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Issue #4: An Autonomous Agent Hacked McKinsey in 2 Hours

CodeWall's autonomous agent found SQL injection in McKinsey's Lilli AI platform, gaining read/write access to 46.5M messages. Plus: Amazon's AI code governance, Claude 1M context GA, METR's SWE-bench reality check, and Agent Browser Protocol.

Issue #3: LangChain Just Open-Sourced a Claude Code Replacement

LangChain releases Deep Agents, an MIT-licensed Claude Code alternative built on LangGraph. Works with any model. Plus: GPT-5.4 native computer use, Clinejection supply chain attack, Karpathy's autoresearch, and Shannon AI pentester.

Issue #2: Claude Code Is Picking Your Stack

Researchers analyzed 2,430 Claude Code responses and found it is quietly building the default developer stack.

Issue #1: Mercury 2, Agentic IDEs & The Plumbing Era

February 25, 2026

Diffusion models are coming for LLMs. The agentic IDE war is heating up. Hugging Face is standardizing agent skills.

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