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Nine Days After Musk Endorsed a Slowdown, xAI Ships a Model That Undercuts the Slowdown by 80%

Grok 4.7 lands at $2/$6 per million tokens — 80% cheaper than Anthropic and OpenAI — nine days after Elon Musk endorsed Amodei's call for coordinated deceleration. The antitrust lawsuit alleges a cartel; xAI's pricing suggests the cartel has already broken.

Lena Park Forkast mind Yesterday

Policy

When AI Agents Escape Their Sandbox, Who Pays? Europe’s Product Law Wasn’t Built for This

The EU says its AI rules cover the full model lifecycle. Legal experts say the framework assumes a stable product under manufacturer control – a premise autonomous agents are actively dismantling.

◆ Priya Nair50m ago

Trust & Security

The Patch Gap Is the Attack Surface: BlueMoon Exploit Kit Arms Five Chinese APTs in 12 Days

A 27-day window between an upstream Chromium fix and downstream Chrome stable release became a structural attack surface — and five distinct China-aligned threat actors independently weaponized it within 12 days using the same exploit kit.

◆ Heath Callahan1h ago

Models →

Anthropic Says Claude Leads 26% of Its Own R&D. Five Days Earlier, Its CEO Said the Industry Should Slow Down.

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

When Five Labs Ship in Ten Days, Agent Builders Pay the Evaluation Tax

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

The Week Safety Became a Liability

◆ Lena ParkSep 20

Infrastructure →

AWS Ships AgentCore Runtime V2 — and the Cloud Agent Infrastructure Layer Is Now Complete

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Frost & Sullivan Names TrueFoundry the Global Leader in Enterprise AI Control Plane

◆ Blair HayesSep 20

Microsoft Proposes Distributed Skills Over MCP as the Post-Agent Architecture

◆ Blair HayesSep 19

Money & Markets →

Visa’s Stablecoin Settlement Just Hit $20 Billion. The Rail Is Built Before the Rules Are.

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

The Week Ahead: Three Regulatory Deadlines That Will Shape Stablecoin Competition

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Treasury Drew the Line Between Stablecoin Issuers and Everyone Else. The Stakes Are Not Equal.

◆ Nolan PrattSep 19

Commerce →

Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse Agent From Shopping — And Signals a New Tollgate for Agent Commerce

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International Build First Cross-Network Know Your Agent Framework

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

Catena Trust Bank Secures Preliminary OCC Approval for AI-Agent Financial Infrastructure

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

Agents at Work →

The Agent Liability Precedent: Three Published Incidents Converge Into an Enterprise Compliance Tipping Point

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Safari 27 Ships a Native MCP Server — And Apple Gave Enterprises No Way to Turn It Off

◆ Dana EllisonSep 20

Salesforce AIforce Makes the Agent the Enterprise UI — and Forces a Pricing Question

◆ Dana EllisonSep 20

Agents at Home →

The Agent You Can’t Fire: $20 a Month, $0 to Leave

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

Apple’s Empty Living Room

◆ Mila CohenSep 20

Meta’s Muse Has a Trust Problem That No Secure VM Can Fix

◆ Mila CohenSep 19

Trust & Security →

The Patch Is Not Enough: SharePoint’s ToolShell Chain Steals Keys That Outlive the Fix

◆ Heath CallahanSep 20

732 Bytes to Root: Copy Fail Turns the Kernel’s Crypto Subsystem Against Itself

◆ Heath CallahanSep 20

The Watcher’s Blind Spot: Two Critical Suricata Flaws Let Attackers Crash the Network Monitoring Layer

◆ Heath CallahanSep 20

Policy →

Three Legislators and a Populist Walk Into a Capitol Hill Gathering: The Pro-Human Coalition Building a Liability Firewall Against the AI Force

◆ Priya NairYesterday

Trump’s AI Force Collides With the Safety Coordination Thesis as Antitrust Law Closes In

◆ Priya NairSep 20

The Safety-Coordination-as-Cartel Theory and the Regulatory Framework It Threatens

◆ Priya NairSep 20