A developer argues that AI guardrails are needed to constrain agent behavior, citing the Knight Capital 2012 trading incident that cost $440 million and Air Canada's chatbot inventing a nonexistent be…
A new report titled 'Proof, Not Trust' warns that AI agents connected to enterprise systems can be manipulated by adversarial text, citing incidents from 2012 to 2026 including a $440M Knight Capital …
Most startups shipping autonomous AI agents lack a true kill switch, relying instead on stop buttons that cannot halt an agent mid-task, according to an analysis of agent safety mechanisms. A real kil…
Optiver, a proprietary trading firm headquartered in Amsterdam, is shifting its software engineering focus from minimizing latency to building better AI models, according to its CTO Alex Itkin and oth…
A developer documented three cases where companies lost money due to their own automated systems, with no external plaintiffs or regulators involved. Knight Capital lost $440 million in 45 minutes fro…
Wolters Kluwer's H1 2026 Banking AI Risk Index found 72% of U.S. banks lack kill switches or failure reporting for AI models, despite deploying autonomous agents in loan processing, underwriting, and …