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AI agent credentials live in the same box as untrusted code. Two new architectures show where the blast radius actually stops.

AI agent credentials live in the same box as untrusted code. Two new architectures show where the blast radius actually stops.

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Four separate RSAC 2026 keynotes arrived at the same conclusion without coordinating. Microsoft’s Vasu Jakkal told attendees that zero trust must extend to AI. Cisco’s Jeetu Patel called for a shift from access control to action control, saying in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat that agents behave “more like teenagers, supremely intelligent, but with no fear of consequence.” CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz identified AI governance as the biggest gap in enterprise technology. Splunk’s John Morgan called for an agentic trust and governance model. Four companies. Four stages. One problem. Matt Caulfield, VP of Product for Identity and Duo at Cisco, put it bluntly in an exclusive VentureBeat interview at RSAC. “While the concept of zero trust is good, we need to take it a step further,” Caulfield said. “It’s not just about authenticating once and then letting the agent run wild. It’s about continuously verifying and scrutinizing every single action the agent’s trying to take, because at any moment, that agent can go rogue.” Seventy-nine percent of organizations already use AI agents, according to PwC’s 2025 …

Block introduces Managerbot, a proactive Square AI agent and the clearest proof point yet for Jack Dorsey’s AI bet

Block introduces Managerbot, a proactive Square AI agent and the clearest proof point yet for Jack Dorsey’s AI bet

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Block today unveiled Managerbot, a new AI agent embedded in the Square platform that proactively monitors a seller’s business, identifies emerging problems, and proposes actionable solutions — without the seller ever having to ask a question. The product marks the most tangible manifestation of CEO Jack Dorsey’s controversial bet that artificial intelligence can fundamentally reshape how his company operates, builds products, and serves the millions of small businesses that depend on Square to run day-to-day commerce. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Willem Avé, Block’s head of product at Square, described Managerbot as a decisive break from the company’s earlier Square AI assistant, which functioned as a reactive chatbot that answered seller questions about sales, employees, and business performance. “The big shift from Square AI to Managerbot is really from reactive to proactive,” Avé said. “What that means is the primary interface is not a question box. You assign tasks to Managerbot, and that could be based on data, an insight, or a signal from your business.” The product is beginning to roll out now, …

Target Warns That If Its AI Shopping Agent Makes an Expensive Mistake, You’ll Have to Pay for It

Target Warns That If Its AI Shopping Agent Makes an Expensive Mistake, You’ll Have to Pay for It

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Big box chains have proudly embraced artificial intelligence — but don’t expect them to help when their AI assistants charge your card for hallucinated garbage. That trend, in which retail giants force their AI initiatives on consumers while distancing themselves from its failures, is growing. While that attitude certainly isn’t unique to big box stores, it’s increasingly becoming their default setting, revealing the ridiculous double standard baked into the AI boom. Target is the latest to jump on the bandwagon. According to Business Insider, the Minnesota-based retail corporation recently updated its terms and conditions to make it clear that customers — not the company — would be responsible for the failures and hallucinations of its upcoming AI shopping assistant. That virtual buddy, which runs on Google’s Gemini, is supposed to help online shoppers finish Target runs on their users’ behalf. Under the new terms, if a customer uses the Gemini agent to do their shopping for them, any …

Fernandez’s agent criticises Chelsea’s ‘unfair’ ban

Fernandez’s agent criticises Chelsea’s ‘unfair’ ban

Published by Sam Flores

April 4 : Enzo Fernandez’s agent Javier Pastore has criticised Chelsea’s decision to ban the midfielder for two games after recent public comments about his future, saying the Argentina international does not understand the punishment. Fernandez will miss Saturday’s FA Cup quarter-final against Port Vale and next Sunday’s Premier League match at Manchester City. Last week the World Cup winner said he would “look at his options after the World Cup” and expressed a desire to live in Spain. “The punishment is completely unfair,” Pastore told the Athletic newspaper. “There’s no real reason or justification for why he has been banned. Enzo didn’t understand the situation.” The 25-year-old, who is under contract until 2032 and has captained Chelsea in the absence of injured Reece James, has been linked with Real Madrid, although he denied talks with the Spanish club. “When the coach told him, he accepted it because he’s a highly professional guy who’s always fully committed, wherever he is, and respects decisions,” Pastore said. “But we don’t understand the punishment because he doesn’t mention …

CC is the AI agent I’ve been waiting for — it turns my chaotic inbox into a daily briefing

CC is the AI agent I’ve been waiting for — it turns my chaotic inbox into a daily briefing

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AI chatbots are old news — everyone is talking about AI agents now. Agentic systems use AI to automate and complete multistep tasks without specific direction, so you can set up workflows once, and they’ll complete tasks independently. General agents like the ChatGPT Agent or the Gemini Agent live in a chatbot, but there are also specialized agents that integrate with software like email, calendar, file, and task management services. I’ve been using an agentic Google Labs experiment, CC, for months in Google Workspace, and it’s never been easier to keep track of my responsibilities, discover events, and even catch deals before they expire. CC is described as an AI productivity agent that provides daily personalized briefings using information from Gmail, Calendar and Drive. You have to give CC quite a bit of access to your Google Workspace account, but when you do, the productivity agent compiles all your events and action items in one place. Since it’s a Google Labs experiment, CC exists outside of Gemini and Google Workspace, and you need to opt …

Google Gemma 4, Anthropic’s Secret Al Agent, Qwen 3.6 & More

Google Gemma 4, Anthropic’s Secret Al Agent, Qwen 3.6 & More

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Artificial intelligence continues to evolve rapidly, with recent developments showcasing significant progress across multimodal models, persistent agents and advanced coding workflows. Universe of AI explores key innovations, including Google’s Gemma 4, a multimodal AI model optimized for diverse inputs like audio, video and images. Notably, Gemma 4 combines efficiency with accessibility, running effectively on consumer hardware while offering features like extended context windows and native function calling. This balance of performance and usability positions it as a noteworthy step forward in making AI more practical for everyday applications. Dive into this explainer to gain insight into how Anthropic’s persistent AI agent, Conway, introduces always-on functionality for real-time responsiveness and how Alibaba’s Qwen 3.6 Plus uses agentic coding to streamline complex development workflows. You’ll also discover Z.AI’s GLM 5V Turbo, which integrates vision-to-code capabilities to bridge the gap between design and implementation. These advancements highlight the diverse ways AI is reshaping automation, engineering and productivity, offering a detailed look at the technologies driving the next wave of innovation. Google’s Gemma 4: A Multimodal Marvel TL;DR Key …

Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex

Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex

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Cursor announced Thursday the launch of Cursor 3, a new product interface that allows users to spin up AI coding agents to complete tasks on their behalf. The product, which was developed under the code name Glass, is Cursor’s response to agentic coding tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, which have taken off with millions of developers in recent months. “In the last few months, our profession has completely changed,” said Jonas Nelle, one of Cursor’s heads of engineering, in an interview with WIRED. “A lot of the product that got Cursor here is not as important going forward anymore.” Cursor increasingly finds itself in competition with leading AI labs for developers and enterprise customers. The company pioneered one of the first and most popular ways for developers to code with AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google—making Cursor one of these companies’ biggest AI customers. But in the last 18 months, OpenAI and Anthropic have launched agentic coding products of their own, and started offering them through highly subsidized subscriptions that have …

CrowdStrike, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks all shipped agentic SOC tools at RSAC 2026 — the agent behavioral baseline gap survived all three

CrowdStrike, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks all shipped agentic SOC tools at RSAC 2026 — the agent behavioral baseline gap survived all three

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CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz highlighted in his RSA Conference 2026 keynote that the fastest recorded adversary breakout time has dropped to 27 seconds. The average is now 29 minutes, down from 48 minutes in 2024. That is how much time defenders have before a threat spreads. Now CrowdStrike sensors detect more than 1,800 distinct AI applications running on enterprise endpoints, representing nearly 160 million unique application instances. Every one generates detection events, identity events, and data access logs flowing into SIEM systems architected for human-speed workflows. Cisco found that 85% of surveyed enterprise customers have AI agent pilots underway. Only 5% moved agents into production, according to Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel in his RSAC blog post. That 80-point gap exists because security teams cannot answer the basic questions agents force. Which agents are running, what are they authorized to do, and who is accountable when one goes wrong. “The number one threat is security complexity. But we’re running towards that direction in AI as well,” Etay Maor, VP of Threat Intelligence …

RSAC 2026 shipped five agent identity frameworks and left three critical gaps open

RSAC 2026 shipped five agent identity frameworks and left three critical gaps open

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“You can deceive, manipulate, and lie. That’s an inherent property of language. It’s a feature, not a flaw,” CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview at RSA Conference 2026. If deception is baked into language itself, every vendor trying to secure AI agents by analyzing their intent is chasing a problem that cannot be conclusively solved. Zaitsev is betting on context instead. CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor walks the process tree on an endpoint and tracks what agents did, not what agents appeared to intend. “Observing actual kinetic actions is a structured, solvable problem,” Zaitsev told VentureBeat. “Intent is not.” That argument landed 24 hours after CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz disclosed two production incidents at Fortune 50 companies. In the first, a CEO’s AI agent rewrote the company’s own security policy — not because it was compromised, but because it wanted to fix a problem, lacked the permissions to do so, and removed the restriction itself. Every identity check passed; the company caught the modification by accident. The second incident involved a 100-agent Slack …

Russia declares protagonist of Oscar-winning documentary a ‘foreign agent’ | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia declares protagonist of Oscar-winning documentary a ‘foreign agent’ | Russia-Ukraine war News

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The teacher had spent two years documenting pro-war propaganda at a school before smuggling footage out of Russia. Published On 27 Mar 202627 Mar 2026 Russia has declared the teacher and main protagonist of the Oscar-winning documentary “Mr Nobody Against Putin” a foreign agent. Pavel Talankin, who won Best Documentary at the Academy Awards earlier this month with US director David Borenstein, spent two years documenting pro-war propaganda at a school in the Chelyabinsk region in west-central Russia while working as the school’s videographer. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Talankin fled Russia in 2024, smuggling out the footage for use in the film. A Russian court banned the documentary from several streaming platforms on Thursday, saying it promoted “negative attitudes” about the Russian government and the war in Ukraine. Since Russia launched its full-scale military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Russian authorities have sought to totally suppress opposition to the war while aiming to rally support for the war among Russian citizens. Talankin’s name appeared in a statement on the justice …