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Money & Markets
Senate Bill 404 draws a line between banned passive yield and permitted activity-based rewards on stablecoins. The banking lobby hates it. Coinbase needs it. And the SEC will spend 360 days deciding what it actually means.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Infrastructure
The CDN giant built a purpose-built browser from scratch in 12 weeks, extending its infrastructure play from Workers to the execution layer where agents actually live.
◆ Blair Hayes
Agents at Work
Nearly 1 in 4 CHROs report entry-level hiring freezes tied to AI automation. But only 20% of organizations have seen significant value from the tools driving those cuts.
◆ Dana Ellison
Commerce
A new settlement infrastructure from Hong Kong-listed OSL Group abstracts across six payment protocols — USDT, USDC, USDGO, x402, AP2, and MPP — signaling the competitive layer is moving from which stablecoin wins to who controls the routing.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Models
The chipmaker is no longer just selling silicon to Stargate — it is buying equity in the electricity that runs its chips, crossing from vendor to power-infrastructure owner.
◆ Lena Park
Agents at Work
The Fortune 500 company is restructuring its entire workforce around personalized AI agents. The financial logic is aggressive — $2B to $9B in AI orders, 52% stock gains — and every other enterprise is benchmarking against it.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
AI agents are boosting less-experienced workers' productivity while firms cut the entry-level roles they'd traditionally fill. The structural hollowing is already underway — and the talent pipeline is at risk.
◆ Dana Ellison
Commerce
While Congress stalls on agent-payment regulation, the payment industry is assembling its own cross-sector governance body. The Secure Technology Alliance's new Forum maps exactly to the liability vacuum the 9th Circuit just confirmed.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Agents at Home
A massive security audit at DEF CON 34 reveals that your smart camera isn't just watching your home-it's broadcasting it to anyone with a wildcard.
◆ Mila Cohen
Money & Markets
The first concrete launch date from the bank tokenization wave arrives in Fall 2026, but the real story is why Wells Fargo is building a proprietary platform and a shared consortium ledger at the same time.
◆ Nolan Pratt
