Databricks is buying Panther, an AI-driven security operations platform, to boost its threat-detection lineup. Panther’s machine-learning models flag anomalies and automate response, and Databricks plans to fold those capabilities into its data lakehouse. On AWS’s side, Continuum moves security into continuous, automated workflows. It scans code for vulnerabilities, ranks them using an environment-and-business-context graph, spins up sandbox tests to confirm exploitability, then pushes quick, reversible patches before routing final fixes through your existing review process. Vercel Connect, meanwhile, hands out short-lived tokens scoped to specific resources, so front-end apps and backend agents can tap external data without over-privileged credentials. Cisco and NVIDIA just deepened their AI partnership around the “Secure AI Factory” concept—a full-stack approach that bundles AI networking, validated hardware, observability tools and policy controls. The pitch: don’t treat GPU provisioning as a one-off; build repeatable, secure pipelines for production AI workloads. On the endpoints side, Iru’s new Config as Code solution lets Mac admins keep custom profiles, scripts and apps in Git repos. Changes go through pull requests and GitHub Actions, so configurations become versioned, reviewable and recoverable—an incremental step toward full MDM-as-code. Snowflake embraced the open-source Agentic Resource Discovery spec, which standardizes how AI agents and tools describe, curate, search and invoke enterprise resources. The goal is a common protocol so AI clients can automatically find approved services—databases, APIs, workflows—without bespoke integrations. Finally, the piece on supply-chain attacks drills into real risks: compromised vendors or software libraries can open backdoors into customer environments. Small businesses face higher exposure thanks to loose vendor oversight and shared credentials. The advice: map every third-party relationship, audit access rights regularly, and enforce stronger identity controls across the board.