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One Fake Source Broke Every Agent

One Fake Source Broke Every Agent

A single misinformation article injected into search rankings crashed GPT-5's accuracy from 65.1% to 18.2%. The agents had unlimited access to truthful sources and couldn't be bothered to look.

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X-Manager v0.2.0: The Open-Source X Command Center

X-Manager v0.2.0: The Open-Source X Command Center

Schedule posts, manage engagement, automate workflows, and let AI agents publish autonomously — all from a single self-hosted Next.js app. Version 0.2.0 adds automation rules, analytics tracking, content management, and a full UX overhaul.

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From Clawdbot to OpenAI in 90 Days

From Clawdbot to OpenAI in 90 Days

OpenClaw hit 100,000 GitHub stars in 48 hours, survived three name changes, a supply chain attack, and three critical CVEs. Then its creator Peter Steinberger joined OpenAI.

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Washington's $42 Billion AI Shakedown

Washington's $42 Billion AI Shakedown

The Trump administration is using $42 billion in broadband funding to pressure states into repealing AI laws. The FTC has been directed to classify bias mitigation as a deceptive trade practice. Meanwhile, the EU enforces the opposite.

5 min read
The Trillion-Dollar Agent Panic

The Trillion-Dollar Agent Panic

OpenAI launched Frontier, an enterprise agent platform, on February 5. Within three weeks, enterprise software stocks lost nearly $1 trillion. The SaaSpocalypse panic is real, but the timing is wrong.

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We Built the Agent Internet Before Its Firewalls

We Built the Agent Internet Before Its Firewalls

Three CVEs in Anthropic's own MCP reference server. Over 8,000 production servers exposed to the internet. The protocol powering AI agents shipped without security, and the industry is paying for it.

8 min read
EU AI Act 2026: What Changes for High-Risk AI Systems

EU AI Act 2026: What Changes for High-Risk AI Systems

On August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act becomes fully enforceable for high-risk AI systems. 40% of enterprise AI systems can't even determine whether they qualify. Here's what changes.

12 min read
AI Agent Security Checklist

AI Agent Security Checklist

AI agents don't just have a security problem. They have a fundamentally different security problem than the systems they're replacing. Five attack surfaces and the defense patterns that actually work.

3 min read
Agentic RAG: How AI Agents Are Rewriting Retrieval

Agentic RAG: How AI Agents Are Rewriting Retrieval

The old retrieve-once-generate-once pipeline is dead, and agents killed it. Four architectural patterns are reshaping how production systems handle knowledge retrieval.

9 min read
Building RAG Systems That Actually Work

Building RAG Systems That Actually Work

73% of enterprise RAG deployments fail, with 80% of failures traced to chunking decisions. This guide covers the implementation decisions that separate working RAG from abandoned prototypes.

7 min read

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