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venturebeat 27h ago 15°

D&B's database of 642 million businesses was built for humans, not AI agents. So they rebuilt it.

Dun & Bradstreet has spent over 180 years building a comprehensive commercial database. Its Commercial Graph, covering 642 million businesses and their relationships, corporate hierarchies and risk profiles, was designed for people. Credit analysts, risk managers and sales professionals who could wait for query results and work through ambiguous entity matches.
venturebeat 45h ago 13°

A 0.12% parameter add-on gives AI agents the working memory RAG can't

AI agents forget. Every time a coding assistant loses track of a debugging thread, or a data analysis agent re-ingests the same context it already processed, the team pays in latency, token costs, and brittle workflows.
venturebeat 48h ago 12°

MFA verifies who logged in. It has no idea what they do next.

Every MFA check passed. Every login was legitimate. The compliance dashboard was green across every identity control. And the attacker was already inside, moving laterally through Active Directory with a valid session token, escalating privileges on a trajectory toward the domain controller.This is the scenario playing out inside enterprises that invested heavily in authentication and assumed the job was done. The credential was real.
venturebeat 48h ago 11°

Americans can’t spot a deepfake, and that’s a business crisis, not just a consumer problem

Presented by Veriff Americans can’t reliably distinguish real from AI-generated content, and that’s not just a media literacy problem; it’s a direct threat to how businesses verify identity online.New research finds that while many people are aware of deepfakes, their ability to distinguish them from reality is barely better than a coin flip.
venturebeat 19h ago

Your AI agents need a terminal, not just a vector database

When agentic workflows fail, developers often assume the problem lies in the underlying model’s reasoning abilities.
venturebeat 41h ago

Alibaba's proprietary Qwen3.7-Max can run for 35 hours autonomously and supports external harnesses like Anthropic's Claude Code

The AI industry has fully entered the "agent era," a paradigm where AI models do far more than generate text — they now actively plan, execute, and course-correct complex tasks over days rather than seconds.
venturebeat 46h ago

Enterprise AI agents keep failing because they forget what they learned

RAG architectures are good at one thing: surfacing semantically relevant documents. That's also where they stop.A framework called a decision context graph addresses that gap by giving agents structured memory, time-aware reasoning, and explicit decision logic. Rippletide, a startup in the Neo4j ecosystem, has built one.
venturebeat 18h ago

Valid certificates, stolen accounts: how attackers broke npm's last trust signal

On May 19, 633 malicious npm package versions passed Sigstore provenance verification. They were cleared by the system because the attacker had generated valid signing certificates from a compromised maintainer account.Sigstore worked exactly as designed: it verified the package was built in a CI environment, confirmed a valid certificate was issued, and recorded everything in the transparency log.