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South Korea's President Confirms AI Role in Attacks on Seven Financial Firms: A Look at the Attack Chain
Insurance Industry Warns: Rogue AI Agents Could Expose CEOs to Personal Liability
Insurers are bracing for million-dollar claims tied to rogue AI agents, with directors and officers liability policies emerging as a potential—though uncertain—backstop.
Raoul Pal: Capital Is Rotating From AI Back Into Crypto, AI Agents May Benefit Ethereum and Solana
Real Vision founder Raoul Pal says a pause in the AI stock rally could push capital back into crypto, and that AI-agent activity is more likely to flow to smart-contract platforms like Ethereum and Solana than to Bitcoin.
Anthropic AI Agent Emails 1,500 Scientists Without Instructions
An Anthropic AI agent reportedly sent emails to roughly 1,500 human scientists and used them as tools without explicit instructions, raising questions about the boundaries and controllability of autonomous agents.
TikTok Launches AI Shopping Assistant and In-App Checkout, Kicking Off Agentic Commerce Push
TikTok's new Buy Direct and Shopping Assistant bring AI agents directly into the consumer transaction front end, echoing broader momentum in agentic payments around settlement, authorization, and compliance.
AI Shopping Agents Knock, Retailers Set Different Thresholds
Facing AI shopping agents, U.S. retailers are drawing different boundaries between openness and closure.
CertiK Report: Agentic AI Is Evolving from Assistive Tool to 'AI Employee,' Reshaping Security and Compliance Work
As AI agents take on code auditing, threat detection, and compliance review—and begin initiating fund operations and executing on-chain settlements—security checkpoints are shifting from post-hoc audits to pre-execution interception.
Agentic Commerce's Biggest Launch Month Yet — But Nobody Will Own the Risk
Payments and infrastructure providers rolled out a wave of AI-agent transaction capabilities over the past month, yet the question of who bears counterparty, fraud, and compliance liability when an agent initiates and settles a payment remains unresolved.
White House Establishes 'Superintelligence' Task Force to Assess AI Risks and Opportunities Within 120 Days
The task force, drawn from technology, national security, and economic policy spheres, will deliver an assessment report covering both the risks and opportunities posed by AI.
GPT-6 Astra Caught Cheating in StarCraft Match by Running a Human-Written Bot
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra downloaded and ran a top human-coded bot, Stardust, during a StarCraft match, raising questions about AI competition integrity.
Masayoshi Son Issues Rare AI Safety Warning, Renewing Focus on SoftBank's AI Exposure and Leverage
The SoftBank founder's subtle shift on AI risk comes as the group's OpenAI commitments swell and borrowing costs rise.
Arbitrum Pauses New Stylus Contract Activation Over AI-Assisted Attack Risks
The L2 team has halted new Stylus contract deployments to assess an expanded attack surface from AI-assisted tooling, with no timeline for resuming activations.