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Updating the taxonomy of failure modes in agentic AI systems: What a year of red teaming taught us

A surge in real-world attacks against agentic AI systems is reshaping how we think about risk. Based on 12 months of red teaming, this update introduces seven new failure modes, from supply chain compromise to goal hijacking, and the practical mitigations teams need now. The post Updating the taxonomy of failure modes in agentic AI systems: What a year of red teaming taught us  appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

API access to billing usage reports now generally available

The REST API for enterprise administrators to request and download billing usage reports in .csv format is now generally available. With this new capability, the same billing reports that are… The post API access to billing usage reports now generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Advanced Error Handling and Retry Patterns in Enterprise REST Integrations

Enterprise REST integrations rarely fail in a clean, binary way. The dominant failure modes are usually partial and ambiguous: a socket closes after a downstream system commits, a gateway returns a timeout while the target service is still processing, a throttling layer asks for a pause, or a dependency becomes slow enough that waiting callers begin to exhaust threads, connections, and ports.  In that environment, simplistic catch-and-retry logic is not resilience. It is uncontrolled traffic gen

Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: Customizable Multimodal Safety for Global Enterprise AI

Larger context windows and configurable reasoning levels for GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot now supports larger context windows and configurable reasoning levels to help you tackle deeper, more complex work. Leverage one-million-token context windows A one-million-token context window means users can… The post Larger context windows and configurable reasoning levels for GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked

On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.

Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center

Kevin O'Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4. The Shark Tank star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday, saying that he will remove 19,430 acres from the project, located in and around the Locomotive Springs Waterfowl Management Area. The change comes just days after Adams called on O'Leary to slash the size of his Project Stratos