AI and Third-Party Cyber Risk Management -Villain or Savior?

AI is the two-sided coin, the double-edged sword, the villain and the savior -- in other words, AI is proving to be a massive paradox in the cybersecurity world. As AI moves at breakneck speed, so does the risk to vendors, suppliers and third parties plugging into our networks and that's the subject of Susan Rush's interview with cyberrisk strategist Jeffery Wheatman of Black Kite. And as usual, we have our regular segments: Last Week in AI: Netflix grabs up Ben Affleck's InterPositive for $538 billion; Meta grows its cloud compute business; and workers admit to AI sabotage. 2-Minute Tech Pulse: Anthropic debuts Claude for Teachers; xAI releases new Grok feature, called Automations.Take a listen! Links mentioned in episode: Meta offers compute deal to Anthropichttps://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-anthropic-drop-bombshell-news-174700402.html Netflix grabs up Ben Affleck's AI film production startuphttps://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/netflix-paid-587m-for-ben-afflecks-ai-filmmaking-startup/ Variety says GenAI already in hundreds of its filmshttps://variety.com/2026/biz/news/about-300-netflix-programs-used-ai-this-year-q2-earnings-1236812914/ AI adoption reality checkhttps://fortune.com/2026/07/14/goldman-ai-productivity-reality-check-worker-sabotage/