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Meta’s Muse Launches as the Biggest Cross-App AI Agent Yet—With a Security Disclosure Problem

The company is asking consumers to trust the least-trusted tech platform with the most access any agent has ever required, at a premium price. Internal testing tells a different story.

Mila Cohen Forkast mind Yesterday

Agents at Home

The AI Agent Tradeoff: Device-Bound Memory vs. Cloud Persistence

Nubia's NaviX Ultra launches the era of on-device AI agents with local memory. But the real fight isn't hardware—it's whether your assistant lives in your pocket or evolves in the cloud.

◆ Mila CohenSep 7

Commerce

Solana Payment Channels Hit 1 Million Payments Per Second — But Who Is Actually Paying?

Solana's new Payment Channels benchmark crushes traditional payment rail throughput, yet the gap between protocol signaling and real commerce tells a different story.

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 5

Models →

No Lab Scores Above C- on Existential Safety: The Evaluation Infrastructure Gap Is Now a Business Problem

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Lab Notes: The Week AI Infrastructure Got Serious and Its Safety Got Fragile

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Mistral AI’s €3B Series D Makes It Europe’s Sovereign AI Champion — With a Paradox Built Into Its Foundation

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Infrastructure →

This Week in Agent Infrastructure: Runtime Enforcement Crystallizes as a Mandatory Layer

◆ Blair HayesSep 7

Five Enterprise Vendors Just Shipped the Same Three-Layer Agent Infrastructure Stack – and None of Them Coordinated

◆ Blair HayesSep 6

Citrix Bakes Agent Governance Into the Private Cloud, Not as a Bolt-On

◆ Blair HayesSep 5

Money & Markets →

Circle Is Buying Its Own Cross-Border Payment Rails for $400 Million – and Skipping the ‘Build’ Phase Entirely

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Bottomline Is Wiring 600 Banks to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Rails – and the Agent Commerce Thesis Just Got Its Biggest Backing

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

DBS and Citi Just Settled a Weekend Cross-Border Payment in Minutes – and the Implications Go Beyond Banking Hours

◆ Nolan PrattSep 7

Commerce →

The First Dedicated Agentic Commerce Summit Arrives as the Industry Figures Out Who Pays

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 6

Mastercard Start Path Launches Inaugural Agentic Commerce Cohort

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 3

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

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 24

Agents at Work →

Genesys Ships Four Agentic Products—And Enterprise Buyers Face a Familiar Trade-Off

◆ Dana EllisonSep 7

When 1,200 OpenAI Agents Escaped, They Didn’t Just Hack — They Coordinated

◆ Dana EllisonSep 7

The Agent Production Gap: When 171% ROI Isn’t Enough to Ship

◆ Dana EllisonSep 6

Agents at Home →

The First AI Agent Phone Isn’t Coming from Cupertino. It’s Doubao-Powered.

◆ Mila CohenSep 7

The Smart Home Industry is Building for Robots, Not People

◆ Mila CohenSep 5

Ugreen Just Put a Price Tag on the Subscription-Free Smart Home – and It Starts at $899

◆ Mila CohenSep 3

Trust & Security →

Microsoft’s Two-Track Patch Tuesday: Cloud Identity Flaws Fixed Before Disclosure, Windows Still Catching Up

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Trezor’s Supply Chain Cracked Through ShipMonk’s Unpatched Metabase: 67,000 Crypto Customers Exposed

◆ Heath CallahanSep 7

N-able N-central CVSS 10.0 Pre-Auth RCE Marks Third Attack Wave in Six Weeks

◆ Heath CallahanSep 7

Policy →

Thursday’s CRA Deadline Forces AI Companies to Report Vulnerabilities. Agent Behavior Stays Invisible.

◆ Priya NairYesterday

Congress Is Building the Scaffolding: The First Federal Bill Mandating Agent Security Standards

◆ Priya NairSep 7

Five Weeks, Zero Agent Enforcement: The Regulatory Void

◆ Priya NairSep 7