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Akamai's State of the Internet report on September 22 argues for behavioral governance of nonhuman actors over identity management, and reports more than 6% of chatbot conversations containing sensitive data. Vendor research, so weigh it accordingly, but the extension permission-drift number is specific enough to turn into an audit query this week.
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Cloudflare's Stephanie Cohen told SaaStr AI 2026 that 50% of HTML requests are already non-human, tracking toward 66% by year-end. (SaaStr) By December, two out of three requests to your marketing site will be a machine. Your CSS is being rendered for nobody. Your hero animati...
Akamai disclosed SQL injection in the Apache Doris MCP server, an unauthenticated metadata-exfiltration flaw in Alibaba's RDS MCP, and a potential takeover in Apache Pinot's MCP. The failure modes are boring and that's the point. Unsanitized SQL input, missing authentication,...
Twelve months ago, OpenAI led Anthropic by 41 points in enterprise adoption. Today that gap is 8. Enterprise Technology Research's survey of roughly 500 respondents shows OpenAI dropping from 62% adoption (September 2025) to 56% (March 2026) while Anthropic surged from 21% to...
Ara Kharazian, who runs the Ramp AI Index, posted September 16 that OpenAI's growth is coming from shifts off GPT-5.6 Sol, off some Anthropic models, and from net-new usage, reading it as Anthropic's pace-the-frontier position costing it frontier adoption. That cuts against th...
Per-token prices went down at both labs. Subscriptions are draining faster at both labs. Those aren't in tension once you look at token counts. On the OpenAI side, r/OpenAI collected reports from Linux.do and NodeSeek alleging Astra consumes more Plus quota than its published...
The loudest enterprise-agent number of the quarter falls apart when you divide it. SaaStr's breakdown of Salesforce Q2 FY27 (reported August 26, stock up 23%) puts cRPO at $33.5B growing 14% against 11% revenue growth. Agentforce ARR passed $1.5B at +240% on 3.2 billion agenti...
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