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427 stories · page 43 of 48Researchers showed how Cursor's AI agent could execute code on your machine with one hidden prompt
CVE-2026-50548 and CVE-2026-50549, both CVSS 9.8: a hidden instruction in one resource was enough to make Cursor's agent write outside its sandbox and execute commands. Patched in Cursor 3.0. No data on real attacks so far.
Read →Agents stopped being a feature. They became labor.
I'm looking at what came out this week, and underneath it all I see one thing: AI agents are no longer a demo next to the product. They are the work itself - measured in hours, in percent of what got done, in whole teams.
Read →Tidal cuts the money for fully AI music; the rule kicks in July 15
From July 15, Tidal tags every 100% AI-generated song with 'AI' - and stops paying it. No royalties, no direct sales to fans. Harder than the labeling alone at Spotify and Apple Music.
Read →California embraces Claude while Washington keeps it at arm's length
Newsom signed a deal - every state agency, every city and county gets Claude at half price, plus free training. The contrast with the federal stance is telling.
Read →AI behind a closed door: air-gapped for government
Palantir and NVIDIA are shipping AI for US agencies that runs isolated from the internet, with weights under the agency's own control. If the data can't go out - the model comes to it.
Read →Actively exploited holes - and in home equipment
CISA added new vulnerabilities with proven active exploitation - among them in Ubiquiti UniFi and SimpleHelp. This isn't theory. Someone is already using them. The patch doesn't wait.
Read →An AI brain in lunar orbit
Firefly Aerospace will fly NVIDIA Jetson into orbit around the Moon - the first one there. It processes the data onboard, instead of downlinking 120 GB to Earth. Edge AI, lifted into space.
Read →The week AI stopped being a model and became a system
I don't look at the last few days as a series of separate announcements. I see one line - the big players are no longer selling a model. They're selling a whole stack: chip, agents, API and access rules. And it's exactly the rules that are becoming part of the product.
Read →HP rolls AI out across the whole business through one platform
HP is rolling out OpenAI 'Frontier' after a series of pilots. What's notable is that this is an AI-managed layer over the whole business, not a chatbot in the corner.
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