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PJM plans to study SoftBank’s Ohio AI project under state agreement approach

The project, dubbed “Flagship,” includes 765-kV transmission lines to be built by AEP Ohio, roughly 10 GW in data center load and about 10.2 GW in gas-fired generation.

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How Do You Threat-Model an Application That Uses Autonomous AI Agents?

You spent years building a threat model you trust. You know your trust boundaries, you've mapped your data flows, and your team can recite STRIDE in their sleep.

  • Autonomous AI agents act on untrusted input, unlike traditional software.
  • Prompt injection is the new SQL injection risk for AI agents.
  • Threat modeling must include agent, tools, and memory as assets with trust boundaries.

I finally cut AI context bloat by 80% and the fix was embarrassingly simple

A few months ago I watched an agent do something deeply cursed. It had already fetched the data. It had already parsed the data. It had already stored the useful fields.

  • AI agents previously included entire raw tool responses in subsequent model calls
  • Solution was to store full results in structured state outside the model
  • This change improved agent quality and efficiency significantly

Artificial intelligence created an attack for Chrome in six days

Researchers at security firm XBOW used an AI model to build a full-chain Google Chrome exploit combining three unknown bugs in six days.

  • Researchers at XBOW created Chrome exploit in six days using AI
  • AI performed source code analysis, testing, and initial exploit creation
  • Exploit affects Windows users, no user interaction needed

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