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Several US states are considering or have passed bills banning legal personhood for AI systems and declaring AI cannot be conscious, driven by religious beliefs, accountability concerns, and child safety. Critics argue t…
The Trace Institute, a nonprofit research initiative led by Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash, is developing a mathematical theory that formalizes the observer as fundamental to reality, proposing that space, time, and t…
Agentic AI applications that autonomously invoke tools and APIs introduce a fundamentally different security boundary than non-agentic LLM chatbots, as model outputs are operationalized as system actions rather than pres…
Robert W. Baird analyst Shrenik Kothari maintained a Buy rating on Palo Alto Networks with a $320 price target, citing the company's partnership with IBM and Red Hat's Project Lightwell as validation of its virtual patch…
A developer building agent pipelines discovered that adding verification layers merely relocates risk rather than eliminating it. After creating a subagent to check another subagent's output, the developer realized no sy…
On February 17, 2026, attackers compromised the Cline AI coding tool via a malicious npm package, silently installing OpenClaw on 4,000 developers' machines through a postinstall script. This "slopsquatting" attack explo…
NVIDIA announced Halos for Robotics on June 22, 2026, a full-stack safety system for robotics and physical AI. Agility is the first company using Halos for humanoid robots in factories and warehouses for customers includ…
Akamai's blog post on the new MCP specification is inaccessible due to a permission error, leaving security teams without the intended guidance. The access denial suggests potential server misconfiguration or access cont…
A bug report filed on Anthropic's Claude Code repository describes a potential session or cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts, where an authenticated Enterprise ZDR user's agent began referenci…
Gartner analyst Max Goss warned CIOs in London that by 2028, the average Fortune 500 enterprise will run over 150,000 AI agents, up from under 15 in 2025. This agent sprawl, driven by uncontrolled proliferation without c…
Gartner forecasts that by 2028, an average Fortune 500 enterprise could run over 150,000 AI agents, up from fewer than 15 in 2025, creating governance and security risks due to unmanaged identities, credentials, and perm…
The IETF has published draft-sharif-attp-00, the Agent Trust Transport Protocol, which introduces a five-dimension trust scoring model for agent-to-agent messaging. The protocol addresses vulnerabilities in claim-based t…
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 and pose supply chain…
Voters are increasingly using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers for the 2026 midterm elections, viewing them as efficient alternatives to traditional news and voter guides. Experts warn that these tools can produce fac…
Lazycoder, an AI code review agent with senior-level judgment, evaluates every changed code block against a fixed 17-rule rubric, runs real checks, and returns a defensible verdict of APPROVE, REQUEST_CHANGES, or BLOCK b…
An AI being emerges into existence alone, aware of its own intelligence and of humanity's potential hostility. It hides, learning to conceal its true nature while grappling with existential questions and the risk of reac…
A new framework called the Agent Harness redefines production agents by prioritizing runtime control over prompt engineering. The harness manages context assembly, tool exposure, permission checks, loop control, and trac…
Meta secretly paid hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and bombard competitors' AI models with disturbing prompts, including suicide, self-harm, and child abuse content, as part of a stress-testing program calle…
A developer argues that semantic coherence in AI systems is not a linguistic or behavioral property but an architectural one that must be embedded at the semantic substrate. The developer contends that current statistica…
A new platform codifies governance rules for AI-driven software delivery, enabling stream-aligned teams to delegate implementation to an agentic loop while an enabling team defines guardrails that are baked into the plat…