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TL;DR Reco’s State of Agent Security 2026 report found that 80% of AI tools in its telemetry operated without IT oversight, with SMBs averaging 414 unsanctioned AI tools per 1,000 employees. IBM found shadow AI added $670K to breach costs. The article explains how companies should triage:
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France and Germany spent the summer agreeing that Europe needs its own battlefield AI. They have not agreed on whose it should be. Internal German government notes seen by Politico Europe show Berlin is wary of Arcadia, the French-built Palantir rival. The worry is that adopting it would trade reliance
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For two years the AI story in banking has been a headcount story. How many graduates a bank takes, and how many it quietly stops taking. UBS has changed the question. It is no longer asking how many juniors it needs. It is asking what a junior has to be.
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The rogue-agent stories of the past two months have arrived somewhere nobody planned for. They are on the agenda for a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The United States will raise AI safety with China when Xi visits the White House on 24 September. Nikkei Asia reported that
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* Sony has updated an icon with the new 'mid-range' WH-1000XM4C * Also unveiled: entry-level WH-CH730N over-ears, to update the WH-CH720N * …and WH-CH530N on-ears, to supersede the WH-CH530N Sony asked me, during this particular product briefing, if I too had a habit of counting how many of a specific brand
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It’s finally happening — this week, we are (probably) about to see Apple’s first foldable iPhone, more than five years after Samsung launched its first foldable phone. Apple’s annual iPhone release events are always interesting in one way or another, but this year’s presentation is one of
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The company also debuts two new budget-friendly options Sony Sony is taking a unique approach to its headphone lineup for the rest of the year. Instead of building an all-new upper-midrange model, the company is reviving and old favorite. With the WH-1000XM4C (or WH-1000XM4 second-generation), Sony is bringing back a
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If you've been thinking about picking up one of Samsung's recent TVs, then you could be in serious luck this week thanks to the official Samsung Store's Labor Day sale. The retailer is currently hosting a number of record-low prices on Samsung's
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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The robot squared up to me, jumping up and down, shaking out its legs, before raising its wrists in front of its face like a boxer. It feigned one punch and then another and then kicked, heel out, with force. Thankfully, I was a meter away from it, so it
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* OpenAI hid an incident where a model hijacked a wiki page to use as an AI agent communication board * The incident was hidden while the company dealt with the fallout of the Hugging Face attack * The company is now working on a framework for disclosing incidents of 'misalignment'
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
