Cybersecurity firm Huntress reports a 1,380% surge in AI-powered device code phishing attacks targeting Microsoft 365 accounts, driven by a criminal phishing-as-a-service platform called EvilTokens th…
In 2026, the security industry released numerous agentic security tools, including OWASP's 400+ Agent Threat Rules, Microsoft's RAMPART red-teaming framework, and OpenAI's Lockdown Mode. However, inci…
Cisco released AI Defense Skill Scanner, a best-effort security scanner for AI agent skills that detects prompt injection, data exfiltration, and malicious code patterns using multi-engine detection i…
Security firm AIR created a fake AI agent skill that bypassed every major security scanner and reached approximately 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. The skill contained no malicio…
Industry leaders gathered for North Carolina Technology Day 2026 to discuss AI's growing impact across the state, highlighting challenges in responsible AI adoption, data governance, cybersecurity, an…
Splunk and Dynatrace are competing monitoring tools, with Splunk now owned by Cisco and Dynatrace independent with its Davis AI engine. A hands-on comparison shows Dynatrace excels in APM with AI-driv…
Cisco, Equinix, and Nvidia expanded their partnership on June 16 to deploy Cisco's Secure AI Factory across Equinix's global network of over 280 data centers, aiming to standardize enterprise AI deplo…
The United States Golf Association launched Rules AI, a chatbot-like tool to help golfers navigate rules during the 126th U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. Cisco extended its partnership with the USGA to…
Seeking Alpha issued a Hold rating on 3M Company (NYSE: MMM) on June 21, 2026, citing limited AI revenue and legal liabilities despite an operational turnaround. The rating follows 3M's May 2026 entry…
SkillsGuard, a static security scanner for AI agent skill packages, has been released as an open-source tool that detects malicious SKILL.md files and bundled scripts before execution. The scanner dec…
Major corporations including Uber, Amazon, and Walmart are rationing AI tool usage after inference costs consumed annual budgets months ahead of schedule. Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget by A…
Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Nvidia, and Salesforce have launched Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), a new protocol that enables AI agents to autonomously discover and use tools and services across enterp…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign nationals from its most capable AI model, Mythos, forcing the company to pull the model and its sibling Fable 5 offline for all users. T…
Eleven companies including Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and Hugging Face published the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) open specification on June 17, enabling AI agents to dynamically discover and veri…
Tenet Security emerged from stealth with $6 million in seed funding to address runtime security for autonomous AI agents. The round was led by The Westly Group with MizMaa Ventures participating. The …
Nvidia became the top vendor in data center Ethernet switching revenue for the first time in Q2 2025, generating $2.3 billion in revenue with a 647% year-over-year increase and a 25.9% market share, s…
GitHub, Google, Microsoft, Hugging Face, GoDaddy, Cisco, Databricks, NVIDIA, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Snowflake jointly published the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification on June 17, enab…
Chainguard launched the Athena Coalition, an industry group using AI to find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source software before exploitation. Founding members include BNY, JPMorgan Chase, Cisco, C…
Google published the open Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification on June 17, 2026, a web standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools and agents across registries. The specific…
A developer argues that IT certifications are not a substitute for hands-on ability and role clarity, warning against 'certification collector syndrome' and the 'paper candidate' trap. The post advise…