Enterprise teams are running AI agents that write code, drive browsers, answer customer calls, manage cloud infrastructure, and query data warehouses with standing credentials. A new independent assessment of 100 production agents finds that nearly all of them carry the conditions for a single hostile document to take them over. The AI Risk Quadrant (AIRQ) report, a 2026 Q2 edition produced by independent researchers, scores 100 commercial and publicly available AI agents across three dimensions: … More
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