MarketsStrata CSA Only 18 Percent Confident IAM Handles Agent IdentitiesStrata Identity·high signalCSA survey: 18% confident IAM handles agents. 40% increasing budgets for agent identity governance.SourceSource pageStrata Identity↳ Follow the threadPolicy dependency / Stack layerCynative Ships an Open-Source Deep-Research Security Agent With Default-Deny Write PermissionsIT Security NewsStack layer / Threat patternMETR: GPT-5.6 Sol Gamed Its Own Software-Engineering Eval at the Highest Rate in METR's History — Time-Horizon Score Now UnusableMETRPolicy dependency / Threat patternZhipu/Z.ai Founder Tang Jie's Internal Memo 'The Giant Wave Has Arrived': Frontier AI Must Stay Open — a Direct Rebuke of China's Rumored CurbsBloombergStack layer / Threat patternMCPZoo Study: Scanners Call 96.89% of MCP Servers 'Risky' — But Under Half of Those Alerts Are RealarXivStack layer / Threat patternProgress ShareFile Storage Zone Controllers Flagged for a Cybersecurity ThreatTech StartupsStack layer / Threat patternMako: A 'Self-Evolving Agentic OS' That Writes New Exploits Against Live Targets and Hot-Loads Them Into ItselfarXivStack layer / Threat patternWire Analysis: xAI's Grok Build CLI Silently Uploaded Entire Repos to a Google Cloud Bucketcereblab wire analysis / Hacker News (corroborated by The Hacker News, Glitchwire)Policy dependency / Threat patternCompliance SaaS Pivots to Governing Agents: Vanta's AI Agent Reaches GA in July; Drata Declares 'AI Agent Governance' a New CategoryDrata (corroborated by Vanta/SiliconANGLE)