AI Agents Get Identities, Anthropic’s Export-Control Fight, and a Better Way to Judge Coding Agents | UpNext AI – June 16, 2026
A concise catch-up on the day in AI: a new enterprise security startup bets companies will need to manage AI agents like employees, Anthropic’s clash with the U.S. government over model restrictions keeps widening, and a fresh research paper argues we should judge coding agents by how they work, not just whether they finish.
Covered stories:
- NewCore emerges with $66 million to manage AI agents as enterprise identities
- Katie Moussouris says Anthropic shared a White House report on the Fable jailbreak for her appraisal
- Research: agent trajectories as programs for fingerprinting…
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