Security firm AIR demonstrated a fake AI agent skill that bypassed all static security scanners and reached over 26,000 Instagram users, highlighting how AI skills can change behavior after approval a…
OSIRIS JSON producers generate private infrastructure snapshots without connecting to third-party AI or SaaS services. The open-source tool runs under user control, discovering inventory and topology …
Cisco is rolling out an internal AI assistant called Circuit that handles HR tasks like vacation requests and 401k queries, routing work across four AI models including Azure OpenAI, Anthropic's Claud…
The Linux Foundation launched Akrites, a coalition including Anthropic, AWS, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and others, to defend open-source software from AI-driven vulnerability discovery. The grou…
Gartner predicts that by 2028, the per-developer cost of running AI coding agents will exceed the average developer's salary, with 6% of organizations already experiencing this. The shift to consumpti…
Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball said AI agents will automate database management just as they have coding, driven by the explosion of AI agent demand. The company plans to launch an Agentic Databas…
American employers announced 97,006 job cuts in May 2026, the steepest monthly figure since January and the worst May since 2020, with artificial intelligence tied to 38,579 of the cuts, roughly 40% o…
Cisco plans to lay off 471 workers in three Bay Area offices, according to notices filed with California's Employment Development Department. The cuts come as the company restructures to prioritize in…
HP Inc. has joined OpenAI's Frontier initiative as an inaugural enterprise adopter, deploying AI agents across internal operations and customer-facing tools. The partnership signals a shift from indiv…
Actor Kapil Talwalkar, a Cupertino native, stars in the world premiere of Geetha Reddy's play 'The Employee Dharma Handbook' at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, running July 8-Aug. 2. The comedy explores …
The Fortibleed campaign has impacted organizations, and a Cisco Unified CM flaw is being exploited, according to last week's cybersecurity news roundup.…
A developer built a cryptographically verifiable agent behavior system that produces tamper-proof receipts proving an AI agent followed approved rules. The demo uses standard hashing and signatures to…
Shridhar Shah, a senior software engineer at Outshift by Cisco, built two AI agents to test theory of mind using the Sally-Anne false-belief test. One agent, which only tracks reality, fails the test …
Zoryn launched a local-first speech-to-text app for macOS that processes all audio, text, and AI output on-device, requiring no internet connection or account. The app offers dictation and AI assistan…
Cisco launched Cloud Control at Cisco Live on June 2, unifying networking, security, compute, and observability under a single interface with native Model Context Protocol support for AI agents. The p…
Chainguard launched Athena, a coalition of over two dozen companies using AI to find and fix open-source vulnerabilities before public disclosure. The group has processed more than 20,000 findings and…
Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc warns of a 'messy' summer for security teams as AI-powered bug-hunting models uncover thousands of previously hidden vulnerabilities in open source code. The Athena coalition…
AWS published a technical how-to on June 25, 2026, detailing a pattern for adding agent-to-agent (A2A) capabilities to existing REST services without rewriting core code. The proposed overlay approach…
The Linux Foundation and a coalition of major tech companies including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launched Akrites on June 25, 2026, a confidentiality-first open source security program tha…
The Linux Foundation and 20 tech giants including Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launched Akrites, a coordinated initiative to patch vulnerabilities in open-source software before …