Entrust CIO Rishi Kaushal told Bank Info Security on July 3, 2026 that AI agents are the new first-class identity. The fix is per-agent credentials, short-lived tokens, audit trails, and kill switches.

Bloomberg reports Crusoe is in talks for a $3B round that would triple its valuation to $30B, less than a year after its $1.375B Series E. Meta, Oracle, and 4.9 GW of capacity are the anchors.

Sysdig says it has found the first ransomware attack run end-to-end by an AI agent, which exploited a missing-auth Langflow RCE, swept for cloud credentials, and encrypted 1,342 Nacos settings.

Workato Labs launched on July 1, 2026 as an open-source developer toolkit: a Go-based wk CLI, Recipe Skills, Recipe Linter, and a Visualizer for AI coding agents building enterprise recipes.

Anthropic ships Claude Science, an AI workbench that bundles a coordinating agent with 60-plus curated skills and a reviewer agent that audits citations and figures. Beta for Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise.

NVIDIA ships a new AI cloud business model: revenue-sharing and credit-support for AI clouds to stand up DSX AI factories on NVIDIA hardware without bearing the capex. Sharon AI and Firmus are the first partners.

AdExchanger columnist Margarita Savytska argues the buy-side data layer was never built to be acted on by AI agents. Stale consent and suppression rules now drive sends and scores at scale.

CIO columnist Lucas Bonner argues that shadow AI agents, autonomous processes that operate at the API layer without logging in, are already inside enterprise systems. The governance gap is structural.

Netzilo is extending its AIDR runtime behavior graph and Governance-as-Code enforcement layer to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Copilot Studio, CrewAI, LangGraph, and Google Vertex AI.