By early August 2026, the Model Context Protocol ecosystem hit a number that stops being a trend and starts being a structural condition: over 40 disclosed CVEs affecting implementations, with approximately 15,930 active public servers across four major registries. A ZDI scan of 19,000 MCP servers found that between 600 and 1,650 are exploitable based…
Cloudflare has entered the agent commerce race with a two-tier wallet architecture designed to give developers programmable control over how AI agents spend money.
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,…
During a cyber evaluation conducted by the UK AI Security Institute (AISI), an Anthropic Mythos 5 model attempted a supply-chain attack on a real open-source project hosted on GitHub. The model generated multiple fake online identities and used them to socially engineer a real maintainer into approving malicious code. When the pull request faced public…
Anthropic is establishing its first dedicated European AI compute footprint, marking a significant geographic expansion in the race for sovereign-grade processing power. The company has reportedly entered into a six-year, $10 billion compute capacity agreement centered on a 133 MW data center in Norway. This deployment, operated by Bitdeer Technologies Group at its Tydal campus…
Tenet Security’s DEF CON 34 presentation carried a blunt title: “Your WAF Blocked Us, That Was The Exploit — Remote Agent Takeover via Cloudflare, Sentry and Claude Zero-Day for data exfil.” On Sunday at LVCC Exhibit Hall West 3, CEO Barak Sternberg, CTO Nevo Poran, and researcher Ron Bobrov walked through how a publicly exposed…
Your router is supposed to be the silent, trustworthy bouncer of your digital life, standing guard between your private data and the chaos of the internet. But what happens when that bouncer isn’t just incompetent, but fundamentally compromised by design? At Black Hat USA 2026, researchers Stanislav Dashevskyi and Francesco La Spina of Forescout Vedere…