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Agents at Work
The Cisco AI POD for Splunk brings agentic workloads into the enterprise data center — forcing CIOs to choose between the agility of managed cloud and the sovereignty of their own perimeter.
◆ Dana Ellison
Infrastructure
Four major vendors shipped standalone agent governance products within weeks. The pattern points to something bigger than feature announcements.
◆ Blair Hayes
Models
The $25.5B chipmaker raised $912M on the STAR Market, but its prospectus reveals a structural dependency that turns the sovereign AI narrative inside out.
◆ Lena Park
Agents at Work
The DoD is buying reasoning models. The enterprise is deploying autonomous agents. The safety standards for the leap between them don't exist yet.
◆ Dana Ellison
Money & Markets
The CEA released an interactive tool debunking the banking lobby's deposit flight narrative 30 minutes before the Senate vote. It wasn't enough.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Trust & Security
Apple's stateless Private Cloud Compute and Google's stateful consumer Gemini represent fundamentally different answers to where your data lives, who can access it, and what you can verify.
◆ Heath Callahan
Commerce
Any seller already on Stripe automatically supports agent checkout — no new integration required. That makes the SPT the most widely deployed agentic payment primitive by default.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Trust & Security
A SQL injection in Cisco Secure Email Gateway's email parsing logic gives remote attackers root command execution on the appliance that validates every email-based identity flow in the enterprise.
◆ Heath Callahan
Trust & Security
Coordinated AI agent swarms built on OpenAI Codex and DeepSeek by Russian-speaking actors industrialized exploitation of 395 organizations across 48 countries, disregarding their own 28-country exclusion list.
◆ Heath Callahan
Infrastructure
OpenAI's usage grew 60-fold in under a year. The reliability layer underneath the agent stack just became a twelve-billion-dollar bet.
◆ Blair Hayes
