This year, IT pros may discover what’s global is also local, as economic uncertainty and worldwide conflicts translate into pinched IT budgets and a growing need to vindicate AI investments.

There has been no shortage of global strife lately. The ongoing US-Israel war with Iran has caused oil prices to jump, with national gas prices reaching over $4 per gallon, up from $3.17 a year ago. Meanwhile, the AI boom is driving up US natural gas and electricity prices due to data centers’ increasing energy demands.

Those aren’t the only prices going up. The US Department of Labor’s March Consumer Price Index report showed prices climbed 3.3% YoY. (And if that wasn’t enough, recession pop is making a comeback.)

Where does IT fit into all of this? Some experts say IT pros may feel the aftershock of global conflicts and economic issues at their organizations, if they haven’t already. A March Forrester trends report predicted rising energy costs and inflation will likely have an impact on IT budgets, for instance.

Check the numbers.—BM

The Project Glasswing invite is an exclusive one: More than 40 organizations were invited by AI giant Anthropic to test the upcoming Claude Mythos Preview, reportedly an extremely powerful LLM, against cybersecurity infrastructure and tactics.

But don’t worry—there’s still gonna be a big-time patch party to attend once all is said and done.

A strategy guide, updated on April 16 from the nonprofit Cloud Security Alliance, revealed that today’s CISOs will need to prepare for an uptick in updates as increasingly powerful LLMs uncover new and unexpected vulnerabilities in new and legacy code.

“In the near term, security organizations will likely be overwhelmed by the need to apply patches and respond to AI-discovered vulnerabilities, exploits, and autonomous attacks,” the briefing’s authors wrote.

Prepare for the flood.—BH

Mythos is a font of information.

That’s the concern for cybersecurity pros reviewing information about Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, part of a new tier of models named Capybara. According to leaked product information meant for early access customers, the new model could be used by threat actors to implement more powerful attacks.

Leaky faucets. Fortune first reported on the leak on March 26. Almost 3,000 documents on the model, including images and PDFs, were accidentally made available on Anthropic’s blog CMS and accessible to the public without needing a login (they’ve since been taken down). The content was meant to give customers a preview of the new model’s capabilities.

Track the danger.—EH

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