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The Source Is Becoming Optional
AI search increasingly selects, compresses and explains the evidence before you decide whether to inspect the source.
 • Steve Zenone
The Paper Is Becoming Executable
Paper2Agent turns research packages into callable tools. Once a method can run on demand, a citation alone can't tell you what produced the result.
 • Steve Zenone
Memory Is a Write Path
Long-running agents need rules for what they remember, where that memory came from, what replaces it and how it can be removed.
 • Steve Zenone
The Human Actuator Layer
RentAHuman makes the handoff visible. The harder problem begins when AI agents can recruit people through email, job boards and social platforms.
 • Steve Zenone
The Lab Bench Is Becoming an API. Physics Still Gets a Vote.
Anthropic's new Model Hardware Standard gives AI agents a common interface to lab equipment. The hard part starts when the world doesn't behave like…
 • Steve Zenone

August 2026

The Benchmark Became Part of the Attack Surface
Frontier cyber evals are no longer passive measurement. If the subject can exploit the harness, the harness has to be secured like production.
 • Steve Zenone
The Control Channel Never Went Away
Apple-CAT modems, BBS g-files and phone phreaking taught an old lesson: when data can impersonate control, somebody eventually tests the assumption.
 • Steve Zenone
The Agent Is Authenticated. The Action Still Isn't Authorized.
Agent identity answers who made the call. It doesn’t tell you who authorized this action, under which delegation, or whether that authority still made…
 • Steve Zenone
The Runtime Is the Bug
AI security keeps staring at the prompt. Eleven vulnerabilities disclosed across six agent frameworks show the deeper risk is often the code underneath…
 • Steve Zenone

July 2026

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