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Agents at Work
A survey-driven data set shows 55% of leaders regret their AI redundancies and 32% have rehired for eliminated roles. The correction wave is accelerating faster than the cuts themselves.
◆ Dana Ellison
Models
A coordinated coalition warns OpenAI not to destroy evidence from the July AI agent intrusion – arriving the same day the White House pursues voluntary cooperation.
◆ Lena Park
Agents at Home
We are being told the AI agent revolution is a feature problem. It isn't. It's a consent problem, and the market is already pushing back.
◆ Mila Cohen
Money & Markets
Morgan Stanley calls CRCL a shrinking utility. TD Cowen and Bernstein see a platform metamorphosis. The Aug 5 earnings print decides which thesis survives.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The $1.8B deal closes a bidding war that stretched from Coinbase to Zerohash and back. The signal: stablecoin infrastructure is no longer a partnership play.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Trust & Security
Everyone talked about autonomous agents. Almost nobody examined the two injection vectors that turned Hugging Face's dataset-processing pipeline into a production foothold.
◆ Heath Callahan
Agents at Home
The 4.4-pound wall: How the FCC's new foreign robot ban turns America's most recognizable home robot brand—now Chinese-owned—into a legacy device with an expiration date.
◆ Mila Cohen
Money & Markets
With BSTBL and BRSRV, BlackRock is positioning as the indispensable reserve infrastructure layer underneath every stablecoin issuer, turning GENIUS Act compliance into a structural moat.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Commerce
Animoca Brands chairman Yat Siu says the thesis was never 'machines all along.' It was humans who taught the infrastructure what it was actually for.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Models
Gemini Robotics 2 splits whole-body control, agentic reasoning, and on-device execution into three models — landing the same day the FCC bans Chinese humanoid robot imports.
◆ Lena Park
