By Daniel W. Rasmus, Serious Insights

In 2026, enterprise AI will stop behaving like a feature and start behaving like infrastructure. This is the core assertion about the evolution of AI agents from our 2026 State of AI: Observations and Recommendations Report, which was sharply reinforced this week by a press release from nexios.ai. That shift isn’t just about more AI in more places. It’s about organizations moving from using models to operating with intelligence. The moment AI becomes infrastructure, with all the associated debt, drift, audit trails, and politics that infrastructure implies, it also becomes fundamental to how an organization works.

By Daniel W. Rasmus, Serious Insights

The reaction to Claude’s new Cowork feature in public markets says as much about investor psychology as it does about what Anthropic shipped. For months, software investors have been living with a background fear that “AI inside the app” is just a temporary comfort blanket. Then an agent shows up that extends beyond workflows, sitting above them to facilitate intent as input, acting as a competent colleague — starting to demonstrate that AI is no longer personal chat but actual personal assistance.

By. Rex M. Lee, Investigative Tech Journalist | Security Advisor | Board Member, Clean Data Alliance

Rex Lee explains how modern sports betting is a structurally loss-driven ecosystem where built-in house edges, parlay math, addictive app design, and AI-driven surveillance ensure most bettors lose money while platforms profit not only from wagers but also from continuous data extraction and behavioral manipulation.

By. Rex M. Lee, Security Advisor | My Smart Privacy | TechTalk Summits Contributor

Security Advisor Rex Lee explains that despite strong cryptography, most blockchain and crypto failures come from traditional human, software, and governance weaknesses—not advanced technologies like AI or quantum computing.

By Daniel W. Rasmus

Many factors can derail “trends”, and a bias toward seeing a trend can blind trend watchers from recognizing other patterns, especially contradictory ones. The year-end trend posts are less about prophecy than pattern recognition. The useful question isn’t “What’s next?” It’s “What changed in the operating conditions that will impact decisions I make in the near-term?” For 2026, the answer is blunt: AI stops being a tool story and becomes an infrastructure story. That shift pulls budgets, governance, architecture, skills, geopolitics, and energy into the same room, and they don’t necessarily all get along.

By Rex M. Lee, Security Advisor & Tech Journalist

Security Advisor and Tech Journalist Rex Lee explains how Rush, Queensrÿche, Orwell, Tron, and The Matrix foresaw today’s AI-driven surveillance state.

By Rex M. Lee, National Security Advisor

National Security Advisor Rex Lee explains how the modern influence economy has fused with fraud, bot networks, and foreign operations—creating a weaponized digital ecosystem that manipulates narratives, distorts reality, and threatens national security.

By Daniel Rasmus, Serious Insights for Techspective.com 

In many boardrooms, a dangerous delusion is taking hold. Executives are championing artificial intelligence by painting illusions of a seamless, frictionless future where knowledge workers become instantly more productive, creative, and compliant. In this case, however, it is AI that’s….

By Rex M. Lee – Security & Privacy Advisor, Investigative Tech Journalist
My Smart Privacy

Cybersecurity expert and Investigative Tech Journalist Rex Lee warns how the United States faces unprecedented AI-driven cyber threats from foreign adversaries at the very moment its top cyber-defense agencies remain stalled without Senate-confirmed leadership.

By Rex M. Lee, Security Advisor

Cybersecurity expert Rex Lee dives into how SIM and eSIM technologies have evolved from passive identifiers into active cyber battlegrounds—fueling global “SIM farm” operations, large-scale fraud, and infrastructure attacks that demand zero-trust security from chip to cloud.