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Issue #14: Mythos Found 10,000 Critical Vulns in 30 Days

Glasswing partners found 10,000+ critical vulns with Mythos Preview. Plus: CodeGraph cuts coding agent costs 35% with pre-indexed knowledge graphs. Tool of the Week.

Issue #13: TanStack npm Attack Hits OpenAI: Your Agent's Dependencies Are the Attack Surface

Supply chain attack compromises OpenAI code-signing certs. Plus: AWS CLI Agent Orchestrator coordinates multiple coding agents in parallel via MCP.

Issue #12: Agents That Spend Money

AgentCore Payments gives agents wallets. The AWS MCP Server goes GA with 15,000 APIs in 3 tools. The agentic economy has infrastructure now.

Issue #11: AWS + OpenAI: Model Exclusivity Is Dead

OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore Optimization for production agent quality loops, T-MAP red-teams frontier agents at 57.8% success rate, and more.

Issue #10: GPT-5.5 Reclaims the Agentic Crown

GPT-5.5 beats Opus 4.7 on agentic benchmarks while using fewer tokens. Plus: Stanford finds 44% of agent code gets thrown away, and ToolSimulator lets you test agents without live APIs.

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