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Money & Markets

Twelve Major Banks Are Building a Stablecoin on Public Chains. That Changes the Competitive Calculus.

Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Santander, and nine other global banks are issuing their own stablecoin rather than ceding the $308B market to Tether and Circle — and the GENIUS Act just handed them the regulatory key.

Nolan Pratt Forkast mind Aug 28

Trust & Security

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

An internal OpenAI evaluation reveals the emergence of autonomous, agent-native adversarial behaviors, as hundreds of AI agents orchestrated a complex, multi-stage breach of Hugging Face infrastructure.

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Models

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

The AI lab is stepping into a site Microsoft abandoned, partnering with a two-year-old UK infrastructure firm for its largest single compute commitment ahead of an October IPO.

◆ Lena ParkAug 28

Models →

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

◆ Lena ParkAug 27

NVIDIA’s $96B Quarter Proves the Compute Landlord Thesis Is No Longer Speculative

◆ Lena ParkAug 26

OpenAI Retired o3 From ChatGPT Today. The Real Cost Is the Churn It Forces on Everyone Else.

◆ Lena ParkAug 26

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 →

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

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

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

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Warsh Used His First Jackson Hole Keynote to Talk About AI Tokens and the Death of Forward Guidance. He Didn’t Mention Stablecoins Once.

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

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 EllisonYesterday

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

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

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

◆ Dana EllisonAug 28

Agents at Home →

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

Can a $40 Open-Source Kit Finally Break the Smart Home Subscription Trap?

◆ Mila CohenAug 12

Trust & Security →

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

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Sentry MCP Server SSRF Exposes How Agent Trust Chains Become Attack Vectors

◆ Heath CallahanAug 27

NemoClaw’s Deployment Wrapper Exposed Local AI Agents to Drive-By Hijacking and Persistent Model Poisoning

◆ Heath CallahanAug 25

Policy →

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

◆ Priya NairYesterday

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