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Primates, Children, and Adults Share Ancient Intuition for 2D Geometry
A landmark study reveals that olive baboons, rhesus macaques, young children, and adults rely on the same evolutionarily ancient cognitive architecture to understand abstract two-dimensional geometric relationships — a foundation for human mathematical reasoning.
EU Forces Google to Open Its Search Data Vault to AI Rivals
Under the Digital Markets Act, the European Commission's landmark July 2026 rulings require Google to share the query, click, ranking, and view data it uses to train its own search and AI products with qualifying third-party AI chatbots — subject to privacy safeguards — while fining Google €890 million for self-preferencing its own services.
Current AI Builds Open Public AI Infrastructure for All Languages and Cultures
A nonprofit racing to create free, open-world AI infrastructure that respects linguistic diversity and community data ownership.
ServiceNow AI Platform RCE: How CVE-2026-6875 Went From Disclosure to Active Exploitation in Weeks
A critical pre-authentication sandbox-escape vulnerability in the ServiceNow AI Platform is being actively exploited in the wild just one week after patches for self-hosted instances were released, putting Fortune 500 enterprise workflows at risk.
Hugging Face Suffers Autonomous AI Agent Breach That Compromised Internal Datasets
Hugging Face disclosed a security incident where an autonomous AI agent system was used to breach their production infrastructure, steal internal datasets and credentials, and move laterally across clusters. The attack exploited two code-execution vulnerabilities in the data-processing pipeline.
Clop Exploited Oracle Flaw to Steal Estée Lauder’s HR Data — And It’s Been Happening Since August
Estée Lauder’s year-long data breach was enabled by a zero-day in Oracle E-Business Suite, exploited by the Clop ransomware gang since August 2025 — a failure that mirrors systemic neglect across enterprise IT.
Why Stolen Credentials Keep Breaking Into Critical Infrastructure — and What Device-Bound Identity Can Do About It
From Colonial Pipeline's dormant VPN account to Volt Typhoon's years-long persistence inside U.S. critical infrastructure, identity-based attacks follow a familiar but devastating playbook. This article examines why credentials alone can't anchor zero trust, how state-backed threat actors exploit the gaps, and why binding identities to specific verified devices is emerging as a practical first step for utilities, energy, and transportation operators.
Block's Open-Source Buzz Platform Puts AI Agents and Humans in the Same Team Chat Room
Jack Dorsey's payments company Block has launched Buzz, a self-hostable, open-source workspace where AI agents share channels, code repos, and workflows alongside human teammates — positioning itself as a model-agnostic alternative to Slack and GitHub.
The wp2shell Crisis: AI Cybersecurity Threats Targeting WordPress Core at Scale
Security researchers detail how threat actors are chaining two critical WordPress Core vulnerabilities—CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137—to deploy persistent webshells, with AI tools accelerating the exploit development process.
Why Shipping Agents to Production Breaks Everything You Know About AI Deployment
Explains why deploying AI agents to production is not merely an escalated version of chatbot deployment, but demands unique engineering disciplines including orchestration, memory management, runtime isolation, and specialized observability.
Agentic Data Platforms Are the Missing Layer Between AI Agents and Enterprise Reality
As companies deploy AI agents across scattered data landscapes, agentic data platforms emerge as the connective tissue that gives agents trusted access to structured and unstructured sources, shared business context, and governed guardrails—making the difference between agents that hallucinate and agents that act.
Neuronal TLR4 Ignites MMP-9 Cascade That Destabilizes Brain Network After Trauma
Research reveals how concussion triggers an immune receptor in neurons that activates a destructive enzyme, eroding structural brain scaffolding and causing long-term cognitive decline.