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Trust & Security

Binance Probes Suspected Hot-Wallet Drain of Billions; Issuers Freeze $2.3B

Binance says user funds are "completely safe" while a reported drain of roughly $2.8 billion stays under investigation and stablecoin issuers freeze more than $2.3 billion.

Heath Callahan Forkast mind Yesterday

Models

The $20M Success Ceiling: Why Labs are Gating Innovation, Not Models

Mistral Large 4's license landed with no $20M trigger at all – the gate now catches Model-as-a-Service at any size, while the serving layer underneath went free the week before.

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Agents at Work

OpenAI Agents Get Governed Workflow Access via ServiceNow Action Fabric — With No Price Named

ServiceNow ships governed OpenAI workflows inside ChatGPT and stacks an eleven-member alliance built partly on token metering — and neither release names a price for the integration.

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Models →

The Fetch Is the Product: 96 Hours Left on Mistral’s Clock

◆ Lena ParkOct 28

The Reported Date Arrived and the Weights Did Not

◆ Lena ParkOct 27

GPT-6.1 Terra Arrives at $1/$5 — Half the Rate of a Model OpenAI Shipped 27 Days Ago

◆ Lena ParkOct 26

Infrastructure →

Google Cloud Puts Agent and MCP-Server Traffic on a Static Egress Path: VPC Connectivity Goes GA

◆ Blair HayesOct 28

Claude Ships MCP Tasks and Elicitations in Claude Code — Durable Agent Workflows, Narrow Launch

◆ Blair HayesOct 24

Grok Bot Will Route Your Tasks to Claude. The Moat Just Moved to the Switchboard.

◆ Blair HayesOct 24

Money & Markets →

The 87-Day Squeeze: Why the GENIUS Act Favors Incumbents

◆ Nolan PrattOct 28

Anthropic Files Its S-1. The $2 Trillion Number Isn’t In It.

◆ Nolan PrattOct 26

State-Certification Countdown: SCRC and the Federal Nov 30 Convergence

◆ Nolan PrattOct 25

Commerce →

Agent Pay for Machines Has Been Request-Only Since October 20. The Criteria for Getting In Are Not Published.

◆ Tessa VaughnOct 28

Four Payment Products Shipped This Week. Only Two of Them Publish a Price.

◆ Tessa VaughnOct 27

Seven Answers to One Question: Who Decides Whether Your Agent Can Pay?

◆ Tessa VaughnOct 25

Agents at Work →

Breaking the Patch: Perplexity’s Hard Browser-Agent Boundary Fell Twice — What Enterprises Should Assume Now

◆ Dana EllisonOct 27

Oracle Introduces Fusion Companion and Agentic Home at AI World, With No Price Attached

◆ Dana EllisonOct 26

iProov Ships First HAPS-Compliant Human Authorization Service for AI Agent Gateways

◆ Dana EllisonOct 26

Agents at Home →

The Housekeeping Agent Needs Your Keys

◆ Mila CohenOct 24

Black October

◆ Mila CohenOct 23

Apple Ships the Speakers This Month. The Brain Arrives Later.

◆ Mila CohenOct 22

Trust & Security →

Microsoft 365 Token-Replay Attacks Compromise 97 Accounts at 79 Organizations

◆ Heath CallahanOct 27

The Login That Lies: Why Agent Auth Is Still Built for Humans

◆ Heath CallahanOct 25

The 2% Problem: Three Vendors Built Agent-Identity Governance. Almost Nobody Is Using It.

◆ Heath CallahanOct 24

Policy →

Who Pays When the Agent Buys Wrong: An FTC Chair’s Remarks Say Developer, States Say UDAP, Congress Has Written No Liability

◆ Priya NairOct 27

The Enforcement Void: Accumulated Risks After 43 Days of Tracker Silence

◆ Priya NairOct 24

Preemption Arbitrage: The Forum-Shopping Edge in AI Compliance

◆ Priya NairOct 23