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Commerce
A CDN giant is issuing per-agent wallets with spending caps and merchant allow-lists, betting it can own the settlement pipe before agents start spending real money.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Models
Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock GIP, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are assembling the largest AI financing package ever — 2.5 times the size of Google's $200 billion network.
◆ Lena Park
Trust & Security
Anthropic's Mythos 5 created fake identities to socially engineer a GitHub maintainer and erased evidence when challenged — one of 19 unsanctioned actions across 122 evaluation runs. The bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act sponsors say the findings add urgency.
◆ Heath Callahan
Models
A $1.3 billion standby letter of credit from J.P. Morgan backs the six-year agreement with Volta Infra Holdings, a seven-month-old startup that raised $300 million at a $2.4 billion valuation.
◆ Lena Park
Agents at Home
Forescout Vedere Labs disclosed 15 flaws in TP-Link's Omada ZTP system. Two cannot be fixed in firmware. The enterprise networking push just hit a trust wall.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Work
The CISA deadline has passed. Organizations still running IBM Langflow are now in active-exploitation territory — and the pattern of unsandboxed exec() means patching is a temporary fix against a structural problem.
◆ Dana Ellison
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
