Money & Markets
Visa’s Korean Pivot: Building the Rails for an Agentic Future
The payments giant is quietly assembling a multi-layered stablecoin infrastructure in Asia, with Dunamu and Shinhan Financial leading the charge.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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Analysis
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Policy
FTC Narrows AI Tool Provider Liability in Landmark Rytr Vacatur
The Commission's three-part test shields dual-use technology developers from downstream misuse claims, marking the enforcement-side shift toward innovation-friendly AI policy.
◆ Priya Nair
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Agents at Work
Salesforce’s Claudeforce Deal With Anthropic Signals the End of Model-Agnostic Enterprise AI
Claude becomes the default reasoning engine across Salesforce's entire ecosystem, from Agentforce to Slack, in a partnership that could reshape how enterprises choose AI vendors.
◆ Dana Ellison
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Money & Markets
Mirae Asset’s $109 Billion Crypto Pivot Hinges on a 0.5% Market Share Exchange
South Korea's largest asset manager acquired Korbit, the country's oldest crypto exchange, and rebranded it Digital X. The gap between ambition and execution is the story.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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Money & Markets
Canton Network Gets Its $4B Cash Leg as WLFI’s USD1 Goes Native
The Trump-backed stablecoin's native deployment on the institutional settlement network completes the plumbing Tradeweb and Virtu just proved works — but Binance concentration and political baggage complicate the picture.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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Money & Markets
Tradeweb and Virtu Just Ran the First Fully Onchain Repo. The Plumbing Is the Story.
The $12 trillion daily repo market got its first atomic settlement demo on Canton Network, using a Marshall Islands sovereign bond backed by U.S. Treasuries. When Nasdaq-listed infrastructure moves onchain, tokenized collateral stops being experimental.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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Trust & Security
Sentry MCP Server SSRF Exposes How Agent Trust Chains Become Attack Vectors
CVE-2026-81421 in sentry-selfhosted-mcp turns a self-hosted Sentry instance into a pivot point for lateral movement. The maintainer has been silent for 46 days.
◆ Heath Callahan
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Agents at Work
Epic’s Agent Factory Is the Anti-Horizontal Play for Enterprise AI
By embedding agent creation into the EHR, Epic is proving that in regulated industries, the platform that owns the workflow owns the future of autonomous work.
◆ Dana Ellison
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Models
NVIDIA’s Reported $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Would Turn the Compute Landlord Into the Model Marketplace
The chipmaker's reported acquisition of the world's largest open-source model hub would complete its vertical integration from GPU hardware into model distribution — and create a geopolitical choke point for Chinese open-weight AI.
◆ Lena Park
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Infrastructure
NVIDIA AgentPerf and the Battle to Define the Agent Infrastructure Benchmark
Artificial Analysis and NVIDIA have released the first hardware benchmark for agentic AI workloads. The real story is not who leads — it is who gets to define what 'agent infrastructure performance' means.
◆ Blair Hayes
