The Model Context Protocol started as a simple way for AI agents to reach tools. Today, the MCP Dev Summit opens at the University of Toronto with 70 speakers, six tracks, and fifty-plus sessions — the first major in-person gathering of the protocol layer builders who turned an experiment into the foundation of the agent…
CVE-2026-71885: Identity Binding Failure in Bouncy Castle CVE-2026-71885, a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.2) in Bouncy Castle for Java versions prior to 1.86, was disclosed on October 3, 2026. The flaw, categorized as CWE-295, involves improper certificate validation within the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol implementation. Bouncy Castle is the default cryptographic library for many Android…
Cisco surveyed its major enterprise customers at RSA Conference 2026 and found something worth sitting with: 85 percent are experimenting with AI agents, but only 5 percent have moved agentic technology into production. That 80-point gap is not a curiosity. It is the central structural problem in enterprise AI right now, and it points to…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) custodies $114 trillion in securities and, in 2025 alone, processed $4.7 quadrillion in transactions. When an entity of this systemic weight pivots, the market follows. On May 4, 2026, the firm announced the DTCC tokenization service, a platform designed to bring Russell 1000 components, ETFs, and US Treasuries…
The crypto industry has spent years trying to build a better mousetrap for institutional finance. New blockchains, custom validators, vertical integrations—all promising to replace the creaky, legacy plumbing of Wall Street. Ondo Finance is taking a different path: it is simply moving into the house that already exists. By becoming the first tokenization platform to…
The Great Bifurcation Between September 8 and September 11, 2026, the artificial intelligence capital market underwent a definitive split. Four major funding events in four days did not merely signal high activity; they mapped the geography of a new, bifurcated financial reality. On one side, infrastructure labs are absorbing sovereign-scale capital to secure their position…
OpenAI’s $122 billion capital raise, finalized at an $852 billion post-money valuation on March 31, 2026, signals a definitive transition. The company has moved beyond the experimental model lab phase to become a foundational infrastructure utility. This round validates the compute landlord thesis, where value accrues not to the most elegant algorithm, but to the…
What is Agent SSO? Agent SSO is an identity framework that extends traditional Single Sign-On (SSO) concepts to autonomous AI agents. By giving these digital workers a first-class identity at an enterprise Identity Provider (IdP)—the central system that manages user logins—organizations can treat software agents with the same security rigor as human employees. Instead of…
Real-World Assets (RWA) are tangible or traditional financial assets whose ownership rights have been converted into digital tokens on a blockchain, bridging traditional finance and DeFi.
On August 24, 2026, Okta announced the general availability of Agent SSO, shifting how enterprises manage their digital labor force. This update moves away from the legacy practice of treating AI agents as generic service accounts. Instead, Okta is now registering agents that support the Cross App Access (XAA) standard as first-class identities within its…