AI agent capability has dramatically outpaced AI agent security. Over 1,184 malicious skills were found in the OpenClaw ecosystem, 135,000 instances were publicly exposed with zero authentication, and the CVE list grew to four critical vulnerabilities in weeks. Simultaneously, the most complex AI compliance environment in history emerged from a three-way collision between federal preemption, state laws, and EU enforcement. Defense AI crossed from pilots to permanent institutional deployment with Anduril's $20B Army contract and Palantir's Maven program of record, while three frontier labs shipped autonomous desktop agents in the same month.

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