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CrowdStrike to Acquire Fiddler AI and Dreadnode for AI Agent Security
The deals bring agent observability and automated attack testing into CrowdStrike's Falcon platform, with closing expected by January 31, 2027.
An AI system that does more than answer: given a goal, it plans steps and carries them out, using tools such as a browser, a code editor or other software.
Because an agent acts on its own, the questions around it are less about what it says and more about what it is allowed to do.
The deals bring agent observability and automated attack testing into CrowdStrike's Falcon platform, with closing expected by January 31, 2027.
Some blocks are deliberate and some come from bot defences, leaving agents' access to sites unsettled.
If the approach holds up, existing telecom towers could help track hostile drones without new dedicated hardware.
The procedure ran longer than a typical surgery of this kind, and the mouse is reported to be recovering while its seizure response is assessed.
Only reproduced, high-confidence reports reach product teams, and Google's goal is for them to review AI-written fixes instead.
Daily users dropped below forecasts, and the company is pinning its recovery on AI creation tools and cross-platform play.
The episode raises questions about whether a 72-hour breach reporting rule was met and how contractors control AI tools on sensitive government networks.
Agent-opened pull requests now make up over 40% of activity, and GitHub has rebuilt parts of its backend to keep up.
Access is limited for now, with broader availability to follow once guardrails are refined.
Laptop buyers gain a choice over whether foreground apps or background agents get GPU resources, alongside a new open speech model that covers 40 languages.
Standalone Vera availability suggests customers want the CPU for work that does not need a Rubin GPU, though production use is still unproven.
The plan puts AMD CPUs and programmable networking hardware at the center of Oracle's cloud, with release timing still left to Oracle.
Third-party AI agents will also be able to connect to the apps through Model Context Protocol support on macOS 27 or later.
Teams on TypeScript 7 may see faster type checks, but the project is experimental and lacks watch mode and a language server.
Organisations running unpatched PHP servers face active exploitation, and defenders are being told to watch for a specific pattern of errors in their logs.
The price, if confirmed, would sit below Nvidia's existing AI Enterprise list rate, though the two may cover different terms.
The finding shows isolation barriers can be crossed by timing shared hardware, which OpenAI now treats as part of its safety cases for training and evaluation.
The format, already adopted by more than 70 agent platforms, will now be maintained jointly by engineers from several AI companies rather than one vendor.
The attack needed no software bug, and the agent's own permissions were enough to run commands, send data out and delete files.
Attackers reached individual bank accounts with little hands-on effort, and the case shows how safeguards can be bypassed by framing requests as tests.