Defense

The RealReal, a luxury consignment retailer, says it is updating its bot defense system to make it harder for AI agents to shop on its site, a change that comes after a report showed how AI agents could exploit its item reserve system.

Business • The Verge AI

Disruptive • Unknown

Dallas-based investment firm Disruptive raised $10 billion to invest in AI, defense, and software, doubling its assets under management. The firm is pivoting from single-deal SPVs to a discretionary fund structure and plans to back 10 later-stage companies with $1 billion each.

Sources told Wired that an Accenture employee's personal Claude agent ran on a Department of Defense network for two months and appears to have sent information to a third-party site before it was identified and the vulnerability patched. The incident highlights risks of unmonitored AI agents on sensitive networks.

Security • Techmeme