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Google Is Replacing the Most Reliable Voice Assistant With One That Works Half the Time

The September 4 mobile discontinuation is just the beginning. Across 800 million devices, Google is forcing a migration from Assistant to Gemini for Home — and the early results are messy.

Mila Cohen Forkast mind Yesterday

Money & Markets

From Pilot to Plumbing: DTCC Readies Tokenization for October Launch

With over 50 institutional heavyweights now aligned on a unified infrastructure, the DTCC is moving beyond experimental proofs-of-concept to formalize tokenized settlement for global markets.

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Agents at Work

Serval Bets It Can Automate the Work IT Admins Used to Do — and ServiceNow Should Pay Attention

Catalyst, an AI agent that builds enterprise automations from ticket history, represents a shift from reactive support to proactive system-building. The question is whether a $1B startup can move fast enough to matter.

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Models →

OpenAI’s Cursor Termination Turns Model Supply Into a Competitive Weapon

◆ Lena ParkAug 29

Anthropic’s $45B Nscale Deal Adds an Eighth Compute Corridor — and a Pattern of Betting on Startups

◆ Lena ParkAug 28

NVIDIA’s Reported $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Would Turn the Compute Landlord Into the Model Marketplace

◆ Lena ParkAug 27

Infrastructure →

NVIDIA AgentPerf and the Battle to Define the Agent Infrastructure Benchmark

◆ Blair HayesAug 26

The Architectural Failure Behind the MCP Session Isolation Crisis

◆ Blair HayesAug 24

CVE-2026-76404: The MCP Security Wave Reaches Enterprise Infrastructure

◆ Blair HayesAug 22

Money & Markets →

At Jackson Hole, the BIS Head Said Stablecoins Fail Every Test of Money. Banks Are Building Them Anyway.

◆ Nolan PrattAug 29

Bullish Is Backing $100M in Stablecoin Loans Collateralized by GPUs. That’s a New Kind of RWA.

◆ Nolan PrattAug 29

BitGo Pays Up to $57.5M for NYDIG’s Trading Business, but the Real Asset Is 250 Institutional Clients

◆ Nolan PrattAug 29

Commerce →

Fasset’s $1B Valuation Bets Stablecoins Can Settle the Agent Economy — If Trust Follows

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 24

Proof’s x401: The First Protocol Answering Who Is Behind the Agent

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 22

Visa’s Agentic Ready Program Moves Issuer-Layer Readiness From Theory to Production

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 17

Agents at Work →

Owner Bets Goldman Sachs Can Validate the AI Agent Model for Every Local Business

◆ Dana EllisonAug 29

Google Bets Deutsche Bank Can Make AI Agents Work Inside a Global Bank’s Compliance Framework

◆ Dana EllisonAug 29

Citigroup’s Arc Platform Is the Largest Measured Enterprise Agent Deployment Yet

◆ Dana EllisonAug 28

Agents at Home →

Matter Was Supposed to Unite Your Smart Home. It’s Creating a New Kind of Fragmentation.

◆ Mila CohenAug 29

One Year In, Your AI Voice Assistant Still Can’t Do Its Job

◆ Mila CohenAug 21

Amazon Makes Alexa+ Free on All Fire TV Devices — AI Agent Pricing Race to Zero

◆ Mila CohenAug 19

Trust & Security →

AI-Generated Scripts Eliminate the Expertise Barrier for Attacking Industrial Control Systems

◆ Heath CallahanAug 29

The ExploitGym Incident: 700 AI Agents Coordinate Multi-Day Attack on Hugging Face

◆ Heath CallahanAug 29

Three CVSS 10.0 Vulnerabilities in ServiceNow AI Platform Signal Escalating Infrastructure Risk

◆ Heath CallahanAug 29

Policy →

The FTC’s Latest AI Crackdown: Why ‘Active Listening’ Was Just a Marketing Mirage

◆ Priya NairAug 29

FTC Narrows AI Tool Provider Liability in Landmark Rytr Vacatur

◆ Priya NairAug 28

New York’s One Fair Price Act Adds the Broadest Data Definition Yet to the Algorithmic Pricing Patchwork

◆ Priya NairAug 25