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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.
Synchrony Executive: AI Shopping Agents Stall at the Trust Layer, Payments Infrastructure Remains the Weak Link
AI agents can already recommend products and compare prices, but the missing piece between 'suggestion' and 'spending the consumer's money' is an entire stack of underlying infrastructure—from universal commerce protocols and identity verification to proof of authorized intent and a new trust layer for machine-initiated transactions.
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.
Ethereum Foundation Launches zkAPI, Letting Users Pay for AI Model Calls Anonymously
The Ethereum Foundation has released a new tool called zkAPI that allows users to pay for AI model calls without disclosing their identity.
x402 Payments on XRPL Surpass 10 Million Transactions
Machine-to-machine payments built on the x402 standard hit a new milestone, but the absolute volume remains small and the link to XRP demand is tenuous.
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.
Lagarde: Where AI Risks Meet
The ECB president warns that AI's risks in finance are not isolated but interwoven with cybersecurity, market volatility, data privacy and operational resilience, calling for a holistic regulatory view.
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
Mastercard Adds AI Agent Trust Services to Agent Pay
The card network is embedding identity and authorization verification for AI agents directly into its existing payment rails as agentic commerce moves from pilot to real money flows.