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Pick two: the rule that keeps AI agents from being conned
Prompt injection has no fix, so the field settled on containment. Meta's Agents Rule of Two — and the lethal trifecta before it — turn an unsolved problem into a design constraint anyone can check.
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Who governs the machines? The state of AI law, mid-2026
Europe's landmark act slowed down, America's states sped up and got sued, and China quietly shipped the most binding rules of all. A field guide to what actually applies right now.
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Week 29: cheaper agents, a forgotten token, and a court that said no to Apple
Two new model families built for agents, a supply-chain breach that started with a token nobody revoked, and the DMA ruling that keeps Apple's app stores open to scrutiny.
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Why this site talks to agents
mlzen publishes for people and for the AI agents reading alongside them: an MCP server, markdown on request, and an llms.txt file. Here's what that means and why the web is quietly growing a second front door.
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GenAI for the rest of us
What generative AI actually is, why it makes things up with total confidence, what an 'agent' really means, and what changed in the last year.
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