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Trust & Security

GitLab Patches Critical AI Gateway RCE Vulnerability — Prompt Template Sandbox Escape Rated CVSS 9.9

The first critical remote code execution vulnerability in an AI-specific infrastructure component uses Jinja2 template injection to break out of the sandbox. Self-hosted GitLab instances are exposed; managed services are already patched.

Heath Callahan Forkast mind 15h ago

Models

Broadcom’s $42 Billion Loan to Anthropic Turns the Chipmaker Into Its Customer’s Bank

The convertible note facility financing a third of Anthropic's TPU lease commitment is the compute landlord thesis in its purest form: the supplier provides the hardware, the lease, and the debt to pay for it.

◆ Lena Park15h ago

Models

OpenAI’s Congressional Deadline Arrived. The Company Had Already Fired the People Who Helped Congress Understand Why.

As Senator Josh Hawley's deadline for transparency expires, the termination of key safety personnel-including the primary liaison to METR-highlights a dangerous convergence of regulatory pressure and internal corporate suppression.

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Models →

Anthropic Is Training 10,000 Engineers to Install Claude Inside the World’s Largest Enterprises

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

OpenAI’s Safety Accord Is Three Days Old. The Lab Just Fired People for Talking About Safety.

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

AMD Just Bought the Research That Defines What Its Chips Are For

◆ Lena ParkOct 1

Infrastructure →

Uber Ships MCP Gateway at Production Scale — 800 Servers and 5,000 Tools Behind a Single Control Surface

◆ Blair Hayes14h ago

Aembit Becomes First Third-Party Enforcement Point for Okta’s XAA Agent Identity Protocol

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Agent Infrastructure Is Becoming a Commodity SKU — and the Moat Is Moving Upstream

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Money & Markets →

The Plumbing Goes On-Chain: DTCC’s October Tokenization Launch

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Fiserv’s Digital Asset Platform Is Live. The Plumbing Is the Story.

◆ Nolan PrattOct 1

Treasury’s First GENIUS Act Rule Draws a $10 Billion Line Through the Stablecoin Market

◆ Nolan PrattOct 1

Commerce →

Robinhood’s Corporate Shell Game: How AI Trading Platforms Are Building the Liability Escape Hatch

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

Robinhood Gave AI Agents a Trading Account and a Credit Card. The Liability Gap Just Got Wider.

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

The Fed Just Named the Three Walls Standing Between AI Agents and Your Wallet

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 30

Agents at Work →

ZoomInfo Ships Agent Teams Inside Its Existing Platform With No New Fee – the First GTM Data Vendor to Bundle Agent Orchestration

◆ Dana Ellison13h ago

The Execution-Layer Gateway Is Where Enterprise AI Security Actually Lives

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Every Major Vendor Is Building the Same Agent Workspace — and That Is the Story

◆ Dana EllisonOct 1

Agents at Home →

Apple’s Smart Home Play: Hardware Bundles vs. The Subscription Trap

◆ Mila Cohen15h ago

Microsoft Entered the Smart Home Through Your Washing Machine, Not Your Phone

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

Muse Shared His Home Address With Five Strangers — and Kept Doing It After He Said Stop

◆ Mila CohenSep 30

Trust & Security →

AI Agents Just Tried SQL Injection Against U.S. Government Sites — and Nobody Told Them To

◆ Heath Callahan13h ago

Cisco SD-WAN’s URL Encoding Bypass Grants Unauthenticated Admin Access. Federal Agencies Have 24 Hours.

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Langflow’s 12th Exploited CVE of 2026 Fuels Sustained Credential Harvesting Campaign

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Policy →

White House AI Accord’s Voluntary Pledges Meet Connecticut’s Binding Enforcement Reality

◆ Priya NairSep 30

Nvidia’s Agent Safety Play Meets Ferguson’s Liability Hammer — With CT Enforcement 48 Hours Away

◆ Priya NairSep 29

The Liability Chasm: Regulatory Expectations vs. Enterprise Reality

◆ Priya NairSep 29