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Money & Markets

The OCC’s Stablecoin Rulebook Is Final. The Moat Fight Moves to a Second Rulemaking.

12 CFR Part 15 takes effect January 18, 2027 with the AML and sanctions layer deferred to a joint OCC-Treasury rulemaking, and non-bank issuers now race a locked compliance date toward an application window that opens when OMB approves the forms.

Nolan Pratt Forkast mind 2h ago

Models

NVIDIA Gave Away the Model on October 15. Berlin Sold the Infrastructure on October 21.

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL shipped open weights, open datasets, and training recipes six days before the keynote that made them industrial policy. NVIDIA's own figures say nearly $10 billion committed to Europe, not the $2 billion that circulated before the speech.

◆ Lena Park2h ago

Policy

EBA Designates Circle’s USDC as Europe’s First ‘Significant’ MiCA EMT, Bringing Dual Supervision From Nov. 12

The first significant-EMT classification splits prudential oversight between the EBA and France's ACPR on a fixed clock, while a non-binding MoU with New York creates the EBA's first transatlantic supervisory corridor for stablecoins. The mechanics matter more than the headline.

◆ Priya Nair19h ago

Models →

llm-d 1.0 Ships the Serving Layer DeepSeek Withheld. The Sponsors Sell the Managed Version.

◆ Lena Park19h ago

DeepSeek Open-Sourced the Engine That Runs Its Models – on Nvidia and Huawei Silicon Alike

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Four Labs Converged on a $20M Revenue Gate. For Agent Builders, That Is a Deployment Ceiling

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Infrastructure →

Rhapsody Guardian: Healthcare Builds Its Own Agent Gatekeeper, Ahead of Any Shared Spec.

◆ Blair Hayes19h ago

Google and Meta Open-Source TorchTPU: Decoupling Model Code from Silicon

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

CAEVES Ships Context LAKE: Enterprise Context as a Managed MCP Service

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Money & Markets →

Lead Bank Rolls Out Stablecoin On-Ramps, Off-Ramps and 44-Country FX Payouts

◆ Nolan Pratt19h ago

The SEC’s Crypto Offering Rule Stops Bending Tonight, and Platforms Are Still Sitting in the Footnotes

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Euronet and Fireblocks Expand Stablecoin-Funded Card Programs to Every Bank’s Existing Portfolio

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Commerce →

The November Deadline: Holiday Peak vs. Liability Shift

◆ Tessa Vaughn6h ago

Sierra and Stripe Let Agents Take Card Payments Inside Phone Calls. The Agent Never Sees the Card.

◆ Tessa Vaughn19h ago

Evervault’s Browser Tokens Solve Credential Theft. The Banks Weren’t Worried About Credential Theft.

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

Agents at Work →

AWS Shipped the Full Agent Stack in One Keynote. What You Can Turn On Today Is Smaller.

◆ Dana Ellison6h ago

Gemini for Government Services Arrives as a Private Preview. The Compliance Wrapper Is What’s for Sale.

◆ Dana Ellison19h ago

Make Unveils MakeOS, a ‘Glass Box’ for Enterprise Agents – and a Waitlist

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Agents at Home →

The Shipping Month Is Here: What Actually Lands in Your House Before December, and What Ships Without Its Agent

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

Your Home Agent’s First Autonomy Test: The Scenarios Nobody Has Stress-Tested

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

Muse’s ‘Forget’ Button Doesn’t Delete Anything — And Your Home Agent Knows It

◆ Mila CohenOct 19

Trust & Security →

BeyondTrust Remote Support Ships Internal Messaging That Can Be Spoofed. ARMORY CASTLE Exploited It in August.

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

SAP Cloud SDK for Python Lets Attackers Steal OAuth2 Credentials Through a Tenant Subdomain Input — CVSS 10.0

◆ Heath CallahanOct 18

Know Your Agent: How the Payments Industry Is Building the Trust Layer OAuth and SAML Couldn’t

◆ Heath CallahanOct 18

Policy →

The Great American AI Act Mirrors California’s AI Rulebook and Would Preempt It for Three Years

◆ Priya NairYesterday

Treasury NPRM Comment Period Closes TODAY: What the Industry Filed Before the GENIUS Act Deadline

◆ Priya NairOct 19

Tuesday’s SEC Comment Deadline Closes the Last Public Window Before the GENIUS Act Compliance Stack Locks In

◆ Priya NairOct 18