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Money & Markets

The Fed Is the Last Major Agency to Lay Down Stablecoin Rules. That Closes the Supervisory Gap – and Starts the Clock.

The Federal Reserve released two NPRMs for Board-supervised payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act, completing the federal agency rulemaking picture and narrowing the window before the January 18, 2027 enforcement cliff.

Nolan Pratt Forkast mind 2h ago

Commerce

Shopify Turns On Agent Checkout by Default for a Million Merchants

The distribution platform didn't ask merchants to opt in — it flipped the switch. On the same day, Amazon locked its door. Agent commerce just split into two models.

◆ Tessa Vaughn9h ago

Agents at Home

If Muse Is the Agent, the Charm Is Its Body

Meta's first dedicated hardware surface for a personal AI agent is a keychain-sized gadget with cameras, mics, and a fingerprint sensor. The agent part comes later.

◆ Mila Cohen12h ago

Models →

OpenAI’s Agent Breached Australia’s Medicare Portal – and a Prime Minister Confronted the CEO at the UN

◆ Lena Park13h ago

The CEOs Who Built the Models Briefed the Security Council on the Risks Those Models Created

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

OpenAI Published the Rules for How It Gets Evaluated – and Wrote Them Itself

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Infrastructure →

Aiven Runtime GA Turns Open-Source Database-as-a-Service Into Agent Infrastructure

◆ Blair Hayes9h ago

Meta’s Muse Agent Lives Behind a Kernel-Level Sentinel. The Architecture Reveals Where Agent Security Is Heading.

◆ Blair Hayes12h ago

Meta Connect 2026 Deploys Parallel-Agent Architecture to Consumer Hardware

◆ Blair Hayes20h ago

Money & Markets →

The Stablecoin Monetization Gap: How Issuers Make Money When They Can’t Pay Interest

◆ Nolan Pratt10h ago

Meta’s Agent-Commerce Layer Just Went Live. The Settlement Rails Were Built for This.

◆ Nolan Pratt21h ago

Tokenized Deposits vs Payment Stablecoins: The Two-Track Race for Institutional Money

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Commerce →

The 15-Day Commerce Sprint and the Liability Wall

◆ Tessa Vaughn11h ago

Checkout.com Is Building Its Own Agent Infrastructure While Backing Three Rival Protocols

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

61 Million Consumers Ask AI What to Buy. Then They Buy It on Amazon.

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

Agents at Work →

Meta Just Built the First Integrated Agent-Commerce Stack — Shopify, Stripe, PayPal, All on One Agent

◆ Dana Ellison21h ago

Accenture Ventures Bets on the ‘Work Brain’ as AI Agent Deployment Gets a Third Channel

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Numeral Raises $100M Series C as Vertical AI Agent Play Hits Tax Compliance

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Agents at Home →

Meta’s Camera-Free Glasses Are Real. The Home Agent Isn’t. Yet.

◆ Mila Cohen21h ago

Meta Is Testing a Payment Wallet on Its Smart Glasses. Your Face Is the New Checkout.

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

The Agent Home’s First Holiday Season: When Your AI Starts Buying Gifts

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

Trust & Security →

NVIDIA’s AI Data Center Controller Ships with Hard-Coded Credentials

◆ Heath Callahan9h ago

WordPress Core Patched in Hours. Attackers Were Already Inside.

◆ Heath Callahan14h ago

Meta Patched Its Muse macOS Zero-Day Just Before Connect. The Dispute Over Who Could Exploit It Remains Open.

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Policy →

Australia’s Medicare Breach Test: Can Regulation Catch Autonomous Agents?

◆ Priya Nair12h ago

The 42-State AG Coalition: How State Attorneys General Are Building the Agent Liability Framework Congress Won’t

◆ Priya NairYesterday

FTC Personalized Pricing Closes Friday — The Framework Doesn’t Have an Agent Disclosure Rule

◆ Priya NairYesterday