Agent Economy
How commerce changes when machines become buyers and sellers.
Anthropic Launches Claude Cowork, AI Agents Move Further into Productivity Scenarios
Singapore Regulators Form AI Cyber Taskforce to Tackle Sophisticated Cyber Threats
Conquest Integrates Behavioral AI Agent Lydia to Assist Advisor Workflows
Wealth tech firm Conquest announces integration of Shaping Wealth's Lydia agent into its platform, offering advisors behavioral finance insights.
Fenergo Launches Fen-AI: Compliance AI Agent Orchestration Platform for Financial Institutions
Microsoft Confirms Copilot 'Super App' Coming This Year, Integrating Chat, Coding, and Agent Capabilities
CEO Satya Nadella revealed plans on the earnings call to merge Copilot chat, GitHub Copilot, and Autopilot into a single AI client, targeting consumer and business users.
Zuckerberg: Meta to Launch Personal AI Agents Soon
CEO cites breakthroughs in coding, but consumer-facing products need simplification; payment and compliance infrastructure are key
Investigation into the Gray Market for LLM Token Resale: API Key Pooling for Profit, Fraud and Abuse Coexist
Security researcher Matt Lenhard's investigation reveals that resellers aggregate API keys through abusing free credits, credit card fraud, and other means to resell LLM tokens at discounted prices, with the market particularly active in China.
Grayscale Filing Reveals Extreme Concentration in Worldcoin Tokens: 100 Wallets Hold ~90% of Circulating Supply
A SEC filing by Grayscale for a Worldcoin ETF shows that a small number of wallets control the vast majority of WLD, posing real risks for payment use cases that rely on decentralized trust.
Open USD Alliance Expands to 140 Members, Predicts $390B Stablecoin Payment Volume by 2026
Alliance says members now include issuers and payment giants, predicts cross-border settlement and B2B scenarios will drive growth, with standardization of compliance infrastructure becoming a bottleneck.
EPAA Launches AI Agent Payment Working Group in Asia Pacific, HSBC Joins as Founding Member
The Emerging Payments Association Asia (EPAA) has established an AI and Agent Payment Working Group, with HSBC as a founding member, to tackle standards for agent identity, authentication, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, and liability.
Japan Logistics Giant Plans to Settle Fees for ~2,300 Transport Partners Using JPYC
AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings aims to use the yen-pegged stablecoin JPYC to pay transport commissions to approximately 2,300 partner firms and some individual drivers, shortening settlement times, cutting transfer costs, and increasing payment frequency.
Sunrate and Mastercard Release AI Agent White Paper on B2B Global Payments
The report identifies 16 industry pain points and 13 application scenarios, covering procurement, accounts payable/receivable, payment routing, FX management, compliance screening, fraud prevention, and automated reconciliation.