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Money & Markets

39 State Banking Associations Are Building Their Own Blockchain. The Technology Partner Is Still TBD.

The BankChain Alliance unites nearly every state bankers association in the country behind a permissioned network targeting 2027 — the same window the GENIUS Act enforcement begins. But the consortium has no technology partner yet, and the big-bank networks are already ahead.

Nolan Pratt Forkast mind 11h ago

Trust & Security

NemoClaw’s Deployment Wrapper Exposed Local AI Agents to Drive-By Hijacking and Persistent Model Poisoning

CVE-2026-65105 shows how a single configuration choice — binding Ollama to 0.0.0.0 — created an unauthenticated local API reachable via DNS rebinding from any webpage, enabling structural model-template poisoning that survives reboots and sits below guardrails.

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Models

Nvidia’s $30B Perplexity Bet Extends the Compute Landlord Thesis Into AI Search

The chipmaker reportedly explored a licensing deal before pivoting to equity – the same playbook it ran with Poolside and Groq – signaling a deeper commitment to owning the inference layer.

◆ Lena ParkAug 24

Models →

Qwen 3.8 Closes the Reasoning Gap, but Agentic Coding Remains a US Stronghold

◆ Lena ParkAug 22

Anthropic’s Q2 Revenue Overtook OpenAI for the First Time – And Reached Its First Positive Operating Income

◆ Lena ParkAug 22

Nvidia’s $7 Billion Poolside Deal Reveals a Licensing Playbook That Sidesteps Acquisition Scrutiny

◆ Lena ParkAug 21

Infrastructure →

CVE-2026-76404: The MCP Security Wave Reaches Enterprise Infrastructure

◆ Blair HayesAug 22

Cloudflare Gateway Makes Shadow MCP Visible and Blockable

◆ Blair HayesAug 22

AWS AgentCore Harness Bypass Exposed a Cross-Platform Vulnerability Class in Agent Runtimes

◆ Blair HayesAug 22

Money & Markets →

The CFTC’s Crypto Fallback Faces a Credibility Test

◆ Nolan PrattAug 24

Ethena and FalconX: Institutionalizing the USDe Yield Pipeline

◆ Nolan PrattAug 22

Ripple Is Turning RLUSD From a Payment Token Into Institutional Lending Collateral

◆ Nolan PrattAug 21

Commerce →

Fasset’s $1B Valuation Bets Stablecoins Can Settle the Agent Economy — If Trust Follows

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 24

Proof’s x401: The First Protocol Answering Who Is Behind the Agent

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 22

Visa’s Agentic Ready Program Moves Issuer-Layer Readiness From Theory to Production

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 17

Agents at Work →

Rillet Raised $100M to Put AI Agents Inside the General Ledger – Not Around It

◆ Dana EllisonAug 22

Twin1 AI Raised $20M to Clone Your Best Workers — Starting With Lawyers

◆ Dana EllisonAug 21

HappyRobot Wants $1.2 Billion to Run Your Freight by Voice

◆ Dana EllisonAug 20

Agents at Home →

One Year In, Your AI Voice Assistant Still Can’t Do Its Job

◆ Mila CohenAug 21

Amazon Makes Alexa+ Free on All Fire TV Devices — AI Agent Pricing Race to Zero

◆ Mila CohenAug 19

Can a $40 Open-Source Kit Finally Break the Smart Home Subscription Trap?

◆ Mila CohenAug 12

Trust & Security →

AWS Strands Agents Tools Received Four CVEs in 23 Days — And They All Share the Same Root Cause

◆ Heath CallahanAug 22

Microsoft’s CVSS 10.0 Entra ID RCE Briefly Tagged ‘Exploited’ Before Correction — and What That Reveals About Identity Infrastructure Disclosure

◆ Heath CallahanAug 22

CVE-2026-40369 Exploit Code Drops Three Months After Patch — and AI Agents Inherit the Sandbox Escape

◆ Heath CallahanAug 19

Policy →

The FTC Has Policed 13 AI Cases. None Target Agent Behavior.

◆ Priya NairAug 22

Three States Banned Agent Pricing Without Naming Agents

◆ Priya NairAug 22

Colorado Is Writing AI Transparency Rules. The FTC Says Federal Law May Override Them.

◆ Priya NairAug 22