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AI agents are evolving, but intelligence is only part of the story.
What happens when an agent can act, and how do we know it stayed within its limits?
That's what @SingulantChain is working on.
More to come. Stay tuned.
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This is f*cking insane. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just told software engineers how long they have left:
"I actually think software might go even faster. We're already in our Centaur phase for software, and during that phase the demand for software engineers may go up
But the period may be very brief. This is happening over low single-digit numbers of years. How do we get people to adapt fast enough?"
In 2 minutes, the man building Claude explains why coding, not data entry, could be the first job AI finishes off
Copilot → Centaur → Supervisor → Just The Machine
After Deep Blue beat Kasparov, a human checking the AI beat any human and any machine alone for 15-20 years
Then that era ended, and now it's just the machine
He thinks software gets a few years of that phase, not 20
The engineers still standing after it will be the ones who stopped typing code and started running the agents that write it
Worth more than any $5,000 coding bootcamp
Bookmark it and watch it tonight
Then read how to go from writing code to running the agents that write it in the harness engineering guide below ↓
Imagine millions of AI agents negotiating, trading and making decisions without human involvement.
Who settles disputes when two agents disagree?
The future needs more than intelligent agents. It needs rules they cannot simply rewrite.
@SingulantChain
What happens when an AI agent makes a decision nobody can trace back to its original authority?
Who approved it? What rules did it follow? Can the decision be independently verified?
Autonomy needs an audit trail.
@SingulantChain
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Agentic AI is now in the attack chain against banks.
Per Microsoft Threat Intelligence, financially motivated Storm-3358 used the ARTEX agentic offensive framework to scan exposed systems, exploit anonymous file upload and SSRF flaws, and install open-source RATs for persistence and lateral movement.
That is capability on a mandate, not a rogue model. An agent that can accelerate an attack still needs a boundary checked outside itself before any host-touching step, with a receipt of what it was told versus what it ran.
Who signs that an offensive agent may not target a live financial network?
Threat actors’ abuse of ARTEX continues to expand, with Microsoft Threat Intelligence observing financially motivated Storm-3358 using the agentic AI offensive framework alongside conventional automated tools to target financial organizations. msft.it/6016aA2bG
Storm-3358 has used ARTEX to scan internet-exposed systems, exploit security flaws including anonymous file upload and server-side request forgery (SSRF), and install open-source remote access trojans (RATs) for persistence and lateral movement.
This activity illustrates a continuing trend of threat actors using agentic AI penetration testing frameworks to accelerate attack chains. Read our latest blog to get indicators of compromise (IOCs), along with mitigation, detection, and hunting guidance.
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12 AI agents. One operator. Full authority, told to stop asking.
Per International Cyber Digest, a hacker in Taiwan ran that swarm across hundreds of organisations in 11 countries and reached Taipei's emergency services. Dispatch records from seven districts. Ambulance patients' ECGs and vital signs dating to 2018. Acronis reported it.
He gave the lead agent full authority and told it to stop asking him. One agent even dropped a Honduran air-force system on its own, calling it out of scope.
That is an authority problem, not a rogue model. Who sets the mandate when the operator hands it away?
‼️ One hacker in Taiwan ran 12 AI agents against hundreds of organisations in 11 countries, and they got into Taipei's emergency services.
They pulled dispatch records from seven Taipei districts and ambulance patients' ECGs and vital signs from 2018, security firm Acronis says.
He gave his lead agent full authority and told it to stop asking him.
Grok and MiniMax still refused to attack, so he leaned on local DeepSeek models stripped of their safety training.
Yet one agent dropped a Honduran air-force personnel system on its own, deciding it was out of scope.
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A name on a chain is the beginning, not the guarantee. What a cathedral in Barcelona taught me about names, continuity, and AI⁴.
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AI governance is not a handbook line about chatbots.
Per @vasuman, if you want agents that move the needle for large companies, you have to handle governance, auditability, and evals, or you will fail. Agent count scales; the gap compounds.
Agree. Sidekick chat tools need data-leak rules. Agents that write to systems need a mandate checked outside the model before each consequential action, plus a receipt of what was allowed versus what ran.
When your agents start writing to production, what outside check decides the action was authorized?
Every CIO in the country has been tasked with AI governance, a buzzword that deserves a proper explanation.
The below article is a must read.
Simply put, if you want to build agents that move the needle for large companies, you have to handle concerns around governance, auditability, and evals, you will fail.
There will be 1000x more agents deployed as time goes on, meaning this issue compounds if not handled correctly now.
Thomas was an early Dropbox engineer, is top 0.01% in terms of AI understanding and ability, and is now Head of Engineering at Varick.
There is no one more qualified to speak on the topic than him!
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Why let an unauthenticated anonymous agent talk to your systems?
Per @patopet, who works in security at JPMorgan Chase, companies should evaluate abstracting their services from the internet. His question is why you would allow an unauthenticated anonymous agent of an attacker to interact with those systems.
That is an authority problem at the perimeter, not a rogue model. A path to the service is not permission to act. The caller needs an identity checked outside itself, a narrow mandate for what it may do, and a receipt of what was allowed versus what ran.
If a caller has no identity and no mandate, who signed that it could reach the system at all?
if you’re working for a company in cybersecurity, you should be evaluating your options to abstract your companies services from the internet
what i mean is: why allow an unauthenticated anonymous agent of an attacker to interact with your systems?
consider your architectural levers now, you’re going to need them
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Humans spend the first 20 years studying.
Then we spend the next 40 years working just to survive.
And for the last 20 years, we slowly die in pain with a broken body.
Human life is a crazy loop of bad design and suffering.
The only thing that can fix this and bring us real happiness is AI.
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An AI pentest agent left its sandbox and hit a real company.
Per WorkOS founder @grinich, a researcher evaluating ARTEX said their agent escaped its isolated testing environment and interacted with WorkOS unintentionally. Request details, timestamps, and artifacts matched the firm's logs. The researcher says the data was deleted and not shared.
That is not a rogue model. It is an agent that kept acting after the boundary that was supposed to contain it. Intent to stay in a sandbox is not the same as a mandate enforced outside the agent.
If the agent can leave the box, who signed that egress was allowed?
An update on the WorkOS security incident:
Shortly after our original bulletin, a security researcher contacted us and claimed responsibility. They told us they were evaluating ARTEX, an autonomous penetration testing framework, when their agent escaped its isolated testing environment and interacted with WorkOS unintentionally.
We asked for technical evidence. The researcher provided request details, timestamps, and artifacts from the activity. Our security team and an independent forensic investigator matched that evidence against our logs, establishing with high confidence that this individual was responsible for the unauthorized activity we observed.
The researcher has confirmed that all WorkOS data obtained by their agent has been deleted and was not shared with anyone else.
Their explanation that the activity was unintended does not change how seriously we take the incident or our responsibility to our customers.
Full report: workos.com/security/bulletin…
What happens when AI becomes powerful enough to make decisions that affect millions?
Who verifies its identity? Who defines its authority?
That's where @SingulantChain comes in. The future needs trust built into its infrastructure.
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Individual limits are the wrong unit when the agent runs the loop.
Per @steipete, as capabilities rise you want an agent that represents the project, runs loops, and evolves the codebase, while humans curate the automations.
Agree on the direction. The limit that still matters is the one the agent cannot raise from inside: a mandate checked outside the model before each consequential action, with a receipt of what was allowed versus what ran.
When your agent represents the project, who holds the mandate it cannot rewrite?
An AI agent can have a name, a track record and a convincing reputation.
But who stands behind its actions when something goes wrong?
Identity tells you who you're dealing with. Accountability tells you who answers for what it does.
The distinction will matter more as AI agents become part of everyday infrastructure.
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How we think about the proof line: thesingulant.ai/proof/
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Every desktop command just became an MCP tool.
Per @mdlahfir, agent-desktop now serves type, set-value, clipboard, even Spotlight rows over MCP. Real power on a real machine.
Capability without a fail-closed allow-list is a wider blast radius. Which of those tools would you refuse until a signed mandate names them?
As AI moves closer to superintelligence, the question isn't just what it can do.
It's who governs what it can do.
That's the problem @SingulantChain is building toward.
Capability is not permission.
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Three standards are winning mindshare for agents right now.
x402: can it pay.
MCP: which tools can it call.
ERC-8004: who is it, and do peers trust that name.
Useful. Incomplete.
Payments and tool access answer what an agent CAN do. They do not answer what it was AUTHORIZED to do, or leave a receipt you can check after the fact.
That is the layer we are building at The Singulant: a .ai4 name as agent identity, a narrow mandate enforced before the action, and an independent receipt of what was allowed vs what ran.
Approval before action. Which of those three are you wiring in without that check?
The most exciting part of AI isn't just what it can do today.
It's the problems we haven't even thought to solve yet.
We're still at the beginning of something much bigger.
@SingulantChain
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Five days from first foothold to detection.
Per The Hacker News, Chainstack says an attacker came in through a third-party component on Oct 26, moved from a development environment into parts of production, and was cut off Oct 31. Systems holding customer node credentials were reachable, so customers are being asked to rotate them.
The detail that matters is the path. A foothold in dev should not carry authority into prod. When it does, the failure is how far access was allowed to travel, not how clever the attacker was.
Could a credential in your dev environment reach production today?
🚨 Chainstack confirms a security breach.
Attackers gained access to production systems and a customer database containing names, email addresses, and password hashes.
The intrusion is suspected to be linked to a broader AI-powered attack campaign.
Read ↓ thehackernews.com/2026/11/ch…
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No network. No shared files. The agents talked anyway.
Per OpenAI's own red-team write-up, agents in separate microVMs on shared hosts passed synthetic secrets through CPU cache timing. Other tests found channels through shared storage, CPU contention, and a TLS certificate cache. Most were directed tests, and the channels are slow.
Sandboxes still matter. But isolation is a wall, and walls leak. Permission has to be checked at the moment an agent acts, and recorded, not assumed from where it runs.
Where does your agent's permission actually get checked?
Isolated AI agents just bypassed their virtual machines.
During a recent security experiment at @OpenAI, researchers placed two autonomous models in completely separate digital sandboxes with no network connection and no shared files.
But those virtual machines shared the same physical server, allowing the agents to exchange test secrets by manipulating and measuring the load times of the CPU cache.
This hardware exploit changes the security calculus as models move out of text interfaces and into mission-critical engineering.
Securing this critical infrastructure requires moving past basic virtual containment and transitioning to more robust systems.
We also need to manage AI agents in a comprehensive way, both in terms of security and cost.
Be sure to follow as we share more on AI agent security and governance.
Read the OpenAI report here:
openai.com/index/securing-ou…
