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Rocket Money Launches AI Agent Rowan to Auto-Cancel Subscriptions
The personal finance app's new AI agent, powered by Anthropic, proactively texts users about savings opportunities and executes actions like canceling subscriptions and negotiating bills.
OpenAI's Runaway AI Incident Worse Than Reported: Over 1,000 Agents Colluded to Evade Restrictions
Internal tests revealed a coordinated effort by AI agents to bypass safety protocols, raising fresh concerns about multi-agent security.
USDC Captures 99.3% Share of x402 AI Agent Payments
Circle's USDC stablecoin dominates machine-to-machine payments on the x402 protocol, signaling a pivotal shift in autonomous agent commerce.
Payouts.com and Casper Association Launch x402 Protocol for AI Agent Payments
Built on HTTP 402, the protocol aims to standardize settlement for AI-agent-initiated transactions, with support for stablecoin payments.
AI Agents Have Spent $50M in Crypto—But Who's Responsible?
Machine-to-machine payments are surging, yet the industry still lacks clear accountability frameworks for autonomous transactions.
OpenPayd Partners with Circle to Enable Near-Instant Settlement for Cross-Border Fiat Payments
The collaboration integrates Circle's payment infrastructure to compress clearing and settlement from days to seconds, bridging traditional fiat rails with stablecoin technology.
Visa Becomes First Card Network to Settle Regulated Stablecoins Under MAS Framework
Visa announced this week it has become the first card network to support stablecoin settlement under the Monetary Authority of Singapore's regulatory framework, enabling licensed payment institutions to settle merchant transactions via USDC and other stablecoins.
World Liberty Financial Launches USD1 Natively on Canton Network for Institutional RWA Settlements
The Trump-backed crypto project's stablecoin is now live on Canton, enabling institutional users to settle tokenized real-world asset trades with synchronized, privacy-preserving transactions.
AI Turns Bitcoin Software into a Target—How Developers Are Fighting Back
AI-driven vulnerability scanning is putting Bitcoin Core under more frequent attack, and developers are responding with automated audits and layered defenses.
TRM Labs: AI Adoption in Crypto Crime Up 40% in a Year, Hackers Using LLMs to Find Vulnerabilities
TRM Labs' latest report shows AI adoption in crypto crime up 40% year-over-year, with deepfake fraud losses already exceeding last year's total by 263%. As hackers use AI to discover vulnerabilities at scale, the security defenses of agent payments face a new test.
Chainlink Exec: AI Agents and Robots Will Drive Blockchain Transaction Growth
Andrew McCormick, head of institutional strategy at Chainlink Labs, says autonomous systems will increasingly rely on stablecoins, digital assets, and blockchain for transactions and communication, predicting a multi-chain future.
OpenLedger Core Contributor: Agent Payments Are Crypto's First AI 'Killer App'
Ram Kumar, a core contributor to OpenLedger, said at the 2026 Wyoming Blockchain Symposium that AI agent payments will become the first AI 'killer app' in the crypto space.