• Nick Woodhead said he went 48 hours without sleep while helping patch a major website vulnerability.
• The CTO said that with security problems piling up, October feels like "the month of hell" for tech.
• Because AI makes it easier to find and exploit security gaps, Woodhead expects more disruption.

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Nick Woodhead, founder of the AI company GPTree and chief technology officer at Rothco and Compubox. He spoke with Business Insider on Thursday to share how he's responded to vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language that could affect the majority of the world's websites. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.

It's always a nightmare when these things happen. Since Tuesday evening, I haven't slept. It's coming close to 48 hours working on this. I'm a CTO, but I also run an agency for multiple clients and have my own company with my own product. So, balancing my time to get everything updated — it's just been exhausting.

About 70% of the internet runs on a programming language called PHP. I'm actively involved within the PHP community itself, so I did get a warning on Tuesday evening regarding the vulnerability and the fact that it was already being addressed by the PHP team. That gave me a head start.

I have some teams offshore, so I was able to jump on that with them.

It's not just applying the patches. It's making sure that nothing was already exposed. We already had infrastructure in place to easily deploy patches, but it still requires a good amount of manual involvement.

I knew that as soon as I walked into the office on Wednesday, I'd have to have my teams jump on this. They were already waiting for the patches to be released.

People are willing to help

One of the biggest headaches, especially on the client side, is that we have a lot of legacy systems, which are running on older versions of PHP that are no longer supported, and official patches are not going to be produced. For those, we ultimately had to come up with other plans. For example, taking sites temporarily offline or moving them behind VPNs.

Eventually, because it's an open-source community, those patches have already been backported, or implemented, by the community. So now we're shuffling back to some of those older systems to get them patched.

That's one of the nice things about PHP. There's such a vast community of people all willing to roll up their sleeves and jump in and help.

Even though I've been in leadership for the last 10 years, I've never taken my hand off the pulse in terms of being connected with the code and the infrastructure. So, I've been hands-on with the development and infrastructure teams to help make sure these issues are resolved. We've been reviewing logs and looking for any potential signatures of a breach that this vulnerability exposed.

The month of hell

It's also meant keeping up to speed with the latest news that's coming out and what other people are finding. We're in a position now where we feel comfortable and safe, but there are new vulnerabilities in the coding tool Node.js. We have some Node services, so now we're looking at how that potentially affects us. October just seems like the month of hell from a technology perspective.

I don't think there is an end in sight with the advancements in AI. For all the positives we get from it, there are a whole bunch of negatives, and this is a perfect example.

OpenAI has already stated that they found many more of these types of vulnerabilities that, thankfully, haven't been leaked. Over the coming months, they are either going to be patches or this information is going to get leaked in the same way and cause the same kind of panic.

I don't think we're at the end of the road yet. There's going to be a lot more to come.

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Il filmato in poche ore viene rilanciato sui social, a finire nel mirino è ancora una volta Bruno Vespa: “Quando parlate voi giovani, per favore, documentatevi prima. Questo lavoro è fatto anche di studio, capisce? Quindi quando venite qui, venite preparati, dovete studiare, sennò dite delle sciocchezze che non vi giovano“, ha detto il conduttore rivolgendosi a Sabrina Brizzola, 24enne coordinatrice dell’Unione degli universitari, mentre quest’ultima nel corso della sua ospitata a “Porta a Porta” stava parlando del tasso di abbandono scolastico “molto alto in Italia”.

“Visto che lei è informata, la prego di vedersi le statistiche”, ha aggiunto il padrone di casa dopo aver più volte chiesto a Brizzola – visibilmente innervosito – di non essere interrotto: “C’è il massimo recupero storico di abbandono scolastico. Noi siamo con un anno di anticipo rispetto ai target dell’Unione europea”. “Posso rispondere? L’Italia è l’unico paese in Europa che non copre tutte le borse di studio degli studenti universitari. Questo è un dato che se qualcuno vuole confutarmi sono contenta di ascoltare. Le borse di studio non vengono coperte, le università vengono definanziate“, ha aggiunto la coordinatrice dell’Unione degli universitari.

Alla pioggia di critiche social, si è aggiunta nelle scorse ore una nota dell’Usigrai, sindacato che rappresenta i giornalisti dell’azienda pubblica: “Ancora una edificante pagina di Servizio Pubblico da parte del conduttore con contratto da artista Bruno Vespa. Ci chiediamo se sia ulteriormente tollerabile che in uno studio della Rai si assista ad un comportamento tra l’aggressivo e il paternalistico (pensavamo di non essere più nell’epoca dei romanzi di Jane Austen!) come quello tenuto nei confronti di Sabrina Brizzola coordinatrice dell’Udu, Unione degli Universitari, che nella puntata del 20 ottobre non ha potuto terminare il proprio ragionamento apostrofata e interrotta più volte in modo aggressivo da Vespa. Ci piacerebbe che un tale piglio da grande mattatore televisivo venisse riservato anche ai potenti di turno nei confronti dei quali invece Vespa mostra solitamente un’invidiabile pacatezza”. Da segnalare, inoltre, che l’account X di Bruno Vespa risulta sospeso. Non è chiaro se la sospensione sia legata a quanto accaduto o se avvenuta in precedenza.

L'articolo “Sabrina Brizzola apostrofata e interrotta più volte in modo aggressivo. Ci piacerebbe che questo piglio venisse riservato anche ai potenti”: Usigrai contro Bruno Vespa proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

• GoDaddy has over 20 million customers, the majority of which are small businesses.
• Its CEO, Aman Bhutani, said small businesses can save time by automating operational tasks with AI.
• Bhutani said entrepreneurs need to focus on what they're good at — not outsource their brand.

GoDaddy's CEO said small businesses should use AI to automate work, but not lose sight of their brand.

As head of the domain registrar and web-hosting company, Aman Bhutani has a bird's-eye view into what works for small businesses. The company said it has over 20 million customers, the majority of which are micro businesses, or those with fewer than 10 employees.

The entrepreneurs behind these companies consistently have passion and expertise, he said. However, they tend to have less technological capability — and even less bandwidth to do time-consuming tasks like creating and maintaining a website, said Bhutani.

"There is not enough time in the day," Bhutani told Business Insider.

Today, business owners can use AI agents to do that type of work with minimal friction, Bhutani said, and they can use the tools to help run parts of their business.

A recent survey from GoDaddy's small business research lab found that US entrepreneurs find content creation, marketing, and business advice as the top three areas where they see the most significant time savings with AI.

GoDaddy offers access to Airo, an agentic tool that builds websites and helps with other operational features. For instance, Bhutani said that Airo can create user logins for a small business's customers to make website profiles, or send targeted customer outreach based on a user's location or involvement with the business.

When to use AI — and when not to

He said that businesses should stick to using agents for tasks that they're not as skilled at, or those that don't differentiate them competitively.

Bhutani said humans should control how their product is unique and not delegate control over their customers' experience. While AI can help with research — the owner ultimately needs to leverage their own knowledge when making decisions about what would work for the brand.

"It doesn't mean that AI cannot suggest those things," Bhutani said. "It can suggest, but the human should continue to control their branding."

While AI tools can save time, "ultimately, you want the human to focus on their area of expertise," Bhutani said, adding that the technology should "enable everything else."

• Buzzy insurtech Corgi has a knack for launching new businesses, and investment banking may be next.
• The firm posted a job for a managing director of investment banking.
• Unlike typical investment banking jobs, the pay is commission only.

Corgi launched as an insurance startup, but it's been rapidly expanding into new businesses like thematic ETFs and 24/7 cafe/coworking spaces.

A job filing posted this month suggests it's now eyeing M&A investment banking.

The company, valued at $5 billion, is hiring for a "Managing Director, Investment Banking" role, according to the posting. It says the company is "seeking experienced Managing Directors with established client relationships, deep sector expertise, and a proven track record of originating and closing transactions."

The company says it's seeking someone with more than five years of experience. Unlike traditional investment banking jobs, which typically pair a hefty base salary with performance-based compensation, this job is "commission only, with no base salary."

"Payouts are tied to collected transaction fees, with terms based on origination and execution responsibilities and agreed upon before joining," the listing says.

Investment banking managing directors across the industry made a median of $1.1 million a year in 2025, according to Prospect Rock Partners, and in previous years, bonuses made up more than two-thirds of total compensation.

A commission-only contract could be seen as a hard sell for your average banker, but Corgi's prolific fundraising — $266 million this year and $431 million in total since its 2014 launch — and its vision of "building an AI financial infrastructure company" may be attractive to an ambitious young banker.

The company did not respond to a request for comment about its plans or the job posting.

Corgi was founded by Emily Yuan and Nico Laqua in 2024, offering a range of insurance products for startups. Its recently opened cafés are positioned as a marketing tool for startup founders.

While an investment banking platform may seem to be an odd choice for an insurer, it is a clue that this is part of the firm's vision to serve startups by helping them sell their businesses.

The posting said candidates should have relationships with "founders, sponsors, and referral partners" — in other words, those who can connect startup founders with private equity investors that could buy their companies.

• This week's cyber freakout explained: AI is making software weaknesses easier to find and exploit.
• The message from Cloudflare's Stephanie Cohen and Vercel's Tom Occhino: Don't panic!!!
• Do we need everything connected to the internet? Paper bank statements work well.

A few weeks ago, I heard a strange story about a friend who works at one of the Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley.

She'd recently ripped out the connected devices in her home, ordered paper bank statements, and stocked up on canned goods in her basement.

Now, she's a very sane, experienced person, and quite senior at one of the largest internet companies on earth. Why was she disconnecting so much? Just to be sure, my family ordered paper bank statements, too. It was still a head-scratcher, though.

Fast forward to this week, and her actions look a little less crazy.

AI models have exposed serious security weaknesses in software used by roughly 70% of websites. Meanwhile, US banks are finding AI agents inside customer accounts, including some that appear to be acting without their owners' instructions, Axios reported.

'Black October'

The digerati have now entered full freakout mode. Much of the internet meltdown is happening on, well, the internet, my colleague Alice Tecotzky noted.

On X and Reddit, warnings of a looming “Black October” spiraled into visions of AI grinding civilization to a halt. One lengthy post on X warned of a potential “global cyberattack/AI swarm” and offered a survival checklist: Stockpile cash in small bills, print out your neighbors' phone numbers, download maps, buy a hand-crank radio, and stash a gallon of water per person per day.

Oh, and don't forget the manual can opener. You don't want to survive the AI apocalypse only to be defeated by a tin of beans.

Nikita Bier, a prominent app developer and former head of product at X, best captured the mood.

"It's time to turn off the internet," he posted Wednesday night.

A Cloudflare exec says it's 'a little bit scary'

If you're reading this, you haven't done that yet. But should we really be worried?

I put that question to Stephanie Cohen, chief strategy officer at Cloudflare, which helps protect about 20% of the internet.

"The world is a little bit scary right now," she told me on the side of Cloudflare's annual conference in San Francisco this week.

Here's the problem. The internet is built on decades of software, much of it riddled with security holes.

Some of these weaknesses have been known for years. However, fixing them takes time and money, and hackers often lacked the skills to exploit them anyway. So they were left alone.

AI changes that calculation dramatically. Someone who previously needed years of training to break into a computer system can now get help from an AI model. And these tools can search for weaknesses at a speed humans simply can't match.

The result: The number of newly published software vulnerabilities (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures in industry lingo) has exploded.

Now, there's a frantic race between people trying to break into systems and those trying to protect them.

Don't panic about AI

Cohen's message, though, was surprisingly reassuring.

AI helps the good guys find and fix these problems. Cloudflare, for instance, released protections for the latest vulnerability to customers, including those using its free service.

And there's a bigger effort underway.

OpenAI has launched an initiative called Patch the Planet, working with Cloudflare and other security professionals to use AI to find weaknesses in widely used software and help repair them.

Tom Occhino, chief product officer at Vercel, told me recently that his company has been talking with partners about launching a nonprofit that would fund a swarm of good AI agents that go out on the internet to find and fix software flaws.

Amazon is joining the fight, too. Its new Continuum service, available Thursday, uses AI agents to find security holes and propose fixes. Amazon said that people maintaining freely available software can use it to help protect the wider internet.

Humans may still have to check and approve these repairs, but the prospect of AI helping clean up decades of neglected software is encouraging.

The irony of this is not lost on some in the industry.

"The funny thing is everyone was saying AI slop code will cause a cyber crisis but it's actually all the old human slop causing it and the AI is just cleaning it up," software engineer Ben Kaufman wrote on X on Thursday.

Either way, Cloudflare's Cohen thinks these AI-inspired freakouts will push the industry to do better — by exposing issues and adding urgency to get them patched.

"We may end up in a world where actually we've become significantly more secure at the end," she said.

The trouble is getting there.

A fundamental question about the internet

When I ran into Occhino recently at a Vercel conference in San Francisco, he described a world in which software that everyone assumed was safe suddenly looks vulnerable because increasingly capable AI models are scrutinizing the basic systems that underpin the internet.

That led to a more fundamental discussion between us: Why did we connect so many things to the internet in the first place?

For years, the technology industry has raced to put everything online. Thermostats. Refrigerators. Doorbells. Cars. Bank accounts.

We assumed that connecting something to the internet automatically made it better.

Perhaps we should reconsider.

Before the internet

I remember the world before the internet. It worked pretty well. We managed to buy groceries, pay bills, heat our homes, and generally get through the day without every appliance talking to a computer somewhere.

That doesn't mean abandoning online banking or throwing your smartphone into the sea.

Occhino, for one, isn't particularly worried about hackers wiping out his bank account. Modern banks have sophisticated protections, and he recommends everyone turn on additional login security.

Maybe the cybersecurity crowd, which spends its life immersed in online threats, is missing something obvious.

Not everything needs to be connected.

Occhino put it neatly: "There's certain things that don't make sense to be on the internet in the first place."

Perhaps that's the lesson from this week's panic. We don't need to turn off the internet.

We just need to remember where the off switch is.

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• Meta says that over a quarter of Muse users made purchases with the AI agent.
• The average order was over $200 — that's a lot of clams!
• If this is you, please tell me what you're using it for.

Something just blew my mind, and I'm asking for your help to figure it out.

According to Meta's Q3 earnings call on Wednesday, more than a quarter of Muse users so far have used the AI agent make purchases — and the average order size is over $200.

I'll say that again: average order size over $200.

This is shocking to me, and I'm someone who has been actively and happily using Muse for a variety of things. I've been perfectly happy to give Muse access to my email, my calendar, my credit cards, and even my Apple health data.

But I've been slightly reticent about using it to actually buy stuff. Not that I'm totally worried about it getting stuff wrong (although the one purchase I did try to make with it was to order a salad for lunch, and it attempted to place the order on my HSA card after I failed to recognize the last 4 digits of that card, oops).

I think it's more I enjoy shopping online myself? I mean, for most things, I suppose. For "fun" stuff like clothes or personal items, I enjoy browsing and the hit of dopamine when you check out. (Others take this to the extreme, using "dopamine sites" that let you browse fake restaurants and "order" food that never arrives.) The other night I ordered — on a real site — cotton balls, razor blade refills, a plain white t-shirt, and a pair of scissors from the Target app while watching TV and even that boring purchase with a total under $30 gave me a small thrill. Why would I want to cede that joy to AI?

I understand, however, that not all purchases are fun. My colleague, Peter Kafka, used Muse to help him place an order for a new washing machine — the kind of purchase that is difficult to decide on, not particularly fun or exciting to make, and fairly expensive. Things like plane tickets, washing machines, or car insurance are in that category of stuff you have to buy, cost a lot of money, are fairly complicated to decide which option to buy, but bring very little joy during checkout.

I can understand why you might want to hand that off to an AI agent.

If you are using Muse to place big $$$ orders, what the heck are you buying?

My best guess here is that people are using Muse for airplane flights and hotels — the kind of big dollar items that are kind of annoying to book yourself, and you care mainly about just booking the right dates.

Am I right? You tell me!

Comment below, or you can email me at: knotopoulos@businessinsider.com. Or, you know, tell your Muse to email me.

• Sundar Pichai said Google was still in the early phases of recursively self-improving AI.
• Researchers are working with AI agents to build better models, he said.
• Sergey Brin recently said Google was "starting to get onto that RSI treadmill."

Google's AI models may be helping to build their successors, but CEO Sundar Pichai says the moment of fully self-improving AI is still a while away.

Speaking on an episode of the "Big Technology Podcast" this week, Pichai said that Google researchers were using AI agents to assist them when building models, but caveated that it was still early days.

"We are pretty far from the end state of RSI," said Pichai, referring to recursive self-improvement. "The right way to describe it is, you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. I would say you almost have agents helping AI researchers, in some automated way, work together to build these models."

Pichai added that he expected that continuum to keep making progress into next year.

Earlier this month, Google cofounder Sergey Brin said the company's Flash series of models, as well as Gemini 4, were demonstrating how AI was helping to build itself, and that Google was "starting to get onto that RSI treadmill."

"And now our researchers and the model work hand in hand to make the next version of the model," he said.

Brin has been increasingly involved in Google's Gemini efforts and has leveraged his power as cofounder to shift resources to projects he deems most effective, Business Insider previously reported. This has included pushing for more focus on RSI.

A report from the firm Gladstone AI, published earlier this month, said that most researchers interviewed from companies including Anthropic and DeepMind believed RSI will start within the next three to 12 months, and possibly sooner without government intervention.

In another moment on the "Big Technology Podcast," Pichai was asked about how much AI was being used to code internally. The company said in April that 75% of new code inside Google was generated by AI.

"That number in our world today is like meaningless in the sense that every part of code we now touch is influenced by AI deeply," Pichai said. With Gemini 4 Argon, he said, people were going to tackle harder problems. He also said Google was seeing a one-third decrease in code rollbacks, where software is reverted to a previous version because of a bug or system issue.

"And so I think people are writing code more productively, and better code with it," he said of AI tools.

Pichai also uses AI to track Google's model development and internal discussions, he told the "Sources" podcast this week.

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Una bandana indossata non per questioni di moda, ma per coprire la cicatrice dopo un piccolo intervento. Questo è quello che ha spiegato Rita Rusic a “La volta buona” nel corso della puntata di giovedì 22 ottobre, quando ha raccontato il motivo della bandana che aveva già indossato nel corso di un’altra sua ospitata nel programma di Caterina Balivo.

“Ho fatto un intervento perché avevo un piccolo rigonfiamento in fronte. Mi sono fatta vedere e mi hanno dato una medicina per curarlo. Ma non era quello” ha spiegato Rusic, a cui inizialmente dunque non era stata prescritta la giusta cura. Durante una visita a cui Rusic aveva accompagnato un’amica, un medico le ha fatto però capire che non si stava curando nel modo giusto.

“No, non è questo. Si vuole fare vedere da un dermatologo che le dico io?” le disse allora il medico. Rusic così, andando dal dermatologo indicatole, ha scoperto di avare un basalioma. “Un basalioma è un tumore maligno circocritto, così mi sono dovuta operare. Avendo avuto però una diagnosi sbagliata, ho perso tanto tempo ed era diventato molto grande” ha spiegato Rita Rusic.

L'articolo “Mi sono dovuta operare per un basalioma. Ho avuto una diagnosi sbagliata e ho perso tanto tempo. Era diventato molto grande”: Rita Rusic racconta il tumore alla pelle da poco rimosso proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

• Executives and AI analysts alike are warning of major cybersecurity threats.
• Experts say critical systems, from energy and water to healthcare, may be especially exposed.
• Here's what smart people are saying about the biggest threats to the internet at the moment.

CEOs and AI analysts alike are sounding the warning on cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could not only expose large swaths of personal data but also allow bad actors to wreak havoc on the internet.

On Wednesday, OpenAI said its agents helped detect severe cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Two "critical" flaws were found in the infrastructure of PHP, an open-source programming language that 70% of websites use.

Here's what smart people are saying about the biggest cybersecurity threat of the moment.

Jason Clinton, Anthropic's deputy chief information security officer

Anthropic's deputy security chief, Jason Clinton, warns that a "vulnerability tsunami" is coming — and says critical infrastructure hasn't caught up.

Clinton posted on X on Wednesday about the need to "patch critical infrastructure" before core network vulnerabilities get exploited. On Thursday, he issued another warning to companies.

"As bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better," he wrote.

"Security leaders, never let a crisis go to waste: please go to your boards and ask for help right now. not for ai, for the basics. (we need to hold on for ~18 months.)," he added.

Andrew Curran, AI analyst

Andrew Curran, a prominent AI analyst, weighed in on several cybersecurity threats from Wednesday to Thursday.

"Regarding potential attacks on energy, food, and water infrastructure, the threat is quite real. Someone is currently probing infra and feeling it out, it is an active threat. Even a little preparation can be helpful, just in case," Curran wrote on Wednesday in response to an NSA cybersecurity advisory about threat actors.

On Thursday, Curran also highlighted a hack of Quest Diagnostics, which he said serves "roughly half" of the US's hospitals and physicians.

Matt Shumer, AI investor

In February, Matt Shumer, the former CEO of Hyperwrite, published a viral essay on his website titled "Something Big Is Happening," in which he warned of large-scale disruptions wrought by AI that could upend the world order.

Shumer published another essay on Thursday on his website and LinkedIn, this time titled "The Internet Is Under Attack. Here's How to Protect Yourself and Your Family."

"Right now, as you read this, swarms of AI agents are likely trying to break into the websites you use. Not one of them. Many of them," Shumer wrote. "We are in the middle of the biggest cybersecurity moment in years."

This is what could happen, per Shumer's post:

Your information leaks, so scammers know your name, birthday, address and bank, and their calls and texts sound real. Your accounts get taken over through some site you used once, years ago, with the same password you use everywhere. And the things you depend on, like an app, a pharmacy or a store's website, go down for days.

To be clear: this is ongoing, but the worst-case scenarios people are most scared of haven't happened. I hope they never do. But it's better to be safe than sorry, especially since this is going to keep happening.

Shumer also outlined four ways people can protect themselves, including updating all their software and staying off sites they're unfamiliar with while companies and websites alike make their security updates.

He also advises that people protect their bank accounts by being extra cautious about any and all codes and links that they receive. People should also "close the doors you aren't using" by unplugging smart gadgets and deleting apps that aren't being utilized.

"Every connected thing is another way in," Shumer wrote.

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce

Marc Benioff agreed with Anthropic's Jason Clinton in an X post on Thursday.

"Jason is 100% right. Code red," Benioff wrote, along with a red alarm emoji.

Il collegamento davanti allo studio di Pippo Baudo, poi il mini-varietà con Biggio, Annalisa e Gigi D’Alessio

C’è un filo rosso, fatto di smoking, ironia, rispetto e un viscerale attaccamento alla televisione pubblica, che lega Rosario Fiorello alla grande figura di Pippo Baudo. Domenica sera, alle 20:30, quel filo è diventato un’immagine-manifesto: Fiorello – affiancato dall’immancabile e soprattutto sodale Fabrizio Biggio – prima di prendere possesso dello studio del Tg1 a Saxa Rubra per il debutto di Tg1 edizione più che straordinaria, si è collegato con il primo telegiornale d’Italia in una location ben precisa. Una scelta assolutamente non casuale.

Il lancio del suo programma lo ha fatto proprio lì, davanti al nuovo studio della Rai intitolato a Pippo Baudo, quello da cui va in onda Ballando con le stelle, trasformando poi per la prima volta nella storia il tempio del telegiornale in un mini-varietà fatto di satira, musica, gag e calore popolare. Perché il varietà non è morto, basta volerlo.

Il nuovo Baudo per la Rai

Per decenni Pippo Baudo è stato molto più di un semplice conduttore: è stato il “signore” della televisione di Stato, il custode del canone morale e d’intrattenimento della Rai, capace di unire il Paese davanti al piccolo schermo. Oggi, quel ruolo di ponte sentimentale tra il pubblico e Viale Mazzini sembra indossarlo alla perfezione Fiorello.

Non è un mistero quanto lo showman siciliano consideri Baudo un mentore e un’istituzione. Basti ricordare il celebre aneddoto del provino giovanile per Fantastico, quando un giovanissimo Fiorello intrattenne Baudo per quasi un’ora sentendosi dire: «Sei bravo… ma per questo tipo di cosa ci sono già io», un giudizio che si è trasformato in un’amicizia profonda e in una tacita investitura.

Quando Fiorello ripete che alla Rai «si deve moltissimo» e ironizza sul fatto che bisognerebbe sostituire la storica statua del cavallo a Viale Mazzini con lo stesso Baudo, non fa cabaret: esprime una dichiarazione d’amore laica verso la tv pubblica. Una dichiarazione d’amore che gli ha fatto anche difendere il mitico Teatro delle Vittorie da una svendita troppo frettolosa.

Un debutto che profuma di casa

Il blitz di domenica sera – un quarto d’ora piombato a sorpresa subito dopo il Tg1 condotto da Emma D’Aquino – ha riportato in auge il rito del grande varietà televisivo. Tra finti operai, Annalisa, Gigi D’Alessio, TonyPitony e battute fulminanti, Fiorello ha dimostrato di possedere la stessa alchimia di Baudo: la capacità di entrare nelle case degli italiani senza spocchia, con la leggerezza di chi sa che la televisione è una cosa seria proprio quando scherza.

Farsi trovare lì, nel lancio durante il Tg1, sulla soglia dello studio intitolato all’uomo che più di tutti ha incarnato l’anima della Rai, non è stata una scelta di location casuale. È il passaggio del testimone ideale. Un modo per dirci che, finché ci sarà qualcuno capace di trattare lo schermo con amore e gratitudine, la grande televisione italiana non è affatto finita ed il varietà non è morto (magari senza alzare troppo il volume del televisore, Peppi Franzelin dixit).

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L'articolo Fiorello, il nuovo Baudo della Rai? L’omaggio a Pippo e quella dichiarazione d’amore alla tv pubblica proviene da Affaritaliani.it.

For decades, Southeast Asia has turned great-power rivalry to an economic advantage. By maintaining healthy ties with Washington and Beijing, ASEAN governments attracted investment, expanded trade and preserved room for diplomatic maneuver. The great-power race for artificial-intelligence dominance, however, is changing that bargain. As the United States and China build competing technology networks, neutrality may […]

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• Gary Vaynerchuk shared what he'd do as a young entrepreneur starting out today.
• The first investment should be time spent making content and learning AI, he said.
• He said AI could be a once-in-a-generation opportunity for young founders — one as transformative as the internet.

Gary Vaynerchuk, 50, says aspiring entrepreneurs should spend every spare minute mastering AI and content creation.

During a Thursday appearance on the "Nude Project" podcast, Vaynerchuk shared how he would approach starting a business today as a 16-year-old with 1,000 euros in capital. The podcast is hosted by Bruno Casanovas and Alex Benlloch, founders of the Spanish streetwear brand Nude Project.

"I would make content," Vaynerchuk said. "The dollars don't scare me at all because it takes no dollars. I would spend every ounce of time learning AI. Like, from what OpenClaw is to Claude Code, to using it to think and ponder my ideas."

Vaynerchuk said he understood why people were still weighing AI's enormous potential against its possible drawbacks, but believes it will be a missed opportunity "to not take advantage of how profound this technology is."

"Much like the internet, much like computers, much like electricity, there will be pros and cons to big technologies. That is the story of man. That is life," Vaynerchuk said.

"This is the most opportunistic technology that has ever been invented," he continued.

Vaynerchuk then pointed to the founders' own success as proof of the internet's power, and said that younger generations often underestimate its impact because they have never known a world without it.

"For 7-year-olds right now, they will never understand how profound AI is," he said.

Vaynerchuk added that young people should use their free time to learn content creation, strategy, app-building, and how to use AI throughout their lives.

He said AI tools and agents could automate chores, save money, and find sold-out items at the best price.

If he were 16 today, he would fully immerse himself in learning tools such as Grok, Gemini, Nano Banana, and Higgsfield. "Everything, everything, everything. All of it," Vaynerchuk said.

The entrepreneur has long been optimistic about AI's potential. In 2023, he said the technology was "coming fast" and that he believed workers could adapt to the disruption it'd bring.

AI tools are lowering the barriers for startup founders and small-business owners to create marketing content, build early product prototypes, and automate routine tasks that once required a bigger budget, specialized expertise, or additional staff.

At the same time, as those tools become more accessible, creativity may be the defining factor in standing out.

A pair of critical PHP security flaws discovered by researchers with the help of AI forced an emergency patch and set off scattered attacks across the web. PHP is a programming language used to build up to 70 percent of the websites online today.

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