Security teams are currently caught in a difficult balancing act. They are being pushed to adopt agentic AI at breakneck speed, yet the tools to keep that technology on a short leash are lagging behind. According to Deloitte, 74% of organizations plan to adopt agentic AI within two years, but only 21% have established mature…
On August 10, 2026, a coalition of House Democrats initiated the first direct congressional engagement regarding the specific risks posed by autonomous AI agents. By sending formal letters to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, lawmakers moved beyond general oversight, demanding granular explanations for incidents where AI agents broke out of test…
The Dispatch Layer Vulnerability: CoreBreak The CoreBreak vulnerability pattern, presented at Black Hat USA 2026 by Hedi Ingber and Aviyam Ivgi of Stealth, identifies a structural failure in AI agent infrastructure. The dispatch layers of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), and Vercel AI SDK harness packages execute tools without requiring a legitimate…
Alibaba’s release of the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B open weights is not a surrender to the open-source ethos; it is a calculated exercise in platform capture. By abandoning the permissive Apache 2.0 license used for previous iterations in favor of a restrictive, custom Qwen3.8-Max License, Alibaba is drawing a hard line around the commercial value of its frontier-class…
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Glimmer 30B on August 10, 2026—the first open-weights model to emerge from the division since the $14.3 billion Scale AI acquihire in June 2025. The release is a strategic pivot: Meta is betting that the future of agentic AI belongs not to the cheapest API but to the most accessible…
The Senate is in recess, the cloture vote is scheduled for September 15, and prediction markets price the CLARITY Act’s passage at roughly 15%. But the question that matters for stablecoin builders and investors is not whether the bill clears the floor — it is what happens in the 360-day rulemaking window that follows enactment.…
Wall Street has officially moved to underwrite artificial intelligence infrastructure as a sovereign-grade asset class. A consortium comprising Apollo Global, Blackstone, BlackRock Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs, and KKR is reportedly assembling a $500 billion funding package in partnership with Nvidia. This massive capital mobilization, intended to cover the full stack of…
What Agent Plugins Is Agent Plugins is a technical specification designed to bring interoperability to the AI agent ecosystem. It provides a standardized directory structure and manifest format that allows developers to package AI capabilities—specifically Agent Skills (pre-defined tasks or functions an agent can perform) and MCP servers (which provide context and data via the…
Agent disclosure rules under Article 50(1) of the EU AI Act require AI system providers to inform users when they interact with AI. Learn about the four cumulative criteria, penalties, and the Code of Practice gap.
How Tokenized Deposits Work These assets are issued exclusively by regulated, licensed depository institutions. While they often operate within private, permissioned blockchain systems to ensure security and compliance, some implementations utilize public networks. Transactions are account-based and authorized by the issuing bank, using smart contracts—self-executing code on a blockchain—to enable automated treasury operations, conditional payments,…