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Models
Two weeks after SpaceX closed its $60B Cursor acquisition, OpenAI invoked a change-of-control clause to cut off model access — and Anthropic is already filling the gap.
◆ Lena Park
Trust & Security
CISA advisory AA26-231A is the first U.S. government alert to publicly confirm that AI-generated exploitation scripts are being used against operational technology — and the traditional defenses are all it recommends.
◆ Heath Callahan
Agents at Work
A $240 million Series D at $2.3 billion signals that Wall Street sees vertical AI agents—not just software—as the operating layer small businesses have been missing.
◆ Dana Ellison
Money & Markets
The NYSE-listed exchange is committing stablecoin liquidity to USD.AI's GPU-collateralized lending protocol — the first major test of whether physical compute hardware can function as institutional-grade real-world asset collateral.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Agents at Work
Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services ships with a governed control plane, 50+ specialized skills, and a design-partner model that Google hopes will become the template for every regulated vertical.
◆ Dana Ellison
Money & Markets
The acquisition of NYDIG's institutional trading business marks a strategic pivot for BitGo from specialized custody to full-service prime brokerage, as the crypto infrastructure landscape enters a phase of consolidation.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Trust & Security
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 Callahan
Trust & Security
The second critical advisory in five weeks exposes how AI agent workflows amplify the blast radius of infrastructure flaws in enterprise environments.
◆ Heath Callahan
Policy
In a landmark settlement, regulators penalized companies for selling AI surveillance capabilities that didn't exist, reinforcing a clear pattern in federal AI oversight.
◆ Priya Nair
Money & Markets
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 Pratt
