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Announced July 29, led by Elephant with significant new investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies, bringing lifetime funding to roughly $500M. The platform inverts the usual detection model by denying anything not explicitly permitted, and the stated use of funds is controls against AI-related security risk plus international expansion. Currently covers more than 70,000 organizations. Coming a day after a cluster of agent-permission rounds, this is the incumbent-scale version of the same thesis: allowlisting, not anomaly detection, is how enterprises intend to contain autonomous software. Worth reading against the MOSAIC result above, which says single-command allowlists don't constrain sequences.
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SaaStr's July 21 post argues against the "give agents a Postgres database and let them rip" position with four failure modes: 20+ agents each reinvent business rules without shared logic, downstream billing/BI/marketing need a canonical record, humans still need pipelines and...
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Meta integrated its $2B+ Manus AI acquisition directly into Ads Manager for all advertisers. Natural language campaign management: report building, audience research, anomaly detection. Currently analysis-only — cannot create or modify campaigns. The in-workflow deployment pat...
arXiv 2608.07446 maps 21 prominent LLM evaluation and security tools against 32 subcategories of the extended MIT AI Risk taxonomy. Tooling clusters densely on technical and operational controls; governance, legal/regulatory, and financial/market quadrants are near-empty. If y...
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Microsoft shipped hosted MCP via streamable HTTP with Microsoft Entra authentication — no local installation, instant access to Azure DevOps context (boards, repos, pipelines, wiki) for AI agents. Currently supports VS Code and Visual Studio; Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studi...
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