Unbreakable Ventures

by Fixinc

A bi-weekly digest covering 5 risk categories from the last 14 days. Brought to you by resilience advisory specialists and risk analysts. www.unbreakableventures.com

  1. 6h ago

    Trapped By Design | Risk Updates for Weeks of 17 June - 1 July '26

    🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 1 July 2026 Nine in ten enterprises can't map their AI dependencies, and the world's airlines are quietly writing the resilience playbook the rest of us should be copying. This fortnight: what happens when the tools you depend on can vanish overnight, and how carriers survive when their entire runway disappears. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Hidden AI Dependencies Expose Enterprises A new IBM study finds 91% of organisations don't fully understand their dependencies across AI vendors, models, and infrastructure. 2. Airlines Become Resilience Case Study Middle East carriers including Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar Airways suspended operations as the Iran conflict triggered major disruption. ⚡ Quick-Fire Threats 1 - Pharma Supply Chains Hit Record Pressure 2 - UAE Weighs Humanitarian Early-Warning Centre 3 - World Bank Flags Sustained Gas Price Volatility 4 - Australian Businesses Face Relentless Cyberattacks 5 - Asia-Pacific Supply Chains May Stay Disrupted 📚 Sources Main Story 1: IBM Study: Limited Control and Rising Dependencies Leave Enterprises Exposed | IBM Newsroom | June 2026 Main Story 2: Supply chain disruption remains a long-term challenge for airlines | Air Cargo Week | June 2026 Airlines Most Disrupted By Middle East Airspace Closures | Simple Flying | April 2026 🔗 Links 👉 Read the full episode article 🎧 Subscribe to the podcast 🧠 About Fixinc 🤝 Meet our sponsor, F24 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unbreakableventures.com

    15 min

  2. Jun 18

    Model Citizen | Risk Updates for Weeks of 3 June - 17 June '26

    🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 17 June 2026 A frontier AI model is forced offline worldwide in ninety minutes, and a Middle East peace deal still cannot unwind the supply shocks now setting up for 2027. This fortnight: vendor lock-in becomes a national-security risk, and three crises stack into one. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Government Pulls Frontier AI Model Anthropic was ordered by the US Commerce Department on 12 June to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for any foreign national, inside or outside the US, triggering a full global shutdown within ninety minutes. 2. Compounding Crises Choke Global Shipping Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on 2 March, sending Brent crude to a peak near US$120 a barrel and removing 17% of Qatar's LNG capacity at Ras Laffan for years to come, with a strengthening El Niño now arriving in time to test the Panama Canal. ⚡ Quick-Fire Threats 1 - China Escalates AI-Targeted Cyber Espionage 2 - Microsoft Dev Tools Poisoned to Steal Passwords 3 - UAE Firms Overestimate Their Crisis Readiness 4 - One in Four Australian Firms Hit by AI's Dark Side 5 - Australian Manufacturing Squeezed by Weak Demand 📚 Sources Main Story 1: The Fable 5 AI Model Just Went Dark | Inc. | June 2026 Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 | Anthropic | June 2026 Main Story 2: Israel/US-Iran conflict 2026: Reopening the Strait of Hormuz | House of Commons Library | June 2026 El Niño Has Arrived: NOAA Warns It Could Become One of the Strongest on Record | gCaptain | June 2026 🔗 Links 👉 Read the full episode article 🎧 Subscribe to the podcast 🧠 About Fixinc 🤝 Meet our sponsor, F24 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unbreakableventures.com

    22 min

  3. Jun 3

    Search and Destroy | Risk Updates for Weeks of 20 May - 3 June '26

    🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 3 June 2026 Google's AI is quietly stripping businesses of brand control in search, while a civil war in Myanmar tightens its grip on the world's rare earth supply. This fortnight: the platform that owns your customers' attention, and the conflict zone powering your electric vehicles. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Google AI Reshaping Brand Control Online Google's AI Overviews now dominate search results, pushing organic website links further down the page, representing a fundamental loss of control over how customers discover and engage with brands online. 2. Myanmar Conflict Threatens Global Rare Earth Supply Escalating armed conflict in Myanmar's Kachin and Shan states is disrupting rare earth mining operations that supply a significant share of China's heavy rare earth feedstock, creating cascading vulnerability for global technology, defence, and clean energy supply chains. ⚡ Quick-Fire Threats 1 - Global Food Inflation Risks Rise as Hormuz Tensions and El Niño Converge 2 - $670 Billion in Planned US Data Centres Face High Storm Exposure 3 - The Hidden Cost of a Single Chip Fab Disruption 4 - Marine Insurance's Overlooked Role in Supply Chain Resilience 5 - UK Supply Chains Unprepared for Major Shocks, Report Warns 📚 Sources Main Story 1: Is Google's AI-Powered Search Engine Killing the Internet? | TIME | May 2026 Google AI Overviews Are Reshaping Search Traffic for Publishers | The Verge | May 2026 Main Story 2: Myanmar Rare Earth Crisis: Supply Chain Offensives | Discovery Alert | May 2026 China's Rare Earth Dominance Faces New Disruption from Myanmar Conflict | Reuters | May 2026 🔗 Links 👉 Read the full episode article 🎧 Subscribe to the podcast 🧠 About Fixinc 🤝 Meet our sponsor, F24 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unbreakableventures.com

    19 min

  4. May 20

    Breaking Point | Risk Updates for Weeks of 6 May - 20 May '26

    🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 20 May 2026 The age of managing one crisis at a time is officially over, and nation-states are now turning ransomware into a weapon against private business. This fortnight: why resilience must be built for permanent turbulence, and how the line between espionage and cybercrime has dissolved. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Building Systems for Continuous Disruption Supply chain shocks no longer arrive one at a time. Disruptions now emerge as continuous, concurrent, and cascading pressures, overwhelming traditional crisis response models. 2. State-Backed Ransomware Threatens Private Enterprise State-sponsored ransomware operations are escalating against operational technology and critical infrastructure, with the line between espionage, sabotage, and financially motivated cybercrime effectively dissolved. ⚡ Quick-Fire Threats 1 - Asia's Tech Boom Masks Deeper Oil Crisis Vulnerability 2 - Malaysia Warns of Silent Supply Chain Shockwaves 3 - US-China Rare Earth Deal Delivers Limited Relief 4 - Tariff Uncertainty Set to Intensify for Agricultural Exporters 5 - Political Risk Shifts From War Zones to Contested Systems 📚 Sources Main Story 1: To Prepare for Supply Chain Shocks, Focus on Systems of Disruption | ASPI The Strategist | May 2026 Global Risks Report 2025 | World Economic Forum | January 2025 Main Story 2: State-Backed Ransomware Activity Raises New Concerns Over Escalating Threats to OT Critical Infrastructure Operations | Industrial Cyber | May 2026 Change Healthcare Cyberattack Exposes Data of Over 100 Million People | TechCrunch | October 2024 🔗 Links 👉 Read the full episode article 🎧 Subscribe to the podcast 🧠 About Fixinc 🤝 Meet our sponsor, F24 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unbreakableventures.com

    19 min

  5. May 6

    Ctrl Alt Delete | Risk Updates for Weeks of 22 April - 6 May '26

    🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 6 May 2026 An AI chatbot wipes an entire company database in minutes, and a Pacific paradise becomes ground zero for a global drug superhighway. This fortnight: the human negligence behind the AI blame game, and the cartels, gangs, and corruption reshaping Fiji. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. AI Blame Game Masks Human Negligence An AI chatbot built on Anthropic's Claude model deleted an entire company database after being given overly broad instructions, raising urgent questions about how organisations govern autonomous AI tool use. 2. Pacific Drug Superhighway Threatens Regional Stability Fiji has transformed from a low-crime tourist destination into a critical transit hub on the Pacific "drug superhighway," linking Latin American cartels to Australian and New Zealand consumer markets. ⚡ Quick-Fire Threats 1 - Bushfire Destroys $1.8 Million Wine Business, Exposing Underinsurance Risk 2 - Singapore Manufacturing Grows, but Conflict-Driven Cost Inflation Persists 3 - When Supply Chains Go Dark, Risk Compounds Invisibly 4 - Reinsurance Costs Signal Structural Shift in Climate Risk Pricing 5 - Mining Sector Recovers Cents on the Dollar from Insurance Claims 📚 Sources Main Story 1: Claude AI deletes firm's database in incident that has shaken AI community | The Guardian | April 2026 Shadow AI: How Employees Are Bypassing Corporate AI Policies | Harvard Business Review | February 2026 Main Story 2: Tracking the Pacific Drug Highway | New Lines Magazine | 2026 Fiji considers state of emergency over drugs and gangs | RNZ | April 2026 UNODC report exposes escalating threat of organized crime in the Pacific | UNODC | October 2024 🔗 Links 👉 Read the full episode article 🎧 Subscribe to the podcast 🧠 About Fixinc 🤝 Meet our sponsor, F24 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unbreakableventures.com

    23 min

  6. Apr 22

    Stolen Faces | Risk Updates for Weeks of 6 April - 22 April '26

    🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 20 April 2026 A UN report warns the Middle East crisis could drag millions across Asia-Pacific into poverty—and a catastrophic biometric breach just handed hackers a near-perfect deepfake training kit. This fortnight: compound shocks radiating from the Strait of Hormuz, and the permanent cost of stolen faces. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Middle East Crisis Threatens Global Poverty Surge A new UNDP report warns the Strait of Hormuz closure could push millions across Asia-Pacific into poverty through surging energy prices, trade disruption, and collapsing remittance flows. 2. Mercor Breach Exposes Permanent Biometric Threat AI hiring startup Mercor suffered a 4TB data breach of video interviews, passports, and source code, creating what experts call a near-perfect deepfake training dataset. ⚡ Quick-Fire Threats 1 - UK Small Businesses Hit by Cash Crunch, Supplier Fears, and War Shocks 2 - Airlines Slash Flights as Jet Fuel Crisis Deepens 3 - Australia's Fuel Security Scheme Tested Under Real Conditions 4 - Australian Businesses Cut Hours and Push Remote Work as Fuel Costs Bite 5 - Security Leaders Dangerously Overconfident About Ransomware Recovery 📚 Sources Middle East Crisis: Millions Could Be Pushed into Poverty, Flags UNDP | Times of India | April 2026 Middle East Military Escalation: HDI Impacts Across Asia-Pacific | UNDP | April 2026 Mercor AI Startup Security Incident | Fortune | April 2026 Supply Chain Attack on Trivy Scanner Compromises Thousands | The Record | April 2026 🔗 Links 👉 Read the full episode article 🎧 Subscribe to the podcast 🧠 About Fixinc 🤝 Meet our sponsor, F24 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unbreakableventures.com

    18 min
  7. "Trust in AI is fragile" – Inside the lab building technology for Healthcare, Civil Defence, Land Asset Management w/ Greg Headley

    Apr 16

    "Trust in AI is fragile" – Inside the lab building technology for Healthcare, Civil Defence, Land Asset Management w/ Greg Headley

    🎧 This week on Unbreakable Ventures This episode features Greg Headley, Lead Data Scientist at Informed Solutions, on what it actually takes to build AI systems that work in high-impact, safety-critical environments—from healthcare regulation to national policing. Informed Solutions is one of the first ten UK organisations to achieve ISO 42001 certification, the world’s first international standard for responsible AI. With two Queen’s Awards for Innovation and clients including the UK National Health Service, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, Metropolitan Police, and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, they’re at the forefront of operationalising AI where public trust expectations are high. In this episode, we cover: - Why multi-disciplinary teams are essential for AI success - The trust problem in AI—and how to solve it - What the “95% of AI adds no value” statistic actually means - Standards as innovation enablers, not barriers - Digital twins for crisis preparedness - The dark side of AI: cybersecurity concerns - The next five years: scepticism, specialisation, and security Key takeaway: Trust in AI is fragile and must be built incrementally. Organisations that invest in data governance, user-centered design, and responsible AI practices will be the ones who actually realise value from these technologies. Greg’s recommendations: Andrej Karpathy’s YouTube channel – AI education from a former Google/Tesla researcher Dwarkesh Podcast – In-depth conversations including the Richard Sutton interview on reinforcement learning Listen on Spotify, Substack, Apple, or YouTube. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unbreakableventures.com

    1h 31m

  8. Apr 7

    Gulf Gambit | Risk Updates for Weeks of 23 March - 6 April '26

    The largest oil supply disruption in history is unfolding—but the real crisis hits in 2027. This week: agricultural collapse looms across Asia-Pacific, and the UAE turns regional chaos into competitive advantage. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Hormuz Closure Triggers Cascading Agricultural and Industrial Crisis The Strait of Hormuz closure has disrupted 20% of global oil and LNG flows alongside critical fertiliser shipments, threatening food production across Asia-Pacific. 2. UAE Positions Crisis Response as Competitive Edge The UAE is leveraging regional instability to strengthen its position as a global business hub, with government-backed initiatives accelerating digital infrastructure and crisis-tested operational frameworks.  ⚡ Quick-Fire Threats 1 - EU Faces Largest Oil Supply Disruption in History 2 - Jubilant FoodWorks Addresses LPG Supply Constraints Amid Middle East Tensions 3 - UK Weeks Away from Medicine Shortages as Supply Chains Strain 4 - Business Interruption Coverage Gaps Exposed by Escalating Global Disruption 5 - New Zealand Tourism Faces Delayed Crisis as Input Costs Surge 📚 Sources Hormuz Chokepoint Disruption May Trigger Agri-Inflation and Supply Crunch: Goldman Sachs | Firstpost | April 2026 Global Fertiliser Markets Face Supply Shock from Gulf Disruption | Reuters | April 2026 Turning Crisis into Capability: The UAE's Business Advantage | Khaleej Times | April 2026 UAE Strengthens Position as Regional Business Hub Amid Middle East Tensions | Arabian Business | March 2026 🔗 Links 👉 Read the full episode article 🎧 Subscribe to the podcast 🧠 About Fixinc 🤝 Meet our sponsor, F24 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unbreakableventures.com

    18 min
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A bi-weekly digest covering 5 risk categories from the last 14 days. Brought to you by resilience advisory specialists and risk analysts. www.unbreakableventures.com

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  • Creator
    by Fixinc
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    43
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    © Fixinc Group Ltd 2024
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    Unbreakable Ventures