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Hosts: James Okafor & Maya Chen
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• Welcome to Pivot 5 for Saturday, May 9th, 2026. I'm James Okafor.
• And I'm Maya Chen. Today: the IMF puts AI cyberattacks on the systemic risk list, DeepSeek V4 detonates another pricing floor, and Pennsylvania takes ...
• Let's start with the IMF. In their latest Global Financial Stability update, they're explicitly naming AI-driven cyberattacks as a systemic threat to ...
• It is. The data tells a different story than a year ago. The IMF cites a sharp rise in AI-enabled intrusions at banks and payment infrastructure, and ...
• The real story isn't the headline warning. It's that the IMF is asking for new resilience standards — stress tests for AI-driven attacks, mandatory in...
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