July 17 2026 - AI Avatars, Secure Agent Logins & Red-TeamingAI Avatars, Secure Agent Logins & Red-Teaming

Google’s AI avatars for Workspace, 1Password’s Agentic Mode to let Claude log in securely, a survey exposing the agent evaluation gap and risky no-human deployments, and OpenAI’s GPT-Red automated red-teamer that uncovered “fake chain-of-thought” attacks—security implications.