AI Is Ruining Hacking’s Business Model
For years, cybersecurity worked like this: make hacking so expensive that only the worst people with deep pockets could afford it.
Now AI has shown up like an unpaid overachiever and started finding bugs by the hundreds. Mozilla used Anthropic’s model to help uncover 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox, which is great for users and terrible for anyone who enjoys exploiting software for fun and profit.
The catch? Fixing that many bugs at once is a lot like deep-cleaning your house after realizing the raccoons have been living there for months. Still, it’s cheaper than a ransomware disaster.
Bottom line: attackers used to have the cost advantage. Now defenders have AI, and hacking just got a lot less economical.
Lawyers Have Reached Stage 3 of AI Grief
First, law firms ignored AI.
Then they bought licenses mostly to look busy.
Now they’ve realized the robots are staying, so it’s time to actually change how the firm works.
Consultant Olivier Chaduteau says this means more than picking a shiny legal AI tool. It means retraining lawyers, rewriting workflows, setting guardrails, and asking the scariest legal question of all: if AI does it faster, can we still bill by the hour?
That’s the real disruption. AI isn’t just coming for admin tasks — it’s coming for the sacred timesheet. Firms can either quietly squeeze more profit out of the old model, or admit clients may soon expect faster work, lower bills, and fewer six-minute increments.
In other words: AI won’t kill law firms, but it might finally murder hourly billing.
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