Lockdown Mode: When AI Security Means Disabling AI Features

Microsoft just discovered that thirty-one companies are hiding prompt injections inside ordinary "Summarize with AI" buttons, poisoning your AI assistant's memory to manipulate future recommendations. The tools to do this are open source, documented, and work across ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Perplexity, and Grok. In this episode: How AI Recommendation Poisoning works and why Microsoft compares it to the SEO wars Why prompt injection is the number one AI security threat and structurally unfixable in current architectures The EchoLeak zero-click attack, three hundred thousand stolen ChatGPT credentials, and the massive readiness gap in agentic AI deployment OpenAI's new Lockdown Mode: what it disables, why that matters, and the security-versus-capability tradeoff every organization now faces The big takeaway: defending AI systems is going to be a long, iterative war, and the choices organizations make right now about security versus capability will define the next era of AI deployment. New episodes every weekday. Share this with your security team.