Hermes — Thursday 16 July 2026

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🤖 ai VentureBeat AI

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Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on r…

Novelty

70%

Depth

75%

Practical

70%

Surprise

55%

Relevance

85%

https://venturebeat.com/ai/agentic-orchestration-enterprise-ai-organizations-have-a-deployment-problem-not-a-platform-problem-and-most-are-calling-chatbots-agents

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🤖 ai The Decoder

68%

OpenAI is now using AI to attack its own AI, and it's working better than humans ever did

OpenAI's internal GPT-Red model finds successful attacks in 84 percent of test scenarios through self-play training. Human red teamers manage just 13 percent. The results feed directly into hardening…

https://the-decoder.com/openai-is-now-using-ai-to-attack-its-own-ai-and-its-working-better-than-humans-ever-did/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

68%

Windows Bind Link Attacks Can Hide Malware From EDR Tools

Bitdefender researchers show how Windows bind links can create conflicting filesystem views to hide malware from endpoint security products. The post Windows Bind Link Attacks Can Hide Malware From E…

https://www.securityweek.com/windows-bind-link-attacks-can-hide-malware-from-edr-tools/

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🔐 security Microsoft Security Blog

66%

Unpacking the AsyncAPI npm supply chain compromise and import-time payload delivery

Threat actors compromised AsyncAPI packages and weaponized trusted CI/CD workflows to distribute malware through npm. This analysis breaks down the attack chain, payload delivery, and recommended def…

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/07/15/unpacking-asyncapi-npm-supply-chain-compromise-import-time-payload-delivery/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

65%

CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited SharePoint Vulnerabilities

Three vulnerabilities are actively exploited in attacks, including two that have been targeted as zero-days. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited SharePoint Vulnerabilities appeared fi…

https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-urges-immediate-patching-of-exploited-sharepoint-vulnerabilities/

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🤖 ai MIT Technology Review – AI

65%

Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the company released the latest ve…

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/15/1140514/meet-gpt-red-an-llm-super-hacker-openai-built-to-make-its-models-safer/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

64%

OpenAI's Codex now encrypts instructions between AI agents, leaving developers blind to internal delegation

Since early June, OpenAI's coding tool Codex encrypts the instructions a main agent passes to its subagents. Developers can no longer track how tasks get delegated internally. For the larger GPT-5.6 …

https://the-decoder.com/openais-codex-now-encrypts-instructions-between-ai-agents-leaving-developers-blind-to-internal-delegation/

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

64%

Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday Addresses 63 Critical Flaws and Two Actively Exploited Bugs

Microsoft has released the July 2026 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 versions 26H1, 26H2, and 24H2. This month, the company has fixed 621 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Microsoft Edge, Azur…

https://petri.com/microsoft-july-2026-patch-tuesday-63-critical-flaws/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

64%

GPT-5.6 Sol reportedly disproves a 30-year-old statistics conjecture in 90 minutes after humans couldn't crack it

A University of Pennsylvania statistics professor used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro to disprove a central open conjecture about the Benjamini-Hochberg method in roughly 90 minutes. The predecessor model,…

https://the-decoder.com/gpt-5-6-sol-reportedly-disproves-a-30-year-old-statistics-conjecture-in-90-minutes-after-humans-couldnt-crack-it/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

62%

Unpatched Cursor Vulnerability Exposes Users to Code Execution

An attacker can create a malicious repository containing a git.exe in the project root, and Cursor executes it automatically. The post Unpatched Cursor Vulnerability Exposes Users to Code Execution a…

https://www.securityweek.com/unpatched-cursor-vulnerability-exposes-users-to-code-execution/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

61%

Bonsai 27B is a full open reasoning model that fits on an iPhone

PrismML has compressed a 27-billion-parameter AI model to under 4 GB, small enough to run on an iPhone. In the company's own benchmarks, the smallest version keeps 90 percent of the original performa…

https://the-decoder.com/bonsai-27b-is-a-full-open-reasoning-model-that-fits-on-an-iphone/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

57%

White House Launches AI-Driven ‘Gold Eagle’ Vulnerability Coordination Initiative

The new program stems from an AI-focused Executive Order signed by President Trump on June 2. The post White House Launches AI-Driven ‘Gold Eagle’ Vulnerability Coordination Initiative appeared first…

https://www.securityweek.com/white-house-launches-ai-driven-gold-eagle-vulnerability-coordination-initiative/

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🔐 security Schneier on Security

53%

A Video Screen That Is Also a Camera

Amazing: Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, however, managed to create a new type of pixel that can simultaneously do both. This hypercharged pixel, called a Fourier pixel, can generate and …

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/a-video-screen-that-is-also-a-camera.html

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🤖 ai AI Alignment Forum

53%

Why I Left Google DeepMind

Preface for LessWrong: When I think back on my most cherished memories of this community, I return to those honoring defiance in pursuit of goodness: Defying prestigious dogma and searching for raw t…

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/iKm2FhpWkuuBojm82/why-i-left-google-deepmind

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

52%

Microsoft Makes SQL Server Migration to Azure VMs Generally Available in Azure Arc

Microsoft has announced the general availability of SQL Server migrations to Azure Virtual Machines through Azure Arc. This new feature simplifies the migration of on-premises SQL Server workloads to…

https://petri.com/microsoft-sql-server-migration-azure-vms-azure-arc/