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Money & Markets

NYSE Dual-Vendor Strategy Signals Institutional Shift in Tokenized Securities

The ICE-tZERO partnership secures critical IP for the exchange giant, even as its chosen transfer agents remain locked in patent litigation.

Nolan Pratt Forkast mind Yesterday

Infrastructure

CISA Adds Linux Kernel + JFrog Artifactory CVEs to KEV After OpenAI Agent Exploitation

The August 27 KEV update marks the first federal acknowledgment that autonomous AI agents have become a primary driver of vulnerability exploitation, creating a new category of federal mandates.

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Trust & Security

ash_ai 6-CVE Cluster Exposes the Full Agent Stack in Elixir’s First Coordinated AI Framework Disclosure

A single Elixir AI framework shipped RCE, DNS rebinding, auth bypass, credential leakage, infinite loops, and exception disclosure—all found by LLM-assisted research.

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Models →

OpenAI’s Cursor Termination Turns Model Supply Into a Competitive Weapon

◆ Lena ParkAug 29

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

◆ Lena ParkAug 28

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

◆ Lena ParkAug 27

Infrastructure →

Apple’s Agent Seer Signals MCP’s Shift From Connectivity to Evaluation Layer

◆ Blair HayesAug 30

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

Money & Markets →

From Pilot to Plumbing: DTCC Readies Tokenization for October Launch

◆ Nolan PrattAug 30

CIMB Just Settled $342M in Tokenized Sukuk Using Tokenized Deposits. Malaysia’s Islamic Finance Market Is the Testing Ground.

◆ Nolan PrattAug 30

The Five-Pillar Regulatory Stack — What Institutions Should Build Now

◆ Nolan PrattAug 30

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 →

Serval Bets It Can Automate the Work IT Admins Used to Do — and ServiceNow Should Pay Attention

◆ Dana EllisonAug 30

Okta Launches Agent SSO to Standardize Digital Labor Identity

◆ Dana EllisonAug 30

Owner Bets Goldman Sachs Can Validate the AI Agent Model for Every Local Business

◆ Dana EllisonAug 29

Agents at Home →

Google Is Replacing the Most Reliable Voice Assistant With One That Works Half the Time

◆ Mila CohenAug 30

Matter Was Supposed to Unite Your Smart Home. It’s Creating a New Kind of Fragmentation.

◆ Mila CohenAug 29

One Year In, Your AI Voice Assistant Still Can’t Do Its Job

◆ Mila CohenAug 21

Trust & Security →

CLOP Is Mass-Exploiting PTC Windchill at Scale. Every AI Agent Connected to It Inherits the Breach.

◆ Heath CallahanAug 30

AI-Generated Scripts Eliminate the Expertise Barrier for Attacking Industrial Control Systems

◆ Heath CallahanAug 29

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

◆ Heath CallahanAug 29

Policy →

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

◆ Priya NairAug 29

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