BBC coverage of CEO AI manifestos lands beside real headcount cuts at Block, Atlassian, Coinbase, and Rackspace—interested testimony from people who both sell the future of work and shrink today’s payrolls.

The AI Manifesto Is Becoming the Second Half of the Layoff Memo

Google’s HEIR compiler aims to make encrypted AI inference a practical option—running recommendation, fraud, intrusion, and hotword models on ciphertext so the server never needs the plaintext.

Homomorphic Encryption Is Getting Practical Enough for AI

Cloudflare Gateway can detect MCP traffic, log destinations, apply DLP, and force approved paths through MCP Portals—treating agent tool access as privileged network traffic instead of hoping every client is configured safely.

Notes · August 15, 2026

Notes for August 15, 2026

The AI Manifesto Is Becoming the Second Half of the Layoff Memo

Homomorphic Encryption Is Getting Practical Enough for AI

Cloudflare Is Treating MCP Like Network Traffic That Needs a Firewall