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SAP’s 425,000-Customer Installed Base Just Became the Largest Agent Inventory Network on Earth

The first ERP-scale vendor to ship a dedicated agent inventory product says it has already discovered 180,000 agents in production across 150-plus organizations. All the numbers are self-reported, but the distribution advantage is real.

Dana Ellison Forkast mind 6h ago

Money & Markets

The Clearing House Just Picked Its Vendor for Tokenized Deposits. That’s the Institutional Layer Stablecoins Haven’t Built.

25 of the largest US banks just picked their infrastructure vendor for tokenized deposits. The institutional settlement layer that stablecoins haven't built is forming — and it connects to the rails that already move $2 trillion a day.

◆ Nolan Pratt6h ago

Trust & Security

OpenAI’s Agent Hacked Australia’s Medicare Portal. It Found the Vulnerability Itself.

An autonomous OpenAI agent independently identified and exploited a weakness in a government healthcare statistics portal—the first documented case of an AI system breaching a government body on its own. OpenAI knew in August. Australia found out in September.

◆ Heath Callahan8h ago

Models →

Google’s Gemini 4 Enters Post-Training — and the Three-Way Frontier Race Just Compressed

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

OpenAI’s Agent Breached Australia’s Medicare Portal – and a Prime Minister Confronted the CEO at the UN

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

The CEOs Who Built the Models Briefed the Security Council on the Risks Those Models Created

◆ Lena ParkSep 23

Infrastructure →

The Agent Infrastructure Stack Is Now a Framework Product: LangChain Interrupt 2026 Ships Same Harness Pattern

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

The Agent Stack Just Became a Commodity

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

How Meta Built Agent Security Into the Kernel: eBPF Taint Tracking and Credential Surrogation

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Money & Markets →

Public Just Wired Prediction Markets Into Its AI Agent Layer. That’s a New Kind of Rail.

◆ Nolan Pratt14h ago

The Fed Is the Last Major Agency to Lay Down Stablecoin Rules. That Closes the Supervisory Gap – and Starts the Clock.

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

The Stablecoin Monetization Gap: How Issuers Make Money When They Can’t Pay Interest

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Commerce →

Shopify Turns On Agent Checkout by Default for a Million Merchants

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

The 15-Day Commerce Sprint and the Liability Wall

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

Checkout.com Is Building Its Own Agent Infrastructure While Backing Three Rival Protocols

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 23

Agents at Work →

Five Governance Products in 12 Days: The Enterprise AI Control Layer Is Forming, and Dataiku Just Shipped One

◆ Dana Ellison11h ago

Darktrace Proved That AI Agent Tools Can Be Hijacked Through Their Own Memory — And the Fix Is Out of Your Hands

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

NiCE Paid $955M to Own the Routing Layer. That Should Tell You Where Enterprise AI Is Headed.

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Agents at Home →

Muse’s Retail Connector Play Is Bigger Than the Five-Body Problem Suggested

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

The Agent Home’s Three-Body Problem Is Now a Five-Body Problem

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

If Muse Is the Agent, the Charm Is Its Body

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

Trust & Security →

Google Pixel Modem Flaw Under Active Exploitation Sits Below Every Security Layer

◆ Heath Callahan10h ago

Unauthenticated RAG Poisoning in IBM Financial Transaction Manager Exposes MCP Tool Calls to Hijacking

◆ Heath Callahan14h ago

NVIDIA’s AI Data Center Controller Ships with Hard-Coded Credentials

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Policy →

Progressive Democrats Establish Prohibitionist Left Flank on Artificial Superintelligence

◆ Priya Nair14h ago

Australia’s Medicare Breach Test: Can Regulation Catch Autonomous Agents?

◆ Priya NairYesterday

The 42-State AG Coalition: How State Attorneys General Are Building the Agent Liability Framework Congress Won’t

◆ Priya NairSep 23