RSAC 2026 crowned an agentic security startup as its most innovative, but the harder problems, securing MCP protocols, tracking agent behavior post-authentication, and scaling governance beyond "human in the loop," remain unsolved.
Swivel and Olyzon launched live agent-to-agent CTV transactions via AdCP, bypassing DSP/SSP infrastructure entirely. The same week, Basis shipped agentic planning tools and Horizon Media revealed an orchestration layer above the entire stack. Three architectural bets on programmatic's future landed in 72 hours.
NASA's Artemis II launched four astronauts toward the Moon for the first time in 53 years. The AI and communications systems keeping them alive represent a generational leap from Apollo, and a JPL experiment three months ago hints at where it's all heading.
OpenAI named Smartly as its first creative adtech partner to build interactive, conversational ad formats inside ChatGPT. With the ad pilot already at $100M ARR and 600+ advertisers, the move sharpens the divide between ad-supported and ad-free AI assistants.
TeamPCP's Trivy supply chain attack claimed its biggest victim. Cisco lost 300+ GitHub repos including AI Defense source code, unreleased products, and customer code belonging to banks and U.S. government agencies. The hackers set an April 3 deadline. Cisco still hasn't said a word publicly.
Microsoft's MAI Superintelligence team shipped three in-house models for transcription, voice, and image generation. They're not building an LLM yet, but the trajectory is unmistakable.
Publicis audited The Trade Desk and rivals rushed to pitch alternatives. Four agency buyers surveyed said they changed nothing. The real fight is over margin and infrastructure control, not transparency.
Loughborough University physicists built a memristor chip that processes AI tasks using material physics instead of software, achieving up to 2,000x energy savings on time-series data, with implications for edge devices, robotics, and sustainable AI.
Every vendor says their model is the answer. Your organization has no structured process for deciding which ones to actually use. Here is how to build a model selection framework that matches models to tasks, tracks costs, and keeps you from getting locked in.
Every major AI chatbot costs $20 a month. Here's a practical framework for choosing between Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini based on what you actually need, not what the benchmarks say.
A 60MB source map file left in the npm package exposed 512,000 lines of TypeScript, 40 tools, and an internal 'Undercover Mode' designed to stop leaks. It shipped anyway.
Anthropic accidentally exposed a draft blog post revealing Claude Mythos, a new model tier above Opus with claimed leaps in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity. The leak arrived during Claude's strongest consumer quarter ever.
An international team used IBM quantum processors to synthesize and characterize C₁₃Cl₂, a molecule with half-Möbius topology never before observed or predicted, then proved only quantum simulation could explain its behavior.
Anthropic is privately warning government officials that Claude Mythos makes large-scale cyberattacks much more likely, while planning to release it to enterprise security teams. The regulatory framework to handle that contradiction does not exist.
IAB Tech Lab's Agentic Advertising Management Protocols define how AI agents communicate in programmatic workflows. Here is what the spec actually covers, what is production-ready, and whether your team should integrate now.
The IAB NewFronts completed their transformation from digital video showcase to tech-and-data bazaar. Performance TV, creator matchmaking, and pause ads dominated. Here is who actually benefits.
Starcloud just raised $170M at a $1.1B valuation for orbital AI data centers. The real story is not satellites. It is the terrestrial energy crisis forcing AI infrastructure to look beyond Earth.
University of Pittsburgh physicists replicated four landmark topological quantum computing experiments and found simpler explanations for all of them, raising hard questions about the foundation of a technology Microsoft and others are betting billions on.
Meta is reportedly doubling AI smart glasses production capacity while cutting VR studios and freezing Horizon Worlds development. The dollars are moving from headsets to wearables, and developers need to read the room.
AAMP gave agentic ad buying a spec. Early tests show real results. But nobody has answered the governance questions: accountability, audit trails, role changes, and spend authority. Here is the organizational playbook your team needs before an agent touches a real budget.