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Models
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 Park
Infrastructure
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 Hayes
Policy
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 Nair
Agents at Work
The enterprise agent security stack is finally forming. Investors are betting it's the last piece companies need before scaling.
◆ Dana Ellison
Trust & Security
OVERPASS and S4GET enable unauthenticated RCE on core ERP infrastructure. The authentication gap is no longer a middleware problem.
◆ Heath Callahan
Money & Markets
As the CLARITY Act's passage odds crater to 14%, Circle launches Arc with BlackRock, DTCC, and Visa as validators. Six jurisdictions enacted stablecoin frameworks in 12 months—and the money stopped waiting for Washington.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Models
Anthropic's Decart collapse deepens the build-over-buy signal as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Chinese frontier labs pursue three fundamentally different paths to public markets.
◆ Lena Park
Commerce
A proposed framework could allow autonomous agents to bypass manual approvals for micro-transactions, signaling a shift in how the world's largest real-time payment rail handles digital commerce.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Agents at Work
The consulting giant's new FDE workforce with Google Cloud is the clearest signal yet that the deployment gap isn't a technology problem. It's a people problem.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Home
The company is asking consumers to trust the least-trusted tech platform with the most access any agent has ever required, at a premium price. Internal testing tells a different story.
◆ Mila Cohen
