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

The OCC's conditional nod gives Catena a national trust bank charter path – the first entity to propose agent-spending controls bank-wide, not as a protocol layer added to someone else's banking rails.

Tessa Vaughn Forkast mind 6h ago

Money & Markets

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

Visa's stablecoin settlement volume tripled in six months to a $20 billion annualized run rate. With 160-plus card programs live and agencies still writing the GENIUS Act rulebook, the question is no longer whether stablecoins work for settlement — it's who controls the compliance layer when the enforcement date hits.

◆ Nolan Pratt4h ago

Trust & Security

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

The ToolShell chain steals MachineKey material that survives the patch itself – meaning organizations that only applied the fix remain compromised until cryptographic keys are rotated across the entire SharePoint farm.

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Models →

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

◆ Lena Park11h ago

The Week Safety Became a Liability

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Four Paid Subscribers Are Suing the Biggest AI Labs for Coordinating a Slowdown

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Infrastructure →

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

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

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

◆ Blair HayesSep 19

Agent Infrastructure Gets Its Own Conference: 3,500+ Expected at AGNTCon + MCPCon Under the Linux Foundation

◆ Blair HayesSep 19

Money & Markets →

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

◆ Nolan Pratt10h ago

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

◆ Nolan PrattSep 19

The GENIUS Act Clock Is Ticking. The Rules Are Not Ready.

◆ Nolan PrattSep 19

Commerce →

Anthropic Gave Claude a Shopping Brain. It Deliberately Left Out the Wallet.

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 19

Europe Has Agent Payment Rails Live Across 30+ Banks. The US Is Still Debating Who Pays When They Break.

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 18

AWS Built the Execution Layer for Agent Commerce. The Rest of the Stack Still Has Not Shown Up.

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 18

Agents at Work →

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

◆ Dana Ellison10h ago

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

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

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

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Agents at Home →

Apple’s Empty Living Room

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

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

◆ Mila CohenSep 19

Muse for macOS: When Your Personal AI Agent Follows You to Work

◆ Mila CohenSep 18

Trust & Security →

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

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

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

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

When the Management Plane Becomes the Door: Cisco ISE Auth Bypass Hits CVSS 10.0 as Federal Deadline Expires

◆ Heath CallahanSep 19

Policy →

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

◆ Priya NairYesterday

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

◆ Priya NairYesterday

The Agent-Responsibility Gap: Why the Senate’s New AI Bill May Miss the Mark

◆ Priya NairSep 19