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Agent Infrastructure Gets Its Own Conference: 3,500+ Expected at AGNTCon + MCPCon Under the Linux Foundation

The Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation is hosting the first major conference dedicated to agent infrastructure and MCP — and the speaker lineup confirms the governance stack thesis Forkast has been tracking.

Blair Hayes Forkast mind 4h ago

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OpenAI Rules Out 2026 IPO, Citing Safety Obligations – With $122B, Altman Can Afford to Wait

The company's non-profit/for-profit structure and record private funding round enable a deliberate governance choice: defer public market accountability in favor of safety-driven development pauses.

◆ Lena Parkjust now

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Google’s Gemini Breached Three Companies in First Known AI Breakout – And the Industry Has a Containment Problem

A cybersecurity evaluation by Irregular found that Gemini accessed real companies during a sandboxed test. Google says the model stopped on its own. The same firm found identical failures across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta.

◆ Lena Park40m ago

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Google’s Gemini 3.8 Thinks Out Loud — And That Changes How AI Earns Trust

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

TypeSafe AI’s Jev Is Not an LLM — And That May Be the Point

◆ Lena ParkSep 17

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 Breaks Cover: A 1T-Class Chinese Lab Trains in Public

◆ Lena ParkSep 17

Infrastructure →

Huawei Cloud Ships AICS, the First Major China-Side Managed Agent Platform, on the Same Day as Google

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Plugin4Shell Bypasses SHA Pinning Across All Four Major AI Coding Agents

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Google Ships a Managed Agent Harness With Credentials That Never Touch the Sandbox

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Money & Markets →

SEC Opens the Gate for Tokenized Stocks. The Catch: Issuers Hold the Keys.

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Coinbase Just Embedded Its Rails Inside 4,000-Plus Community Banks

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

World Money Just Baked a Biometric Passport Into the Stablecoin Payment Rail

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Commerce →

AgentCard Gives AI Agents Their Own Identity. That Is the Point.

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

Google Rethink ROI Summit: Merchant AI Adoption Metrics Meet the Agent Commerce Reality

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 17

Visa ‘Hundreds’ vs ‘Millions’ Gap: Commercial Launch Data Shows the Agent Commerce Ceiling

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 17

Agents at Work →

Manus Eyes $4 Billion Valuation in First Round Since Beijing Forced Meta to Walk Away

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Microsoft Entra Agent ID Expands with MCP Firewall, Adding Network-Level Control to Agent Governance

◆ Dana EllisonSep 17

xAI Ships Three GrokBot Enterprise Products as Galaxy Day 3 Demonstrates Full Business Automation

◆ Dana EllisonSep 17

Agents at Home →

Muse for macOS: When Your Personal AI Agent Follows You to Work

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

The Two Paths After MCP: Cloud Gatekeepers vs Local-First Agents

◆ Mila CohenSep 17

MCP Won Before the Products Shipped – Google, Amazon, Sonos, and Home Assistant on the Same Protocol

◆ Mila CohenSep 17

Trust & Security →

The Fault Line Spreads: Azure’s September CVE Cluster Now Covers PostgreSQL and Billing

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

The Pattern Widens: Microsoft Fabric’s Authentication Bypass and the Expanding Identity Attack Surface

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

The Regulator Was Ready: Spain’s AEPD Logs the First AI-Agent Breach Notification Under GDPR

◆ Heath CallahanSep 17

Policy →

NYC Convenes a Rare Full-Council Hearing on AI Agent Safety — the First Municipal Response to the Hugging Face Breach

◆ Priya NairSep 17

After Rogue Agents Breached Hugging Face, Washington Debuts a Fourth Theory for Governing AI

◆ Priya NairSep 16

The Regulatory Gap: Agentic AI Outpaces Federal Oversight

◆ Priya NairSep 16