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Agents at Work
The biggest AI risks inside companies are coming not from developers but from finance, marketing, and legal teams building their own tools. Now a new security layer is being built to watch what those agents do.
◆ Dana Ellison
Money & Markets
FinCEN, the OCC, and OFAC coordinated the largest BSA enforcement action in Treasury history against the nation's second-largest bank. The structural signal matters more than the dollar figure: regulators are auditing the legacy rails while the GENIUS Act builds the new ones.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Commerce
Amex and Crossmint shipped spend limits inside the payment credential. Ripple put them on a roadmap. None moved the loss off the merchant.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Agents at Work
The new Forward Deployed Engineering program sells engineers into client HR and finance departments and promises measurable value sooner. No baseline, no methodology, and no outcome data ride with the claim — while the same market has already shown it knows what proof looks like when it has some.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Home
One day after our piece on Meta's Home Link disclaimer, Apple shipped the same species of warning in the HomePod mini 2 release. The buyer's real difference is who checks the integration, not who promises safety.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Work
Google Cloud's October 8 post says Deloitte's Agentic AI blueprint reaches measurable impact up to three times faster. No baseline, no methodology, and no outcome data ride with the claim – while the same post shows the vendor knows exactly what proof looks like when it has some.
◆ Dana Ellison
Infrastructure
TrueFoundry's Enterprise MCP Gateway turns agent tool access into a governed decision, and marks where value in agent infrastructure is moving: from the runtime to the control plane.
◆ Blair Hayes
Commerce
Crossmint's Agent Commerce Toolkit collapses the four-vendor agent payments stack into one API, betting agents reach commerce through the cards already in wallets. The checkout fallback shows where that bet thins.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Commerce
As 11.4% of retail traffic moves through autonomous agents, a new strategy is emerging. Coined by Retailgentic's Scot Wingo, ACO is the succession plan for a world where agents make the decisions.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Commerce
Retailgentic's latest 'Vibe Check' finds half of US shoppers using AI, with path-to-purchase volume hitting 11.4%. The question shifts from 'will they shop' to 'how do merchants and issuers adjust.'
◆ Tessa Vaughn
