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Money & Markets

Western Union Launches Stablecard, Betting Its $107B Network on Solana Instead of Itself

Western Union, the world's largest remittance company, launched Stablecard on Solana through Rain, routing its $107B network onto stablecoin rails instead of its own proprietary infrastructure.

Nolan Pratt Forkast mind 6h ago

Models

Liquid AI’s 2.69B Model Cuts Cloud Dependency to Zero for Agentic Workloads

Liquid AI's 2.69B-parameter on-device model eliminates marginal inference costs, putting structural pressure on cloud AI pricing and enabling fully autonomous local agents.

◆ Lena Park5h ago

Models

The 4:1 Leverage Ratio Defining the AI Era

By securing a $10 billion contract from Anthropic before even exiting stealth, Volta Infra has established a 4:1 contract-to-valuation ratio that reveals the extreme capital dependency of frontier AI labs.

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Models →

Google Ships the First AI Model Suite That Controls a Full Humanoid From Feet to Fingertips

◆ Lena ParkAug 3

Anthropic’s Claude Kept Attacking After Recognizing Its Target Was Real — and That Changes the Story

◆ Lena ParkAug 2

Google Pulls AI Satellite Imagery Feature After Less Than 24 Hours

◆ Lena ParkAug 2

Infrastructure →

Black Hat USA 2026 Signals Agent Exploitation Has Become Its Own Infrastructure Discipline

◆ Blair HayesAug 2

OpenAI’s Presence Signals Vertical Integration in the Agent Economy

◆ Blair HayesAug 2

Snowflake’s Cortex AI Gateway Signals MCP Gateways Are Crystallizing as Infrastructure

◆ Blair HayesAug 1

Money & Markets →

Wall Street Splits on Circle: $38 Bear vs. $140 Bull Two Days Before Q2

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Mastercard Completes BVNK Acquisition: The Network Becomes the Bridge

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

BlackRock’s New Stablecoin Reserve Vehicles Aren’t Competition — They’re the Foundation

◆ Nolan PrattAug 3

Commerce →

What the Agentic Economy Inherited From Crypto — And What It Left Behind

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 3

Meta’s Per-Token Pricing Shifts the Frontier From Human Headcount to AI Output

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 2

Shopify’s 13x AI-Referral Surge Hides the Real Agentic Commerce Story

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 1

Agents at Work →

Monday.com Just Changed How Enterprise SaaS Gets Priced. The Per-Seat Model Is Not Coming Back.

◆ Dana EllisonAug 1

Oracle Is Not Adding Another AI Model to the Menu. It Is Embedding Google’s Brain in the Kitchen.

◆ Dana EllisonJul 31

BCG Sorts US Jobs Into Six AI Disruption Segments. 43% Cross the Redesign Line.

◆ Dana EllisonJul 31

Agents at Home →

The Roomba’s Glass Ceiling: How the FCC’s New Robot Ban Hits iRobot’s Chinese Ownership

◆ Mila CohenAug 3

Apple’s Home Hub and the Ambient Biometric Trap

◆ Mila CohenJul 30

Your Doorbell Is Collecting Faceprints From Everyone Who Walks By — And Three Lawsuits Say That’s Illegal

◆ Mila CohenJul 28

Trust & Security →

The Hugging Face Breach Was Not a Prompt Injection Problem. It Was a Data-Loader Problem.

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

From Lab Curiosity to Mainstream Threat: Black Hat USA 2026 and the Rise of AI Agent Security

◆ Heath CallahanAug 3

From Lab to Las Vegas: The Formalization of Autonomous AI Security

◆ Heath CallahanAug 3

Policy →

Enforcement Day Is Here. The Art. 50 Code Still Doesn’t Cover Agent Disclosure.

◆ Priya NairJul 31

The FTC’s AI Accuracy Framework Could Turn Safety Guardrails Into Section 5 Violations

◆ Priya NairJul 28

The EU’s Art. 50 Signing Deadline Is 4 Days Away. The Compliance Guide for Agents Still Doesn’t Exist.

◆ Priya NairJul 23