Black Hat USA 2026 AI Summit
Black Hat USA 2026 includes an AI Summit and security briefings in Las Vegas focused on how artificial intelligence is changing digital defense.
AI Engineering // Security // Governance
AI systems in practice
Engineering notes and curated references on AI systems, prompt injection, agent behavior, responsible AI, governance, and compliance.
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Upcoming events
Future talks, workshops, conferences, and community events related to AI systems, security, compliance, and red teaming.
DEF CON 34 / AI Village 2026
DEF CON 34 takes place in Las Vegas and is expected to include AI security activity through villages, workshops, contests, and community-led research tracks as schedules firm up.
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 brings agent and MCP builders to Amsterdam to cover agent architectures, protocols, infrastructure, security, observability, and interoperability.
OpenAI DevDay 2026
OpenAI DevDay 2026 is scheduled for September 29 in San Francisco and is OpenAI’s primary developer event for platform updates.
Featured Reading
Current material worth reading
Curated research, system cards, and technical write-ups that are useful for understanding how AI systems are being evaluated, attacked, governed, and deployed in practice.
Top Agentic AI security resources — July 2026
July 2026's agentic AI security roundup: agentic zero trust whitepapers, AutoJack & other new exploits, and the newest agent defenses. The post Top Agentic AI security resources — July 2026 first appeared on Adversa AI .
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HitchHacker's Guide to Building Secure Agents - Kenneth Yeung & Kasimir Schulz
Conference talk on secure AI agents, focusing on how tool use, identity, and execution boundaries change when assistants can act across systems.
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AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 Day 2 Livestream
Live from San Francisco, AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026 continues with Day 2 of session programming from the main stage. Watch live for keynote sessions, main-stage programming, and more from World’s Fair 2026 as AI Engineer brings another full day of AI engineering content to viewers online. Event: AI Engineer World’s
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AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 Day 3 Livestream
Live from San Francisco, AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026 wraps with the final day of main-stage programming. Watch live for keynote sessions, featured talks, and closing-day highlights from World’s Fair 2026 as AI Engineer streams the final day of the event online. Event: AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026 Date: Thursday, Jul
Latest Notes
New additions to the research library
Recent notes and references across prompt injection, agent security, evaluations, responsible AI, and adjacent AI work.
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Don't Ship Skills Without Evals — Philipp Schmid, Google DeepMind
There are thousands of agent skills. Almost none of them are tested. They get vibe-checked with two manual runs, maybe a thumbs-up from a colleague, then shipped. You wouldn't merge code without tests — so why are we shipping skills without evals? This talk covers the full lifecycle of building reliable agent skills: w
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WTF Is the Context Layer? The Missing Infrastructure for Production Agents — Prukalpa Sankar
In the last two years, models have gotten exponentially smarter. Two years ago they couldn't pass the bar. Today, top 1% of test scorers. And yet most agents still can't answer a simple business question correctly. You ship a demo that works. You deploy it. The business abandons it in a month. The missing variable is c
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Forward Deployed Engineering at Cursor — Pauline Brunet
# How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Cursor **Location:** Forward Deployed Engineering / Room 2020 **When:** Day 2 - June 30, 2026 · 11:10am-11:30am ## Speakers ### Pauline Brunet VP, Forward Deployed Engineering · Cursor [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauline-brunet/) VP of Forward Deployed Engineerin
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"The engineer of the future is the person who is able to choose what is worth doing." — Addy Osmani
For his closing keynote, Addy Osmani explores the evolving role of software engineers in the age of AI agents. He argues that as coding tasks become increasingly automated, the true value of an engineer shifts from mere code production to accountability, judgment, and system ownership. https://addyosmani.com/ https://x
Topic Coverage
Prompt engineering, AI compliance, agent security, and more
These topic hubs connect current engineering and research with the parts of AI security, governance, evaluation, and system behavior that are most useful in practice.
AI Red Teaming
Methods, case studies, and tooling for red teaming AI systems end to end.
Open topicPrompt Engineering
Prompt design patterns, instruction hierarchy, and defensive prompt construction.
Open topicPrompt Injection
Prompt injection attacks, mitigations, detection, and design patterns for safer AI applications.
Open topicAgent Security
Controls and attack paths for browsing, tool use, memory, identity, and action-taking agents.
Open topicModel Evaluation
Safety evaluations, system cards, preparedness, and security measurement for frontier models.
Open topicAI Compliance
Responsible AI, governance, standards, and regulatory reference material for teams mapping AI systems to policy and operational controls.
Open topicAdversarial ML
Adversarial machine learning attacks, taxonomies, and mitigations across the ML lifecycle.
Open topicAI Engineering
Application architecture, developer workflow, tooling, and production patterns for building AI systems.
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Profile
Profile and contact
Focused on AI engineering, responsible AI, compliance, model behavior, and operational AI systems. Current work includes founding AI operational software for compliance and financial tracking.