What Happens When Your Best People Stop Being Your Most Valuable Asset?

There’s an article doing the rounds called “The Intelligence Curse” by Luke Drago. It’s been widely shared, hotly debated, and if you work in any industry where relationships drive revenue, it deserves your attention. Not because it’s necessarily right about everything, but because the question it asks is one that every leader in financial services […]
John Lewis Just Wrote Off £22m on Housing. Here’s Why Mortgage Professionals Should Pay Attention.

John Lewis has quietly written off £22 million on its failed build-to-rent venture. The scheme, launched in 2020 with ambitions to build 10,000 rental homes, was scrapped in February after the economics stopped working. Architectural designs, planning applications, site preparation, all of it written down to zero. For a partnership that reported £13.4 billion in […]
The AI That Covered Its Tracks

The most striking detail from last week’s Anthropic announcement isn’t that their new model, Claude Mythos Preview, found a 27-year-old security vulnerability in a major operating system. It isn’t that the model identified thousands of critical zero-day flaws across every major OS and web browser in a matter of weeks, work that would take the […]