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AI & ML 6 min

What Installing an Agent Toolkit Actually Grants

Giving an agent tools is one line of configuration, and that line does not say what any of them can do. We read all 77 t...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 20 Aug

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AI & ML 7 min

What a Tool Listing Cannot Tell You About AI Risk

We set the ten OWASP LLM risk categories against what our directory of 1,366 AI tools actually records. Four have a fiel...

Priya Nair

Pub. 16 Aug

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AI & ML 9 min

Where Does My Data Actually Go?

"Do you use my data?" is two questions wearing one coat. Training asks whether your text enters a future model and is us...

Jeffrey Tan

Pub. 31 Jul