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The security industry has spent years warning about AI-powered threats in abstract terms. Flashpoint’s 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report drops the abstraction: 47% of cybersecurity professionals now identify agentic AI as their top attack surface — and only 29% have deployed any countermeasures. That gap — 47% concerned, 29% prepared — is the most important number in the report. What the Report Found Flashpoint is a threat intelligence firm with significant data access across the criminal and state-sponsored threat ecosystem. Their annual Global Threat Intelligence Report is one of the more credible annual security surveys, drawing on both proprietary threat data and professional surveys. ...

Imagine you’re building an AI agent that needs to receive confirmation emails, track down responses, manage ongoing correspondence, and act on what it reads — all without human intervention. Right now, you’d hack together something using shared inboxes, forwarding rules, and brittle webhook integrations. AgentMail just raised $6 million to fix that properly. The Problem AgentMail Is Solving Email is the connective tissue of the internet. It’s how services confirm actions, how businesses communicate with customers, how systems notify each other of events. As AI agents take on more autonomous roles — booking appointments, processing applications, managing workflows — they need to participate in email-based workflows too. ...

China’s central government has moved decisively against OpenClaw AI, restricting its use at state-run banks and government agencies — even as thirteen of the country’s biggest technology companies are simultaneously racing to integrate or fork the platform into their own products. The split tells a story about how authoritarian states navigate powerful foreign AI: ban it at the top, absorb it at the bottom. What Beijing Actually Said According to reporting confirmed by Bloomberg, Reuters, and multiple regional outlets, Chinese authorities have instructed state-run enterprises and government agencies to remove OpenClaw AI apps from office computers. The stated rationale is cybersecurity and data-leak risk — the same concern Beijing has raised about prior foreign software platforms, from Windows to Slack. ...

Anthropic has built its brand on safety. Claude is consistently positioned as the thoughtful, cautious model — the one that pushes back on dangerous requests, that thinks about consequences, that errs on the side of care. So the DryRun Security research published today will raise some eyebrows: when used as an agentic coding agent building real applications, Claude produces the highest number of unresolved high-severity security flaws among the leading AI coding agents tested. ...

JetBrains launched Air into public preview today — and it’s not just another AI-enhanced code editor. It’s a fundamental rethink of what a development environment is when AI agents do the actual coding. The tagline from JetBrains captures the shift cleanly: traditional IDEs add tools to the code editor. Air builds tools around the agent. What Air Actually Is Air is JetBrains’ answer to the question: “What does an IDE look like if the primary user is an AI agent, not a human?” The answer involves several distinct design choices that set it apart from tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or even the JetBrains AI plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. ...

Perplexity just announced something that sounds deceptively simple: an AI agent that lives on your Mac mini, runs 24 hours a day, and has access to your local files and applications. They’re calling it Personal Computer, and they unveiled it at their Ask 2026 developer conference. Waitlists opened immediately. This is more consequential than another AI announcement. Perplexity is making a direct architectural bet against the cloud-first model that dominates agentic AI today. ...

The agentic IDE war is moving fast. JetBrains launched Air in public preview just yesterday, positioning itself as the agent-first development environment. Today, Zed — the performance-obsessed open-source editor — ships v0.227.1 with a feature that directly answers the multi-agent challenge: native parallel subagents. What’s New in v0.227.1 The headline feature is a new spawn_agent tool built into Zed’s AI assistant. When the AI determines a task would benefit from parallel execution, it can now spawn and run subagents in parallel — each handling a discrete portion of the work in its own context window — and then coordinate the results. ...

GitHub has moved Copilot CLI to general availability for all Copilot subscribers, bringing full agent mode to the terminal. The GA release, announced via the official GitHub changelog, adds the capability to plan, write, debug, and review code without leaving the shell — along with custom agent definitions and sub-agent support for JetBrains IDEs. For developers who live in the terminal, this is the Copilot integration they’ve been waiting for. The browser and IDE-based Copilot experiences have matured significantly, but the command line remained a second-class citizen until today. ...

Every year the threat intelligence industry produces a report that crystallizes what defenders already suspected but couldn’t quite prove. Flashpoint’s 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) is this year’s version — and its central claim is blunt: agentic AI has crossed from criminal curiosity to deployed offensive infrastructure. This isn’t speculation. It’s sourced from Flashpoint’s Primary Source Collection (PSC), which monitors criminal forums, dark web markets, and adversarial communication channels in near-real-time. The signal they’re seeing is a rapid acceleration of AI-related discussions that started as curiosity and has hardened into active capability development. ...

Anthropic is doing two things at once: building the most sophisticated AI policy apparatus in the industry, and fighting for its survival against a federal government that has designated it a supply-chain risk. On Wednesday, the company announced the Anthropic Institute — a new internal think tank combining three existing research teams — while simultaneously disclosing that the White House is preparing another executive order that could threaten hundreds of millions in 2026 revenue. ...