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New evidence shows multi-hour agent task horizons and widening control gaps. It still does not establish recursive self-improvement or economy-wide job replacement.
Read the feature →OpenAI's July 9 GPT-5.6 release followed a roughly 12-day federal review. The formal model-scope rule is due August 1.
Read the briefing →Enterprise teams are putting one control point between autonomous agents, tools, credentials, and model calls.
Sysdig coined "agentic threat actor" this week for JADEPUFFER, and the definition is already outrunning any page that pins it down.
Sysdig's JADEPUFFER writeup documents an autonomous agent that broke in, harvested credentials, moved laterally, and extorted a database start to finish.
Reuters says China's commerce ministry has discussed limits on overseas access to advanced models from Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai.
Reuters reported a DeepSeek chip project aimed at inference, the lower-margin work of serving models after training.
Illinois just wrote the first state law forcing frontier AI developers to prove their models won't kill 50 people, and it put a number on everything.
Monday, March 30, 2026 — Evening Edition 🔄 Microsoft Ships Copilot Cowork: Multi-Agent Orchestration Inside M365 Agents & Autonomy Microsoft launched Copilot Cowork in its Frontier tier — a supervisor
Anthropic warns government that Mythos elevates cyberattack risk. Amazon + OpenAI launch stateful runtime on Bedrock. RSAC 2026 marks $3.6B in agentic security funding.
Anthropic eyes October IPO. SoftBank's $40B bridge loan. The triple public market wave approaching $1.4T combined valuation.
A leaked model, an identity crisis at RSAC, and the enterprise security playbook rewritten in real time.
Every major frontier lab now holds a DoD contract. One hardware chief already walked. The governance framework that was supposed to handle this doesn’t exist.