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Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 hit a hard submission cap for the first time in 19 years. Rejected researchers are now publishing working zero-days directly, breaking the contest's secrecy norms.

Palisade Research shows frontier AI models autonomously exploit vulnerabilities and deploy working AI inference servers on remote machines, with success rates jumping from 5% to 81% in twelve months.

Six research teams disclosed exploits against Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, and Vertex AI. Every attack went after credentials the agents carried - not the models themselves.

Three new papers show that more agent components backfire, reasoning models hide unsafe thinking, and vision-language models waste most of their attention.

OpenAI's second-generation real-time audio model with GPT-5-class reasoning, 128K context, five reasoning levels, and parallel tool calling - now generally available in the Realtime API.

OpenAI's Realtime API exits beta with GPT-Realtime-2, Translate, and Whisper - three specialized voice models splitting reasoning, translation, and transcription into distinct endpoints.

Google DeepMind's May 2026 AlphaEvolve impact report shows the system running in production across infrastructure, quantum computing, genomics, and commercial partnerships spanning logistics to fintech.

Three new papers deliver a runtime safety firewall for agent tools, challenge how we measure AI alignment, and introduce elastic context management for long-horizon search agents.

Three new papers reveal how agent memory silently breaks, how a tiered architecture recovers it, and how models can self-improve without human labels.

We compared Mem0, Zep, Letta, LangMem, and Cognee on architecture, benchmarks, pricing, and use cases to find the right memory layer for your agent stack.

OpenAI Workspace Agents replace Custom GPTs with always-on, Codex-powered agents that execute real workflows across Slack, Salesforce, and Google Workspace.

Anthropic releases 10 ready-to-run AI agent templates for finance, now live at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citadel, AIG, and nine more major institutions.