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98% of Agents Carry the Lethal Trifecta. Last Week Showed Why. (opens in new tab)

Adversa's Q2 2026 AI Risk Quadrant Report, published June 3, scored 100 production agent systems against three dimensions: attack surface, blast radius, and defenses. Two numbers worth holding. 98% of production agents carry the lethal trifecta — Simon Willison's framing for the combination of access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to take outbound actions, on the same execution path. Only 11% qualify as adequately defended. The remaining 87% don't lack the tri...

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