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AI & Software

Cisco MyAgent: Permission Design at Company-Wide Scale

What changes at company-wide scale is the range over which the same controls have to hold. A permission inventory you can fill in against your own setup.

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AI & Software

AI Agent Coordination Across Shared Infrastructure: Reading Three Reports

Even with independent execution environments, activity spreads past a single run whenever credentials and information carry over through shared infrastructure. Three reports, and what to check in your own setup.

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Fintech

ASIC's Focus on Banks' Use of AI: What Records to Keep for Customer-Facing AI

ASIC's corporate plan devotes essentially one item to banks and AI. We check what it does and does not say against the primary sources, and turn that into evidence design for customer-facing AI.

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AI & Software

Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard: Enforcing Operating Limits Outside the AI Model

A research preview read for which layer enforces an AI's operating limits—and for when QuEra took the AI out of the production loop.

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AI & Software

AISI's Incident Report: When Technical Access Exceeds Authorized Scope

The agent never broke out of the sandbox. Re-read as the gap between authorized scope and what was technically reachable, with a look at where each control is actually enforced.

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AI & Software

The Proposed AI AGENT Act: Designing Access for User-Authorized Agents

The text of the U.S. Senate's AI AGENT Act bill (S.5051), re-read as the decision flow facing a company that has to receive outside AI agents acting on its customers' behalf.

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AI & Software

A2A Joins AAIF Alongside MCP—But the Protocol Seam Remains

A2A and MCP now sit under the same foundation, but technical governance stays separate—and carrying identity, narrowing downstream permissions, and propagating cancellation across the two remains the connector's design work.

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AI & Software

Building Business Systems with Generative AI: Where to Draw the Line Between Prototype and Production

How far can you move quickly with generative AI, and when should a production-readiness review begin? Incidents disclosed in 2026 help map the questions to resolve before go-live.

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AI & Software

Meta's Muse Code: Worktree Isolation Prevents Editing Collisions, but Integration Risks Remain

A design that prevents concurrent edits and consistency after integration are two different problems. Using Meta's first-party material on Muse Code as a starting point, we set out along three axes what is separated when coding agents run in parallel, and what is not.

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