On July 13 the Pentagon suspended CMMC Phase II, the third-party audit that was set to start in November. NIST 800-171 self-assessment stays, and so does the legal duty to protect federal data. For contractors running AI dev tools, the burden of proof just moved onto them.
A 2026 study ran standard token-pruning compressors on LLM agents across 17 configurations. Every one collapsed to near-zero reward, from 1.3x to 13.3x compression. The tokens a compressor drops first are the ones agents need most.
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