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This week on SHIFT
How do we build a cyber safety net for the agentic era?
As AI speeds up both attackers and defenders, the gap between a vulnerability being discovered and a system being breached is collapsing toward zero, and the new playbook is as much about keeping intruders out as how fast you can recover.
In this latest installment of our oral history project, Jennifer sits down with Anneka Gupta, Chief Product Officer at Rubrik, whose work sits at the center of that shift. Since 2021, we’ve taped more than a hundred oral histories exploring how breakthroughs and other watershed moments in computing and artificial intelligence came to be, in the words of people who witnessed them.
There's More Art in a Swiss Warehouse Than in the Louvre. Here's Why That Matters.
1.2 million works worth around $100 billion. All locked away by collectors with no intention of exhibiting them. More art sits in the Geneva Freeport than in the Louvre.
The reason? It's the world's largest tax-free vault. Works are traded inside without ever crossing a border or appearing in any public record.
When that much inventory is effectively off the table, anytime something does circulate, it’s a rare occasion.
Just a three hour drive away, the world’s premier international art fair is one of those occasions. Art Basel is this month and needless to say, things will move fast. Serious collectors will make their transactions before doors even open to the wider public.
Masterworks' acquisition committee — former specialists from Sotheby's and Christie's — operate in that window. Purchased artworks here can even become the offerings that Masterworks members fractionally invest in.
Their track record to-date?
$1.3B deployed across 530+ artworks featuring Banksy, Basquiat, Picasso, and Warhol
29 sales to date
Net annualized returns like 16.5%, 17.6%, and 17.8%, not including those unsold*
Investing involves risk. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. See important Reg A disclosures at masterworks.com/cd.
Three things to listen for
1. Building for problems that didn’t exist yet
As time-to-breach shrinks, the operative question shifts to how fast you can recover, but what if there could be the equivalent of an undo / rewind?
2. When AI agents overreach
The same agents deployed to help enterprises move faster can also make mistakes at machine speed, and become part of the very risk they were meant to reduce.
3. Resilience as a strategy
From rapid recovery to rethinking what "secure" even means, a look at how organizations are rebuilding their defenses for an AI-speed threat landscape.
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