security

In six weeks, Palo Alto bought Portkey, Cisco bought Astrix, Asana bought StackAI, and $340M flowed into agent-identity startups. The fifth wheel nobody shipped in open source is being bought, not built. A map of the five control-plane layers and the buyers racing to own each one.

OpenClaw has 138 CVEs, a 1GB/min memory leak, and a supply-chain attack where 80% of audited skills were malicious. Hermes's flagship feature silently deleted user data on launch day. The SaaS ecosystem built on their pain has 25+ providers.