The tools rewriting the threat model
Major AI
The frontier labs and the platforms built on them. Each hub collects our coverage — news, management changes, and releases.
OpenAI
The company whose November 2022 chatbot launch turned a research field into a consumer market — and whose releases have set the industry's pace, and its security questions, ever since.
Google DeepMind
The research powerhouse that invented the transformer and then found itself racing its own students — from AlphaFold's scientific triumphs to the Gemini era.
Anthropic
The safety-focused lab behind the Claude model family — and, for this magazine's beat, the company whose disclosures about the misuse of AI agents have repeatedly defined how defenders think about machine-speed attackers.
- From The VaultNovember 2025 — The Attacker Becomes an Algorithm
Microsoft
The distribution machine: the company that put a frontier model inside Windows, Office and a security product line — and tied its fortunes to OpenAI with the biggest cheque in the industry.
- From The VaultJune 2022 — GitHub Copilot goes on general sale
Meta AI
The open-weights standard-bearer. Meta's releases changed who gets to run a capable model — and its stumbles, like the three-day life of Galactica, changed how labs launch.
- From The VaultNovember 2022 — Galactica, withdrawn in 72 hours
xAI & the challengers
The fast followers: the labs proving that frontier capability no longer belongs to three companies — and forcing the pricing, openness and safety debates the incumbents would rather schedule themselves.
- Coverage buildingArticles land here as they publish.
Minor tools & the long tail
Image generators, coding assistants, voice models, agent frameworks — the small launches that quietly change workflows. These are tracked in the monthly AI Tech desk of every Vault edition rather than given hubs of their own: Midjourney and Stable Diffusion in the 2022 restorations, and each month's notable releases from there forward.
The monthly AI Tech desk
Every Vault edition carries an AI Tech desk — the month's launches of major and minor AI tools, management moves and releases, read with hindsight. The desks begin with the 2022 restorations: InstructGPT in January, DALL·E 2 in April, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion through the summer, and ChatGPT in November.
The Sentry Briefing
AI launches and the security news around them — once a week, in your inbox.