A Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) root zone Key Signing Key (KSK) rollover beginning Oct. 11, 2026, and completing Jan. 11, 2027, is expected to cause widespread, mysterious outages ac…
Franklin Templeton, managing nearly $1.8 trillion in assets, argues that agentic AI will run on blockchain rails, not traditional payment networks, making crypto the 'killer use case' for the technolo…
Five competing checkout and settlement standards for agentic payments are now vying to become how software spends money, most of them less than 14 months old, with no binding statute in the US, UK, EU…
Whop Inc., an e-commerce platform for digital products and services, today released a command-line interface that lets business owners and AI agents access its capabilities without coding. The CLI ena…
Fulham FC have signed Silicon Valley tech and AI firm ClickHouse, valued at $15bn, as their front-of-shirt sponsor for the new Premier League season, replacing gambling brand SBOTOP. ClickHouse, an op…
A-Comm Technologies founder and CEO Krystal Gracier opened the draft A-Comm Evidence Protocol (AEP) for public comment on July 13th, proposing a tamper-evident record for AI agent transactions that me…
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire published an 18,500-word treatise arguing that AI agents require blockchain-based 'software money' for commerce, positioning Circle's USDC stablecoin as the infrastructure fo…
A new wave of open-source AI security harnesses uses large language models to find code vulnerabilities, with tools falling into three categories: LLM-led exploitgen, LLM-skill-boosting vulnerability …
Agentcard.sh offers virtual Visa cards that let AI agents make purchases with hard spend caps and single-use lifecycle, solving the problem of agents getting stuck at checkout. The platform provides M…
The Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation on July 14, 2026, an open standards body for AI agent payments, with 40 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, Google,…
TIC Association made its Supabase RLS Security Pack purchasable by AI agents via the x402 protocol, using a single serverless function and USDC payments on Base. The product, a zip file containing a S…
YC-backed Agentcard launched a rewards program on July 17th that gives users tokens for every purchase made with an Agentcard, adding a loyalty layer to its product that lets AI agents spend money onl…
Visa has launched a new AI-powered tool designed to give banks a competitive edge against their rivals by leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance financial services. The tool aims to help banks …
The Linux Foundation has launched the x402 Foundation to oversee a new open standard for digital transactions, enabling AI agents and APIs to pay for online services directly through HTTP. The protoco…
The Linux Foundation has launched the x402 Foundation to oversee the x402 payment protocol, an open standard enabling AI agents and applications to pay for digital services directly over HTTP. Forty o…
Visa will allow AI agents to use stablecoins for micropayments, according to a discussion on The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker. The move positions Visa to facilitate machine-to-machine payments in the …
Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform, a new service enabling banks, fintech companies, and crypto firms to issue, move, and manage stablecoins within a Visa-managed environment, initially suppor…
ClickHouse's 26.6 release introduces hypothetical skip indexes, AI embedding functions, and experimental continuous queries, while a new case study shows Visa's Authorize.net team using ClickHouse Clo…
Meta used AI-powered workplace tools to penalize employees for taking medical and parental leave and then selected them for layoffs, according to a lawsuit filed by 26 current and former workers in fe…
Circle has joined the x402 Foundation as a founding member to standardize internet-native payments using USDC, embedding payments directly into web requests via the HTTP 402 status code. The foundatio…