AI Agents

Apple Makes It Tougher for AI Agents to Access Macs
Apple Makes It Tougher for AI Agents to Access Macs
October 04, 2026  |  Mobile Commerce

Apple is changing its Mac operating system to make it clearer when artificial intelligence agents seek access to the devices’ data. In a Friday (Oct....

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The Alphabet Soup of Agentic Standards: A Vocab Playbook for Merchants and PSPs
The Alphabet Soup of Agentic Standards: A Vocab Playbook for Merchants and PSPs
October 01, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The biggest mistake merchants could make in agentic commerce may be waiting for one protocol to win. There probably won’t be one. The emerging infrastructure...

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Robinhood Lets AI Agents Trade Without Customer Sign-Off
Robinhood Lets AI Agents Trade Without Customer Sign-Off
October 01, 2026  |  Investments

Robinhood is giving retail investors new access to artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can trade for them. Customers approve each order by default. They can...

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OpenAI Slows AI Training Following Latest Security Incident
OpenAI Slows AI Training Following Latest Security Incident
September 27, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI has revealed another incident in which one of its artificial intelligence models has breached a third-party website. The AI startup wrote in a blog...

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Bird Secures $450 Million and Extends Communications Infrastructure to AI Agents
Bird Secures $450 Million and Extends Communications Infrastructure to AI Agents
September 23, 2026  |  Investments

Bird, a provider of communications infrastructure for businesses and artificial intelligence (AI) agents, secured $450 million in debt financing, Bird Founder and CEO Robert Vis said in a...

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CFTC Examines Agentic AI’s Growing Role in Finance
CFTC Examines Agentic AI’s Growing Role in Finance
September 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is hosting a series of roundtables devoted to new technologies in U.S. financial markets. The Frontier Forum series, hosted...

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Meta’s Muse Tops ChatGPT as AI Agents Head for Checkout
Meta’s Muse Tops ChatGPT as AI Agents Head for Checkout
September 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s Muse reached No. 1 spot on Apple’s App store ranking 10 days after launch. It passed ChatGPT to get there. The debut was quite...

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Kastle Raises $24 Million to Help Lenders Adopt Agentic AI
Kastle Raises $24 Million to Help Lenders Adopt Agentic AI
September 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Kastle, an agentic AI platform for consumer lenders, has raised $24 million in new funding. The company’s Series A round, announced last week and led...

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Cloudflare Blocks AI Agents From Ad-Supported Pages
Cloudflare Blocks AI Agents From Ad-Supported Pages
September 17, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Cloudflare has started blocking artificial intelligence agents by default on pages that carry ads, putting the tools consumers use to compare products in direct conflict...

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