Mastercard has launched Agent Connect to give merchants one integration for product discovery, cart creation and customer-approved payments across AI shopping platforms. Summary Agent Connect links merchants, AI agents, digital platforms, and payment providers through one connection. Merchants can provide current product, price, and inventory data from their existing catalogs. Agent Pay uses tokenized permissions…
San Francisco’s city attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist letter telling the company to stop “allowing” paid advertisements that include AI-generated child sexual abuse content and asked it to explain how the ads repeatedly ran on its platforms. On Tuesday, WIRED reported that Meta has run more than 350 ads in recent months that…
Key Takeaways Binance is using a 1 billion-share estimate to work out the AI company Anthropic’s implied valuation. At press time, ANTHROPIC stands over $2 trillion. Anthropic warned back in May that unauthorized SPV stock transfers are void and could basically end up being worthless to investors trading or holding these assets. Binance could adjust…
“If you build a cybercrime empire, we will find you, dismantle your operation, and hold you accountable,” said US Attorney Pirro. Malone Lam, a Singaporean citizen and recent Miami resident, pleaded guilty in Washington, D.C., to taking part in an international cybercrime conspiracy that stole and laundered more than $245 million in cryptocurrency. Attorney…
Listen Labs, a market research startup that uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, recently signed a term sheet for a $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, with Menlo Ventures set to lead the round, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. But that round never closed, the people said….
Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty has urged undecided and opposing senators to hear from an estimated 67 million American crypto holders before the CLARITY Act faces a 60-vote procedural test on Sep. 15. Summary Alderoty has contacted Senate offices and asked lawmakers to speak directly with crypto holders. The Sep. 15 cloture vote requires…
Ever wonder what your camera roll would look like in 1985? There’s a ChatGPT prompt for that. The AI tool’s latest trend has social media users turning current pictures into imagined throwbacks, complete with vintage outfits, big hair and that slightly faded family-album finish. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has…
Key Takeaways Visa stablecoin settlement topped a $20B annualized run rate, with 160+ card programs live. Onchain credit cuts financing costs by up to 30% and enables 7-day card settlement. Visa-linked lenders seek to scale working capital fast enough to match stablecoin card growth. Visa Stablecoin Cards Expand to 160+ Programs Worldwide Visa’s stablecoin business…
Bitcoin last traded at $78,900, up +0.5% today (September 9), after tumbling to lows near $77,600 in the prior session, before reclaiming $79,000 and then losing that key level again. The rebound came as renewed interest in crypto exchange-traded products, particularly Grayscale’s newly launched spot Zcash ETF, helped stabilize sentiment across crypto markets. Bitcoin still…
I think it’s basically a question of timing. A lot of people are sensing that the pace of capabilities is picking up. We’re already pushing from human to superhuman in many areas, like coding, hacking, math, and I think people are aware of this. Even if there’s a lot of talk in the press about…
