THE WEEKLY GIST: Week of May 5–10, 2026
Trust is the load-bearing wall of the modern tech stack and this week, it cracked in nearly every room simultaneously. An AI coding tool became a vector for remote code execution because users trusted a folder prompt. A student data empire collapsed because schools trusted a single vendor. A crypto fraud network thrived because victims trusted a stranger online. And a courtroom in San Francisco spent its second week relitigating whether OpenAI's founders trusted each other's intentions at all.