Taxing. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the Week ending April 14th 2026

Episode 287. On the day before the tax deadline in the US, we’ve got the most taxing update yet, full of unexpected deductions:OpenAI has unveiled bold policy recommendations to cushion the societal impact of advanced AI, including robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and trials of a four-day workweek.  Add in cake for all, and we’d swear Marie Antoinette was running the company.As AI assumes more decision-making roles, human work is evolving from task execution to high-level direction, judgment, and problem framing. Hopefully, there’s still time to talk to your school’s guidance counselor about changing your major.Professionals are now building personal “AI teams” of multiple specialized agents, dramatically expanding individual capacity while reshaping workloads and expectations.Citing potential misuse risks, OpenAI is restricting access to its most powerful new cybersecurity model, following a cautious approach already adopted by Anthropic.  “It’s so good you can’t have it.”A hacker group known as “FlamingChina” claims to have exfiltrated over 10 petabytes of sensitive data from China’s National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin in one of the largest breaches on record.Iran-linked hackers have reportedly disrupted critical operational systems at U.S. oil, gas, and water facilities, in a demonstration of “You hit us, we hit you.”A new independent audit reveals that Google, Microsoft, and Meta shockingly continue tracking users even after privacy opt-out signals are enabled.The New York Times has published a detailed investigation naming British cryptographer Adam Back as the strongest circumstantial candidate yet to be Bitcoin’s mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.  Quick, now’s the time to get really friendly with Adam.And just like filing taxes, the sooner we get to it, the sooner we get our refund!  Let’s go!