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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 Park Forkast mind Yesterday

Money & Markets

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

At a symposium explicitly themed 'Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,' the Fed Chair's strategic omission of digital assets signals a widening gap between the central bank and the institutions already building on public blockchains.

◆ Nolan Pratt2h ago

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 PrattYesterday

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 →

Mirae Asset’s $109 Billion Crypto Pivot Hinges on a 0.5% Market Share Exchange

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Canton Network Gets Its $4B Cash Leg as WLFI’s USD1 Goes Native

◆ Nolan PrattAug 27

Tradeweb and Virtu Just Ran the First Fully Onchain Repo. The Plumbing Is the Story.

◆ Nolan PrattAug 27

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 →

Epic’s Agent Factory Is the Anti-Horizontal Play for Enterprise AI

◆ Dana EllisonAug 27

Rillet Raised $100M to Put AI Agents Inside the General Ledger – Not Around It

◆ Dana EllisonAug 22

Twin1 AI Raised $20M to Clone Your Best Workers — Starting With Lawyers

◆ Dana EllisonAug 21

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 →

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

AWS Strands Agents Tools Received Four CVEs in 23 Days — And They All Share the Same Root Cause

◆ Heath CallahanAug 22

Policy →

New York’s One Fair Price Act Adds the Broadest Data Definition Yet to the Algorithmic Pricing Patchwork

◆ Priya NairAug 25

The FTC Has Policed 13 AI Cases. None Target Agent Behavior.

◆ Priya NairAug 22

Three States Banned Agent Pricing Without Naming Agents

◆ Priya NairAug 22