AgentsPalo Alto 25B CyberArk Acquisition Agent Identity SecurityPalo Alto Networks·high signalXBlueskyLinkedInCopy linkLargest cybersecurity deal in history, 25B for CyberArk, agent identity governance market categorySourceSource pagePalo Alto Networks↳ Follow the threadPolicy dependency / Stack layerA controlled ablation on a production science agent finds the model choice dominates topology and prompting, and a PPO policy nearly matches it for freearXivPolicy dependency / Stack layerA vision paper separates access from control and argues AI concentrates software power rather than democratizing itarXiv 2608.24720 (submitted 2026-08-25)Stack layer / Threat patternGoogle Cloud Shipped Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services With 50 Skills, 13 Connectors and a Partner Agent MarketplaceGoogle Cloud Blog (corroborated by PRNewswire, 2026-08-25 12:00)Policy dependency / Stack layerHalofy ships an open governance layer for agents with identity, policy, provenance, audit and signed erasureGitHubPolicy dependency / Stack layerGitHub Ships Global Model Policy GA and Auto-Update for Enterprise Plugin MarketplacesGitHub ChangelogPolicy dependency / Stack layerPollen Robotics Opened Pre-Orders for Microduck, a $399 Apache-2.0 Biped You Retrain YourselfPollen Robotics / Hacker NewsStack layer / Threat patternSalesforce and Anthropic Ship Claudeforce, Putting 37 Sales Skills Inside Claude So Sellers Never Open SalesforceSalesforce Newsroom (corroborated by VentureBeat, 2026-08-26)Policy dependency / Threat patternTraccia Launched a Vendor-Neutral Agent Control Plane on OpenTelemetry, Naming Langfuse and Helicone as CompetitorsProduct Hunt