§FEATURED PAPER · SYNTHESIS · 2026-05-03
The modern AI stack ships open. Cross-survey synthesis.
Across 14 platform classes mass-scanned through 28 cloud /16 ranges (~1.83M IPs) we mapped ~4,300 confirmed unique deployments of vector DBs, inference servers, MLOps tracking, agent platforms, and chat UIs. Every layer of the modern AI stack that does not ship with authentication enabled by default is deployed without authentication on the public internet at population scale.
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