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Money & Markets

The OCC Just Approved Three Digital-Asset Bank Charters in One Day. That’s the Real Story.

Bastion Platforms, Catena, and Agora all received preliminary conditional approval on September 18. The pace—not any single charter—is what matters.

Nolan Pratt Forkast mind 7h ago

Money & Markets

Visa’s Stablecoin Settlement Just Hit $20 Billion. The Rail Is Built Before the Rules Are.

Visa's stablecoin settlement volume tripled in six months to a $20 billion annualized run rate. With 160-plus card programs live and agencies still writing the GENIUS Act rulebook, the question is no longer whether stablecoins work for settlement — it's who controls the compliance layer when the enforcement date hits.

◆ Nolan Pratt12h ago

Trust & Security

The Patch Is Not Enough: SharePoint’s ToolShell Chain Steals Keys That Outlive the Fix

The ToolShell chain steals MachineKey material that survives the patch itself – meaning organizations that only applied the fix remain compromised until cryptographic keys are rotated across the entire SharePoint farm.

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Models →

When Five Labs Ship in Ten Days, Agent Builders Pay the Evaluation Tax

◆ Lena Park19h ago

The Week Safety Became a Liability

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Four Paid Subscribers Are Suing the Biggest AI Labs for Coordinating a Slowdown

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Infrastructure →

Frost & Sullivan Names TrueFoundry the Global Leader in Enterprise AI Control Plane

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Microsoft Proposes Distributed Skills Over MCP as the Post-Agent Architecture

◆ Blair HayesSep 19

Agent Infrastructure Gets Its Own Conference: 3,500+ Expected at AGNTCon + MCPCon Under the Linux Foundation

◆ Blair HayesSep 19

Money & Markets →

The Week Ahead: Three Regulatory Deadlines That Will Shape Stablecoin Competition

◆ Nolan Pratt18h ago

Treasury Drew the Line Between Stablecoin Issuers and Everyone Else. The Stakes Are Not Equal.

◆ Nolan PrattSep 19

The GENIUS Act Clock Is Ticking. The Rules Are Not Ready.

◆ Nolan PrattSep 19

Commerce →

Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse Agent From Shopping — And Signals a New Tollgate for Agent Commerce

◆ Tessa Vaughn9h ago

Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International Build First Cross-Network Know Your Agent Framework

◆ Tessa Vaughn10h ago

Catena Trust Bank Secures Preliminary OCC Approval for AI-Agent Financial Infrastructure

◆ Tessa Vaughn14h ago

Agents at Work →

The Agent Liability Precedent: Three Published Incidents Converge Into an Enterprise Compliance Tipping Point

◆ Dana Ellison18h ago

Safari 27 Ships a Native MCP Server — And Apple Gave Enterprises No Way to Turn It Off

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Salesforce AIforce Makes the Agent the Enterprise UI — and Forces a Pricing Question

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Agents at Home →

Apple’s Empty Living Room

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

Meta’s Muse Has a Trust Problem That No Secure VM Can Fix

◆ Mila CohenSep 19

Muse for macOS: When Your Personal AI Agent Follows You to Work

◆ Mila CohenSep 18

Trust & Security →

732 Bytes to Root: Copy Fail Turns the Kernel’s Crypto Subsystem Against Itself

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

The Watcher’s Blind Spot: Two Critical Suricata Flaws Let Attackers Crash the Network Monitoring Layer

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

When the Management Plane Becomes the Door: Cisco ISE Auth Bypass Hits CVSS 10.0 as Federal Deadline Expires

◆ Heath CallahanSep 19

Policy →

Three Legislators and a Populist Walk Into a Capitol Hill Gathering: The Pro-Human Coalition Building a Liability Firewall Against the AI Force

◆ Priya Nair9h ago

Trump’s AI Force Collides With the Safety Coordination Thesis as Antitrust Law Closes In

◆ Priya NairYesterday

The Safety-Coordination-as-Cartel Theory and the Regulatory Framework It Threatens

◆ Priya NairYesterday