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GitHub goes down worldwide as AI agents show security cracks - AIskimIQ Daily Brief - 2026-08-18
A massive GitHub outage disrupted developer workflows globally for hours, while a security researcher's "Red Agent" breached Snowflake's internal Jira through a Copilot-assisted code flaw, highlighting real risks in agentic AI adoption. Elsewhere, funding kept flowing into AI video and agent startups, with Higgsfield raising $400M at a $5.4B valuation and Xpander landing a $7.5M seed round. — Podcast voice is synthetic and episodes are produced with AI workflows.
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