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Cathie Wood: Smart Investors Should Start Watching Where AI Agents Spend Money
ARK Invest's CEO says agent-driven capital flows are becoming an observable indicator, not just a narrative, as AI agents move from information retrieval into real transactions settled in stablecoins.
Apple Tightens Mac Permission Controls, Requiring Explicit Authorization for AI Agents to Gain Full Disk Access
Apple plans to require explicit user confirmation before AI agents can access all data on a Mac, citing risks from developers misusing Full Disk Access.
White House Taps Clayton as AI Czar, Demands Tech Risk Report Within 120 Days
The White House has instructed its artificial intelligence task force to deliver an assessment of AI's technological risks and potential benefits within 120 days.
Claude Code Introduces Mods and Plugins, Allowing AI Agent Behavior to Be Rewritten
Anthropic's coding tool opens its agent behavior layer to third-party plugins, raising questions about mandate execution paths and pre-settlement screening in agentic payment flows.
NVIDIA Open-Sources Agent Security Platform: Another Piece in the Agent Security Infrastructure, from Testing to Deployment
NVIDIA has released an open-source agent security platform covering the full lifecycle from testing to deployment, extending agent security from the model layer to runtime and forming an upstream-downstream relationship with pre-settlement firewalls.
Robinhood Lets AI Agents Trade Without Per-Order Approval — and Clients Bear the Losses
Robinhood has brought AI agents into its main app, with per-order approval on by default and one-click opt-out. With over 150,000 agent accounts and more than $100 million in assets, the lines of accountability are blurring.
AI Is Slashing the Cost of Hacking, and Enterprise Software Security Can't Keep Up
As AI agents proliferate across codebases, cloud infrastructure, and financial workflows, identity management may become the real control layer for enterprise AI.
Hawley and Murphy to Introduce Bipartisan AI Liability Legislation
The bill would make AI companies legally liable for harms caused by their products, but key details remain undisclosed.
Cryptographer Matthew Green Warns: AI Agent Sandboxes May Be Insufficient to Contain Worm-Like Attacks
Survey: 53% of In-House Identity Verification Teams Report KYA-Related Incidents or Losses
A joint study by PYMNTS Intelligence and Trulioo shows that the more identity verification is handled in-house, the higher the share of organizations reporting 'Know Your Agent' (KYA) incidents or losses.
Anthropic Sales Team Says Claude-Powered Procurement Agent Doubles Conversion Rate
Anthropic's sales team reports that an AI procurement agent built on Claude doubled conversion rates in internal testing, handling thousands of simulated transactions and signaling a shift of AI agents from support roles into transaction decision-making.
Anthropic and NVIDIA Partner to Launch Open Agent Safety Platform
The two companies will open the platform's interfaces to third-party developers, with initial partners spanning payments, cloud services, and model hosting.