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Michael B. Smith

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Mar 9, 2026, 10:07:36 AM (4 days ago) Mar 9
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It “reasons”!!! It “amplifies your intelligence”!!!

 

*cough*

 

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/03/09/introducing-the-first-frontier-suite-built-on-intelligence-trust/

 

Philip Elder

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Mar 9, 2026, 10:49:12 AM (4 days ago) Mar 9
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Wow … $99US/Month/User for all that!

/SARCASM

 

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Rick McClure

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Mar 9, 2026, 12:15:02 PM (4 days ago) Mar 9
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Wow….if there was any doubt where your data is…sounds like a copy will be kept online.  Privacy…trust….with whom? 

Have a good day.

Rick.

Philip Elder

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Mar 9, 2026, 12:31:05 PM (4 days ago) Mar 9
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At some point will someone wake up to the data exfiltration needed for those “agents” to work?

 

That the workload is in the cloud not on-premises?

 

Hoover

 

That name may be a bit dated for some. It’s the name of a former President but also of a vacuum company that did pretty well in past decades.

 

In my generation, we had an expression: To hoover it up!

 

That meant in totality what ever was being scoped was being sucked up.

 

So, here we are.

 

The hyper-cloud companies are so hungry for “real” data to train their AI on we get “Frontier Mode” to bring about a “Going for the Yukon Gold Baby!” kind of marketing PsyOp brain massage.

 

Ugh …

Wright, John M

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Mar 9, 2026, 12:37:45 PM (4 days ago) Mar 9
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Ah, yes, but they have an answer for you:  On-premises AI.  A piddling initial outlay of a quarter- or a half-million dollars is all that stands between the enterprise and the data security they’re looking for.

 

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Philip Elder

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Mar 9, 2026, 1:50:13 PM (4 days ago) Mar 9
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Heh … one of my kids was an escape artist. It did not matter where we put them they’d escape. No fear of consequence just GO!

 

Who has any kind of understanding of what those zeros and ones are actually doing?

 

It’s almost like the AI agents are NotPetya. No one had any idea the malware was anywhere on the network. And, it almost cost Maersk the entirety of the company if it weren’t for an offline DC in Ghana someone forgot to flip the BIOS auto-power on bit with.

 

So, the AI agents/spiders are on-premises. Great!

 

Now, how do we give those bits access to the data bits? Just the bits, nothing but the bits, and that’s the fact Jack!

 

Then, the biggee: How do we know if the AI bits haven’t planted more bits to get around our firewall and routing rules?

 

This is some scary Orwellian kind of stuff here.

Henry Awad

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Mar 9, 2026, 1:54:22 PM (4 days ago) Mar 9
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How many companies have a real AI policy that is comprehensive enough to protect proprietary and confidential data? How.many companies can track what AI agents their employees are using? The AI race is like the cold war arms race and we all (at least most of us who are old enough) know how that ended. 

And the Open AI deal with the DoD is throwing the guardrails off. I don't really believe that the DoD agreed to the same restrictions with Open AI that Anthropic wanted originally just to stick it to them. There's probably a lot of details in small fonts.


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