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Technology & AIJul 2, 2026

Distributed Attacks in Persistent-State AI Control

As AI coding agents become more autonomous, they increasingly ship code iteratively, with the codebase persisting across sessions.

As AI coding agents become more autonomous, they increasingly ship code iteratively, with the codebase persisting across sessions. This persistence creates a new attack surface: a misaligned or prompt-injected agent can distribute attacks across pull requests (PRs) and time its…

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