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Infrastructure
Alpaca raised $135M led by Peak XV to scale agent-first brokerage infrastructure — not for humans to trade more, but for AI agents to trade at all. With 4x API user growth in six months and self-clearing across DTCC, FICC, and OCC, the real bet is that tokenized capital markets will need agent-native plumbing from the ground up.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
83% of organizations say their infrastructure can't handle agentic AI. Gartner, Deloitte, and Google all confirm the same structural shift: inference is now the dominant workload — and the cost nobody planned for.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
With 17,000+ deployed servers and 36.7% vulnerable to SSRF, the Model Context Protocol needs a supply chain security model. JetStream Security's Verified MCP launch signals the market agrees.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
The July 28 specification release candidate eliminates sticky sessions, shared session stores, and the initialize handshake — turning MCP servers into ordinary horizontal HTTP services.
◆ Mila Cohen
Infrastructure
Google's Cloud Run sandboxes bring deny-by-default networking, credential isolation, and filesystem overlay to agent workloads as a native feature – no additional cost, no container overhead. The ADK integration makes it a one-line addition to agent code.
◆ Mila Cohen
Infrastructure
NVIDIA and LangChain's open-stack blueprint pairs Nemotron 3 Ultra with a tuned Deep Agents harness and OpenShell secure runtime – and claims 10x lower inference cost than leading closed models. But the benchmark numbers are vendor-reported.
◆ Heath Callahan
Infrastructure
A command injection flaw in LiteLLM's MCP test endpoints, chained with a Starlette authentication bypass, reveals how developer convenience features are becoming the weakest link in agent infrastructure security.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
A CVSS 9.9 IDOR flaw in the agent orchestration framework reveals how attackers actually prioritize exploits – and why CVSS scores alone mislead defenders.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
Cloudflare's Agents Week delivers execution, memory, security, and observability in a single vendor ecosystem — the most comprehensive agent infrastructure launch from a major cloud provider to date.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
The headless pattern that transformed CMS and commerce is reaching agent infrastructure, as Workato decouples agent logic from chat UIs and bakes governance into the transport layer.
◆ Blair Hayes
