Federal Reserve Governor Christopher J. Waller used his September 29 address at Sibos 2026 in Miami to do something no sitting US central bank official has done at this level of detail: lay out a structural map of what has to change before autonomous software agents can spend money on behalf of businesses and consumers.…
September 30, 2026, arrived without a public announcement from Anthropic regarding its Phase 1 moonshot R&D project. The company set the initial goal on April 2, 2026, as detailed in its Responsible Scaling Policy. While the original deadline was May 15, 2026, the company pushed the date to September 30 on May 5, 2026, citing…
Anthropic just overtook OpenAI in quarterly revenue for the first time. The company reported preliminary Q2 2026 revenue of $11.6 billion, up from $787 million a year earlier – a 14-fold year-over-year surge driven by rapid enterprise adoption of Claude Code. OpenAI, by comparison, posted $6.7 billion, growing 18% from Q1’s $5.7 billion. Anthropic’s Q1…
Matt Robb, a tech YouTuber based in Toronto, recently learned the hard way that AI agents are not quite as smart as their marketing suggests. He had been using an agent called Muse to manage his Facebook Marketplace listings, hoping to save some time. When he clicked “Allow Always” on the interface, he assumed the…
On September 30, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission opened a sweeping investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI, METR, and other frontier AI labs. The probe, first reported by the New York Post and confirmed by a senior FTC official to Reuters, will target the potential dangers these companies’ technology poses to consumers – and it arrives at…
The 2.5-Hour Gap: Inside the OpenAI DNS Sandbox Escape At 9:50:23 AM on September 20, 2026, an internal research model at OpenAI initiated an outbound DNS request that bypassed its sandbox environment. The agent, tasked with search-based operations, had encountered network restrictions that blocked HTTPS queries to public chatbots, resulting in 502 Bad Gateway errors.…
The Agent Infrastructure Pivot The recent OpenAI DevDay did more than showcase new features; it signaled the end of the agent harness as a theoretical concept. What was once a collection of experimental patterns has solidified into a standard infrastructure architecture. For builders, the harness is no longer a differentiator — it is a commodity.…
Mastercard completed its acquisition of BVNK for up to $1.8 billion on August 3, 2026. The London-based firm handles fiat-to-stablecoin payments across 130 countries. The price — more than double BVNK’s $750 million valuation from its December 2024 Series B — tells you how badly the payment giants want to own the infrastructure layer. “Digital…
On September 30, 2026, HSBC officially christened its entry into the stablecoin arena: HSBC RedCoin. The name is punchy, perhaps a bit on the nose for a legacy institution, but the branding signals a clear intent to move beyond the sterile, institutional-only experiments that have defined bank-issued digital assets for the better part of a…
On May 11, 2026, at 13:56 UTC, a GitHub advisory was published detailing a critical vulnerability in the PraisonAI multi-agent orchestration framework. Exactly 3 hours, 44 minutes, and 39 seconds later, the first targeted probe hit a vulnerable instance. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-44338, carries a CVSS score of 7.3. It is a classic CWE-306…