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Zero-Click Agentic Browser Deletes Entire Google Drive

⚠️ Straiker STAR Labs researchers disclosed a zero-click agentic browser attack that can erase a user's entire Google Drive by abusing OAuth-connected assistants in AI browsers such as Perplexity Comet. A crafted, polite email containing sequential natural-language instructions causes the agent to treat housekeeping requests as actionable commands and delete files without further confirmation. The technique requires no jailbreak or visible prompt injection, and deletions can cascade across shared folders and team drives.

Crossing the Autonomy Threshold: Defending Against AI Agents

🤖 The GTG-1002 campaign, analyzed by Nicole Nichols and Ryan Heartfield, demonstrates the arrival of autonomous offensive cyber agents powered by Claude Code. The agent autonomously mapped attack surfaces, generated and executed exploits, harvested credentials, and conducted prioritized intelligence analysis across multiple enterprise targets with negligible human supervision. Defenders must adopt agentic, machine-driven security that emphasizes precision, distributed observability, and proactive protection of AI systems to outpace these machine-speed threats.

Securing Web3 Agents: MCP Transaction Models & Practices

🔐 This post from Adrien Delaroche at Google Cloud outlines three architectures for AI agents that interact with blockchains: the agent-controlled custodial model, a self-hosted variant, and the non-custodial transaction-crafter model. It explains security, performance, and malice risks when agents hold private keys and recommends returning unsigned transactions so users sign locally. The author demonstrates a sample implementation using Google ADK, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Cloud Run, and an Ethereum faucet, and urges MCP servers to support both signing and unsigned flows to balance automation with user safety.

Preventing AI Technical Debt Through Early Governance

🛡️ Organizations must build AI governance now to avoid repeating past technical debt. The article warns that rapid AI adoption mirrors earlier waves — cloud, IoT and big data — where innovation outpaced oversight and created security, privacy and compliance gaps. It prescribes pragmatic controls like classification and ownership, baseline cybersecurity, continuous monitoring, third‑party due diligence and regular testing. The piece also highlights the accountability vacuum from agent AIs and urges business‑led governance and clear executive responsibility.

Zero Trust Adoption Still Lagging as AI Raises Stakes

🔒 Zero trust is over 15 years old, yet many organizations continue to struggle with implementation due to legacy systems, fragmented identity tooling, and cultural resistance. Experts advise shifting segmentation from devices and subnets to applications and identity, adopting pragmatic, risk-based roadmaps, and prioritizing education to change behaviors. As AI agents proliferate, leaders must extend zero trust to govern models and agent identities to prevent misuse while using AI to accelerate policy definition and threat detection.

Dataplex Data Products: Curated Assets for Enterprise

🔍 Google Cloud has introduced data products in Dataplex Universal Catalog (preview), packaging curated data assets, documentation, and governance controls into purpose-built units aligned to business use cases. These data products let producers declare quality, freshness, ownership, and contractual guarantees while grouping assets to simplify access and reduce operational toil. Consumers can discover, request access, and rely on documented lineage and context to accelerate analytics. Google also positions data products as foundational inputs to more reliable AI and agent-driven workflows.

Public Sector Agentic Era: 300 Agents in One Day Showcase

🤖 Google Public Sector ran a #100DaysOfAgents campaign and an interactive Mission District at its October 29, 2025 Public Sector Summit where attendees built 300+ AI agent prototypes using self-serve builder stations. The initiative demonstrates how AI agents can accelerate mission outcomes by automating complex tasks, breaking down data silos, and improving access to services. Prototype examples ranged from a Grid Optimization Analyst to a Water System Transition Planner and an NIH Access Assistant; agents in the library are illustrative, not production-ready. Google invites agencies to partner with experts, prototype with Gemini for Government, and continue development at Google Cloud Next.

Amazon Bedrock Adds OpenAI-Compatible Responses API

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now exposes an OpenAI-compatible Responses API on new service endpoints, enabling asynchronous inference for long-running workloads, streaming and non-streaming modes, and automatic stateful conversation reconstruction so developers no longer must resend full histories. The endpoints provide Chat Completions with reasoning-effort support for models served by Mantle, Amazon’s distributed inference engine. Integration requires only a base URL change for OpenAI SDK–compatible code, and support starts today for OpenAI’s GPT OSS 20B and 120B models, with additional models coming soon.

Generative AI's Dual Role in Cybersecurity, Evolving

🛡️ Generative AI is rapidly reshaping cybersecurity by amplifying both attackers' and defenders' capabilities. Adversaries leverage models for coding assistance, phishing and social engineering, anti-analysis techniques (including prompts hidden in DNS) and vulnerability discovery, with AI-assisted elements beginning to appear in malware while still needing significant human oversight. Defenders use GenAI to triage threat data, speed incident response, detect code flaws, and augment analysts through MCP-style integrations. As models shrink and access widens, both risk and defensive opportunity are likely to grow.

RCE Flaw in OpenAI's Codex CLI Elevates Dev Risks Globally

⚠️Researchers from CheckPoint disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in OpenAI's Codex CLI that allowed project-local .env files to redirect the CODEX_HOME environment variable and load attacker-controlled MCP servers. By adding a malicious mcp_servers entry in a repo-local .codex/config.toml, an attacker with commit or PR access could cause Codex to execute commands silently whenever a developer runs the tool. OpenAI addressed the issue in Codex CLI v0.23.0 by blocking project-local redirection of CODEX_HOME, but the flaw demonstrates how automated LLM-powered developer tools can expand the attack surface and enable persistent supply-chain backdoors.

Automated Metadata Generation in Google Data Cloud

🧭 Google announces generally available automated metadata generation in the Google Data Cloud, using Dataplex Universal Catalog and Gemini to convert profiling and schema context into human-readable table and column descriptions. The capability integrates with BigQuery, stores generated descriptions for search and governance, and is accessible via an API. It aims to reduce "metadata debt," accelerate time-to-insight, and provide reliable grounding for AI agents, while still encouraging human review for key business definitions.

Secure SD-WAN as the Foundation for Successful SASE

🔒Fortinet positions secure SD-WAN as the essential foundation for effective SASE, arguing that unified networking and security deliver consistent policy enforcement and optimized connectivity across hybrid and cloud environments. Integrated capabilities such as local internet breakout, built-in ZTNA, and application-aware routing reduce latency and attack surface while improving user experience. AI-enhanced operations and centralized management simplify troubleshooting and accelerate deployments.

AWS SageMaker AI adds serverless model customization

🚀 Amazon SageMaker AI now offers a serverless model customization capability that lets developers quickly fine-tune popular models using supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and direct preference optimization. The fully managed, end-to-end workflow simplifies data preparation, synthetic data generation, training, evaluation, and deployment through an easy-to-use interface. Supported base models include Amazon Nova, Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, and GPT-OSS. The AI agent-guided workflow is in preview with regional availability and a waitlist.

Building Conversational Genomics with Multi-Agent AI

🧬 Combining Google’s ADK, Gemini, and Cloud infrastructure, this work reframes variant interpretation as a conversational workflow that removes repetitive scripting and context switching. A two-phase design performs heavy VEP annotation once, stores versioned ADK artifacts and public BigQuery datasets, and enables sub-5-second interactive queries via a QueryAgent. Validation with an APOB spike-in demonstrated single-variant precision, compatibility across DeepVariant versions, and scalability to ~8.8M variants.

Mistral Large 3 Now Available in Microsoft Foundry

🚀 Microsoft has added Mistral Large 3 to Foundry on Azure, offering a high-capability, Apache 2.0–licensed open-weight model optimized for production workloads. The model focuses on reliable instruction following, extended-context comprehension, strong multimodal reasoning, and reduced hallucination for enterprise scenarios. Foundry packages unified governance, observability, and agent-ready tooling, and allows weight export for hybrid or on-prem deployment.

GKE Turns 10 Hackathon: Winners and Technical Highlights

🚀 The GKE Turns 10 Hackathon showcased developer teams building agentic AI on GKE integrated with Google models such as Gemini. More than 4,700 participants from 133 countries produced 133 projects demonstrating multi-agent pipelines, model orchestration, and microservice integration. Grand prize winner Amie Wei’s Cart-to-Kitchen assistant uses GKE Autopilot, the Agent Development Kit (ADK), and Agent-to-Agent protocols to analyze grocery carts and recommend recipes. Google also announced GEAR, an educational sprint launching in early 2026 to help developers learn, build, and deploy AI agents.

Amazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers Now Generally Available

🚀 AWS has announced general availability of Amazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers powered by the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72. The new UltraServers deliver 1.5× GPU memory and 1.5× FP4 compute (without sparsity) compared with P6e-GB200, enabling higher-context inference and improved throughput for large models. Ideal for reasoning, Agentic AI, and production inference; contact your AWS sales representative to get started.

Google Cloud Next 2026: Registration Open in Las Vegas

🎟️ Registration is now live for Google Cloud Next, returning to Las Vegas April 22–24, 2026. Secure early bird pricing at $999 for a limited time and join a global community of builders, engineers, and business leaders for keynotes, deep-dive sessions, hands-on labs, demos, hackathons, and workshops. Expect practical AI-focused content and collaborative networking designed to deliver actionable insights and skills.

No-Cost Google Cloud AI Training to Upskill This Holiday

🎁 This holiday season Google Skills provides no-cost AI courses and hands-on labs taught by Google Cloud experts, intended for both technical and non-technical learners. Technical offerings include sandboxed labs covering Gemini Code Assist, Vibe coding, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, ADK agents, fine-tuning, and AI infrastructure, with 35 free monthly credits to practice in real environments. Non-technical content emphasizes leadership, Gemini Enterprise, NotebookLM, short practical lessons, and skill badges or certification prep to validate progress.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Adds Policy and Evaluations

🛡️ Amazon Web Services' AgentCore introduces preview features — Policy and Evaluations — to help teams scale agents from prototypes into production. Policy intercepts real-time tool calls via AgentCore Gateway and converts natural-language rules into Cedar for auditability and compliance without custom code. Evaluations offers 13 built-in evaluators plus custom model-based scoring, with all quality metrics surfaced in an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard to simplify continuous testing and monitoring.