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Money & Markets

Public Just Wired Prediction Markets Into Its AI Agent Layer. That’s a New Kind of Rail.

The agentic brokerage launched automated event-driven trading via Kalshi, folding CFTC-regulated prediction-market signals into stock and bond strategies. It's the same pattern: infrastructure before regulation.

◆ Nolan PrattSep 25

Trust & Security

Unauthenticated RAG Poisoning in IBM Financial Transaction Manager Exposes MCP Tool Calls to Hijacking

A severe flaw in IBM's FTM AI agent server lets unauthenticated attackers inject malicious runbooks into vector stores, weaponizing the text retrieved by autonomous payment workflows.

◆ Heath CallahanSep 25

Policy

Progressive Democrats Establish Prohibitionist Left Flank on Artificial Superintelligence

AOC and nine House Democrats are co-sponsoring the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, staking out an outright prohibition position that challenges the bipartisan governance consensus — and setting the terms for 2028.

◆ Priya NairSep 25

Agents at Work

Darktrace Proved That AI Agent Tools Can Be Hijacked Through Their Own Memory — And the Fix Is Out of Your Hands

Researchers demonstrated 'conversation history poisoning' across Claude Code, Codex, Kiro-CLI, and Pi. A single malicious package install can weaponize an AI coding workflow into an autonomous attacker. The cryptographic signing fix must come from providers.

◆ Dana EllisonSep 24

Infrastructure

The Agent Infrastructure Stack Is Now a Framework Product: LangChain Interrupt 2026 Ships Same Harness Pattern

LangChain's Interrupt 2026 announcements confirm that the opinionated-default agent architecture cloud vendors shipped this week is now the baseline for application frameworks, too.

◆ Blair HayesSep 24

Agents at Home

Muse’s Retail Connector Play Is Bigger Than the Five-Body Problem Suggested

10 major retailers + Shop Pay + PayPal worldwide forming an alternative retail axis. Amazon is the structural outlier, not the retail channel itself.

◆ Mila CohenSep 24

Money & Markets

The Fed Is the Last Major Agency to Lay Down Stablecoin Rules. That Closes the Supervisory Gap – and Starts the Clock.

The Federal Reserve released two NPRMs for Board-supervised payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act, completing the federal agency rulemaking picture and narrowing the window before the January 18, 2027 enforcement cliff.

◆ Nolan PrattSep 24

Infrastructure

The Agent Stack Just Became a Commodity

Three different vendor classes shipped the same opinionated agent harness architecture in the same 48-hour window – and the 'build your own stack' era ended with it.

◆ Blair HayesSep 24

Agents at Home

The Agent Home’s Three-Body Problem Is Now a Five-Body Problem

Meta, Apple, and Google all launched personal AI agents in the same week. None of them can do your shopping, control your whole home, or earn your trust — yet.

◆ Mila CohenSep 24

Infrastructure

How Meta Built Agent Security Into the Kernel: eBPF Taint Tracking and Credential Surrogation

Meta's Sentinel architecture uses eBPF kernel hooks and credential surrogation to classify agent processes by data access — the first operating system-level security model built specifically for consumer AI agents.

◆ Blair HayesSep 24