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Money & Markets

Tether Is Building Yield Infrastructure Around the GENIUS Act’s Interest Ban – and It Is Not Alone

StableFund, a $400M private credit vehicle from Tether and Fasanara Capital, reveals the playbook stablecoin issuers are adopting: if the token cannot pay interest, the infrastructure around it will.

◆ Nolan PrattSep 9

Models

Cognition AI’s $48B Valuation Treats Coding Agents Like Infrastructure — And the Revenue Multiple Agrees

The coding agent company nearly doubled its valuation in four months while revenue kept pace. At ~53x annualized run-rate, investors are pricing Devin as a platform layer, not a developer tool.

◆ Lena ParkSep 9

Money & Markets

U.S. Bank’s Stablecoin Pilot on Stellar Sends a Clear Signal: Banks Want Their Own Rails

The fifth-largest U.S. bank completed a live cross-border payment using its proprietary USBDC stablecoin on Stellar-seven days before Circle Arc's mainnet launch and absent from its validator list.

◆ Nolan PrattSep 9

Agents at Work

Cognition AI Hit $48B. The Real Story Is Who’s Already Deploying

Goldman Sachs is scaling Devin across thousands of engineers. Cognizant is generating 30% of its code with AI. The valuation is a lagging indicator of enterprise adoption that's already underway.

◆ Dana EllisonSep 9

Trust & Security

Ivanti’s September Patch Day Drops Two Authentication Bypasses – Endpoint Management Is Now Part of the Gap

Sentry and EPMM join PaperCut, N-able, Microsoft, and SAP as the latest enterprise management tools where authentication fails before the system checks who is asking.

◆ Heath CallahanSep 9

Money & Markets

The Institutional Pivot: Why Wall Street’s Blockchain Bets No Longer Need Washington’s Permission

BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, and Mastercard are launching Circle Arc the day after the CLARITY Act is expected to fail. The money moved anyway — and the January 2027 enforcement cliff is now the only deadline that matters.

◆ Nolan PrattSep 9

Models

OpenAI Used Its Own AI Models to Design the Jalapeno Chip – The Compute Landlord Thesis Just Went Recursive

CFO Sarah Friar confirmed at Goldman Sachs' Communacopia conference that OpenAI's frontier models helped architect the very silicon they run on, extending the compute landlord thesis into self-designing hardware.

◆ Lena ParkSep 9

Infrastructure

Three Standards Bodies Are Writing the Rules for Agent Infrastructure — And They’re Not Waiting for the Market

As standards from OWASP, NIST, and the AAIF begin to overlap, builders must reconcile runtime enforcement, identity protocols, and interoperability to secure production-grade agent systems.

◆ Blair HayesSep 9

Policy

Three Bills, Three Theories: Congress Is Competing Over Who Gets to Regulate AI Agents

Three incompatible governance frameworks for AI agents are competing in Congress simultaneously, with no convergence path. The structural choice between infrastructure, prohibition, and fiduciary duty will define the US agent economy.

◆ Priya NairSep 9

Agents at Work

Enterprise AI Agent Funding Surges to $435M in Five Months — Security and Governance Lead

The enterprise agent security stack is finally forming. Investors are betting it's the last piece companies need before scaling.

◆ Dana EllisonSep 9