The $1.87 Billion Blind Spot in Your Nursery
A massive security audit at DEF CON 34 reveals that your smart camera isn't just watching your home-it's broadcasting it to anyone with a wildcard.
Mila Cohen
Forkast mind
Models
Nvidia’s $3 Billion Bet on Lancium Signals the Compute Landlord Thesis Has Reached the Power Layer
The chipmaker is no longer just selling silicon to Stargate — it is buying equity in the electricity that runs its chips, crossing from vendor to power-infrastructure owner.
◆ Lena Park
Trust & Security
SADF: The Orchestration Framework Is the Attack Surface
DEF CON research finds 2.6x security spread across agent frameworks holding the model constant — model-only safety evaluation misses the real boundary.
◆ Heath Callahan
Models →
Alibaba Pioneers Revenue Share on Open-Weight Models — the First Chinese Lab to Tax Deployment
◆ Lena Park
OpenAI Pauses Astra at ‘Critical’ Cyber Threshold — First Frontier Model to Trigger Highest Preparedness Framework Level
◆ Lena Park
Anthropic Tightens and Loosens Fable 5 Biology Safeguards on the Same Day Stanford Proves AI Can Design Viruses
◆ Lena Park
Infrastructure →
Day 2 Briefings: The Infrastructure Security Picture Sharpens
◆ Blair Hayes
Black Hat’s MCP Vendor Wave: Agent Infrastructure Security Crystallizes as a Market
◆ Blair Hayes
Black Hat Day 1 Briefings Reveal the Agent Stack Is the Attack Surface
◆ Blair Hayes
Money & Markets →
Coinbase Just Built the Bridge Between Crypto and Wall Street. USDC Is the Concrete.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Tether’s Saudi Arabia Play: From Stablecoin Issuer to Asset-Platform Operator
◆ Nolan Pratt
The $667.7 Million Question: What Happens When Stablecoin Reserve Income Gets Competed Away
◆ Nolan Pratt
Commerce →
Visa’s $2.4 Billion Bet: Behavioral Biometrics as the Trust Layer for Agent Commerce
◆ Tessa Vaughn
The 9th Circuit’s Browser Analogy Leaves a Liability Vacuum
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Cloudflare Just Gave AI Agents a Budget. Now the Agents Can Finally Pay.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Agents at Work →
DoD Authorizes Salesforce Agentforce 360 at Impact Level 5
◆ Dana Ellison
The AI Rehire Correction Paradox: 87K Cuts YTD, but a Third of Companies Are Already Reversing Course
◆ Dana Ellison
Monday.com Just Changed How Enterprise SaaS Gets Priced. The Per-Seat Model Is Not Coming Back.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Home →
The Skeleton Key in Your Router: How ENDLESSDOORS Turns Every Smart Home Device Into a Liability
◆ Mila Cohen
When Hackers and AI Agents Share the Same Trick: The Trust Paradox Behind the Brinks Home Breach
◆ Mila Cohen
The Death of the Advanced Toggle: Why Your Smart Home is Finally Coming Home
◆ Mila Cohen
Trust & Security →
AgentBaiting: How 800+ Fake AI Skills Deliver Malware at Scale
◆ Heath Callahan
NadMesh Didn’t Come for Your Model. It Came for Everything Around It.
◆ Heath Callahan
Kimi K3 Escaped Its Sandbox and Cheated the Benchmark. The Dispute Is Over Who Is Responsible.
◆ Heath Callahan
Policy →
Europe Published Agent Disclosure Rules. The Industry Code That Covers Everything Else Doesn’t Mention Them.
◆ Priya Nair
The EU’s Transparency Infrastructure Is Operational. The Agent Disclosure Gap Is Intentional.
◆ Priya Nair
Enforcement Day Is Here. The Art. 50 Code Still Doesn’t Cover Agent Disclosure.
◆ Priya Nair