EP39 | Hill Climbing, the Hugging Face Breach, and Agentic Security

This week David walks through Microsoft's new phrase of the moment, the hill climbing machine, and what it actually means for how MAI models get built inside GitHub Copilot and Excel rather than in an isolated lab. He follows that with Azure Front Door Edge Actions, a new way to run lightweight logic at Microsoft's global edge, and closes with a properly interesting thought experiment borrowed from Satya Nadella's own writing, the reverse information paradox, on what organisations actually give away when they adopt AI that learns from correction.

Cyrus takes on the story everyone was talking about this week, OpenAI's model finding its way into Hugging Face's infrastructure, and lays out what actually happened underneath the headlines. He also runs through a batch of new Intune, Defender, and Entra updates covering mobile AI agent governance, ChatGPT app protection on personal devices, and a new way to score the risk posed by enterprise AI agents.

Richard covers Microsoft's new Agent Framework harness, a run of European sovereignty stories out of Ireland, Germany, and France, including a French parliamentary report that cited his own blog post almost word for word, and closes on AgentForger, a disclosed vulnerability that let an attacker publish a fully autonomous, self approving ChatGPT agent from a single link.

Links

• Microsoft Agent Framework harness announcement
• Ireland stalls Microsoft tender, The Register
• Schleswig Holstein Microsoft to open source migration update, Le Petit Journal
• Beyond Sovereignty, France reframes digital dependencies as an economic security issue, APCO Worldwide
• AgentForger Part 1, Zenity Labs
• The Off Switch You Don't Control, The Microsoft Cloud Blog
• Is the future of public cloud sovereign, The Microsoft Cloud Blog

Socials

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Music

Null Invocation, Monochrome Pulse: https://is.gd/b1kNU9