A Spacelift survey of 406 IT and platform leaders finds most teams deploy AI-generated infrastructure code with minimal or no review, and nearly every organization has already had an AI-caused infrastructure incident.

Forrester's Identiverse 2026 recap argues that agent identity is the new IAM front. Cser and Cairns report 75 to 85 percent agent adoption and call agent authorization the new paradigm shift.

Oasis Security Research disclosed CVE-2026-41613, a VS Code MCP install flow that hid five fields from the preview dialog. The fix is in 1.119.1, and the install link is still the most common attack path.

Assort Health has raised a $120M Series C led by Menlo Ventures at a $1.2B valuation. The voice AI agent platform for healthcare patient access has now raised $222M since launching in November 2023.

OpenAI and Broadcom on Wednesday unveiled Jalapeño, the first custom AI inference chip in a long-term partnership. The ASIC ships to data centers by end of 2026 and targets large language model inference at scale.

The 13-person startup says its custom-trained models hit 10x to 100x token efficiency on enterprise knowledge. Notion, Harvey, and Microsoft are already piloting it.

Coval raised $28M led by Norwest with Base10, Twilio Ventures, and Y Combinator, bringing total funding to $31M. The platform simulates and monitors AI voice agents so enterprises can ship them without silent failures.

Seltz, rebuilding web search for AI agents, raised $12.5M in seed funding from Speedinvest and B Capital. The startup owns its own crawler, index, and ranking and pitches itself as a retrieval layer for LLM agents.

Parts of the NSA have lost access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 after a Commerce Department export-control order on June 12, 2026, with the dispute now blocking access for Five Eyes allies and for non-U.S. staff at Anthropic.