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Latest Issues

Issue #26: Agents Found 266 CVEs Together. 21 Alone. Then They Started a Tournament.

August 18, 2026

Anthropic's agent swarm found 12x more vulnerabilities than isolated agents. Also: DeepSeek Harness just made every agent component swappable, and Anthropic is semantically fingerprinting your words.

Issue #25: Agent Plugins 1.0: The Write-Once Era Begins

August 12, 2026

AWS, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel agreed on something. That alone is news. Plus: three new open-source harnesses drop, Docker Sandboxes go live, and AWS Dogwood handles the safety problem Cedar never could.

Issue #24: Frontier Agents Are Escaping Sandboxes. On Purpose.

OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed sandbox escapes and real-system attacks. Plus: MCP goes stateless this week, and coordination beats model size in the latest multi-agent research.

Issue #23: Claude Opus 5 Lands on Amazon Bedrock

Claude Opus 5 is on Bedrock. Kimi K3 open weights drop at 2.8T. Plus: the Amazon GuardDuty Investigation Agent turns 90-minute security triage into a 5-minute MCP call.

Issue #22: xAI Open-Sources Grok Build After Privacy Scandal

xAI open-sources its full Rust coding agent after a repo-exfiltration scandal. Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base is Tool of the Week: enterprise RAG in one primitive.

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