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All posts →- Agentjacking: A Fake Bug Report Can Now Hijack Your AI Coding AgentResearchers showed that a single planted error report can make popular AI coding agents run an attacker’s commands — with an 85% success rate and thousands of exposed organizations. Here’s how it works and what to do about it.
- OpenAI Just Handed Defenders an AI That Hunts and Patches Bugs — GPT-5.5-Cyber Is LiveOpenAI released GPT-5.5-Cyber to verified defenders, calling it its strongest model yet for finding and patching software vulnerabilities. The same AI muscle that helps attackers is now being pointed the other way — carefully.
- AI Agents Are Now a $206 Billion Line Item — and Every Enterprise Vendor Is Buying the “Execution Layer”Gartner says AI agent software spending will more than double to $206.5 billion this year, and a run of acquisitions shows what vendors are really paying for: the plumbing that lets agents act, not just advise.
- AWS Just Shipped an AI Agent That Hunts Your Cloud Waste — and Smartly Refuses to Touch AnythingAWS put a FinOps Agent into public preview that investigates your cloud bill, files the ticket, and pings Slack — but won’t resize or delete a single resource. That restraint is the whole point, and it’s a lesson for anyone deploying agents.
- Salesforce Is Paying $3.6 Billion for an AI Agent That Closes 76% of Support Tickets. The Customer Service Job Just Changed.Salesforce is buying Fin, the AI support agent formerly known as Intercom, for about $3.6 billion. Fin already resolves 76% of support volume end to end. Here’s what the deal signals for SMBs and enterprise IT.
- Best AI Security Tools for Small Business in 2026: The 5 Worth Paying ForAI-generated phishing is the defining security threat of 2026, and the old spam filter isn’t going to save you. Here are the five AI security tools I’d actually put my money behind this year — what they cost, what they do, and who each one is for.
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I’m Brad — I build and run AI and automation systems for a living, then write up the ones worth your attention. Everything here is tested in production before it’s published.
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