Patience and the AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending March 31st., 2026

Episode 285.  This week, we uncover some long-term offensive strategies that show the virtue of patience can have a negative impact on the victims.A China-aligned threat group is quietly weaponizing telecom infrastructure with kernel-level backdoors, turning carriers into long-term strategic listening posts.A low-tech but highly effective social engineering campaign is turning everyday users into their own worst enemy by coaching them to execute the attacker's commands.A popular AI gateway narrowly avoided a cascading supply-chain breach after compromised packages exposed just how fragile modern dependency chains have become.A leaked cache of internal documents has forced Anthropic to confirm a powerful new model, spotlighting both its rapid progress and the operational risks of secrecy at scale.New research shows that AI graders systematically diverge from human judgment, rewarding polish over depth and raising red flags for automated assessment in high-stakes settings.The US Defense Department is pushing AI vendors onto a single contractual and ethical footing, signaling that military requirements will increasingly define how models can be used.China’s latest Five-Year Plan elevates AI from a growth priority to a full-spectrum instrument of national power, blending industrial policy with geopolitical strategy.And finally.. The Meta–Manus deal has evolved into a geopolitical flashpoint, illustrating how cross-border AI acquisitions can collide head-on with state control and national security anxieties.You don’t even have to be patient with these discoveries.  Let’s go!Find the full transcript to this podcast here.