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Security researchers are raising a question that sounds almost absurd until you think about it: should your AI agent have its own passport? At LeadDev's LDX three conference, FusionAuth's Dan Moore made the case that autonomous agents operating on your behalf need distinct OAuth two identities, not borrowed credentials, to keep enterprise systems accountable and secure.
On a more unsettling note, supermarket freezers across Europe are being targeted by cyberattacks, disrupting cold chains and raising food safety concerns. Experts warn that as operational technology grows more connected, and as AI lowers the barrier for sophisticated attacks, critical infrastructure like refrigeration systems becomes an increasingly attractive and vulnerable target.
And for the companies spending billions building frontier AI models, Gartner has some sobering math. Analysts found that open-weight models handle roughly nine in ten steps in agentic workflows at about a twentieth of the cost of closed alternatives. That leaves the expensive frontier players competing for just ten percent of the market, which is a very narrow ledge to justify very large infrastructure bets.
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