Claude Mythos sent shockwaves through the cyber community, and for good reason: the program already identified thousands of vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser, some of which had gone undetected for decades.

A sweeping new federal cybersecurity mandate is on its way, and now is the time for businesses to build the infrastructure you’ll need to comply. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is finalizing draft rules that will require a massive swath of American businesses to report certain cyber incidents, putting more structure and teeth behind the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA).

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are increasingly using artificial intelligence tools in drug benefit administration, a transaction-intensive function involving the calculation of fees, discounts, and rebates to manage costs for plan sponsors and participants. While AI can enable PBMs to operate more efficiently and optimize pricing to help lower drug costs, this new technology raises several data privacy, regulatory, and contractual risks for employers that sponsor health plans.