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The boundary between infrastructure provider and application layer is blurring. On August 23, 2026, The Information reported that Nvidia is in discussions to invest in Perplexity AI at a valuation exceeding $30 billion. While these discussions remain unco

The AI-native ERP hit a $1B valuation in under two years by embedding its agent directly into the real-time general ledger. Big Four firms are already on board.

The Federal Trade Commission has initiated at least 13 enforcement actions since launching Operation AI Comply in September 2024. Every one of these cases targets marketing deception-what is commonly called AI washing-rather than the actual behavior of th

The security landscape for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has reached a critical inflection point with the disclosure of CVE-2026-76404. This is the first critical vulnerability identified in a vendor-backed, enterprise-grade MCP server product, marking

The New Jersey Fair Price Protection Act (FPPA), signed into law on July 23, 2026, establishes a significant shift in the liability landscape for developers of autonomous pricing systems. By introducing a private right of action for data-driven pricing vi

The release of Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B shifts the open-weight frontier-just not in the direction the headline scores suggest. Alibaba has shipped a 2.4 trillion-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 95 billion active parameters per token, under a custo

Between July 15 and August 6, 2026, AWS Strands Agents Tools - the first-party tool package for the Strands Agents SDK - received four distinct security advisories. The vulnerabilities range from credential disclosure to arbitrary command execution, but t

The AgentCore Harness Bypass: A Structural Vulnerability A critical vulnerability in the AWS Bedrock AgentCore harness, identified as CVE-2026-18830, has exposed a fundamental flaw in how agentic systems process tool execution requests. With a CVSS score

The Shadow MCP Visibility Gap As Model Context Protocol (MCP) adoption accelerates within enterprise agentic workflows, security teams face a significant visibility challenge: shadow MCP. When developers or automated agents establish direct connections to

The Problem: Prefill and Decode Fighting Over the Same GPUs Standard LLM inference collocates two fundamentally different workloads on the same GPU resources. Prefill is compute-bound-it processes the entire input prompt in parallel using large matrix mul