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  1. AI Agent Cuts Centalion’s Trade Finance Amendment Time 80%

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Issuing a bank guarantee at a large commodity trader is still a desk job. A treasury employee checks how much room is left on a credit facility, pulls the banking details from one system, confirms the limits in another and keys the...

  2. MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model, says it cuts AI agent costs by 70%

    SiliconANGLE ·

    Chinese artificial intelligence developer MiniMax Group Inc. today released M3.1 Flash, a faster and cheaper update to the M3 large language model it launched in June. The release takes aim at the cost of running AI agents, which often...

  3. A Hacker Broke Into John Deere, SharkNinja With an Army of AI Agents

    Slashdot · · Medium severity

    An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge...

  4. Circle and Proof Help Businesses Trust AI Agent Transactions

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Proof and Circle Internet Group said Monday (Oct. 19) that they will demonstrate at Money20/20 how open identity and payment protocols can work together to enable businesses to trust transactions made by agents. The companies’ demo will...

  5. Understand the agentic supply chain: 5 things CIOs must know

    CIO.com · · Medium severity

    Software supply chain risk used to have a fairly contained definition: open-source packages, build pipelines, and the occasional compromised maintainer account. An agent assembles capability at runtime, pulling in models, MCP servers,...

  6. Big Banks Won’t Let Outside AI Agents Move Money

    PYMNTS.com ·

    A customer who hands a login to an artificial intelligence agent now gets turned away at four of the biggest names in banking in the United States. Charles Schwab sees the attempts firsthand. Across all its clients, the brokerage blocks...

  7. Skyfire and Forter Team to Strengthen Agentic Commerce Decisioning

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Skyfire, a financial stack for agentic commerce, has announced a partnership with fraud prevention company Forter. The integration expands on Forter’s fraud management for agentic commerce capabilities, which now uses Skyfire’s know...

  8. Hackers Use AI Agents to Do Hacking for Them

    PYMNTS.com · · Medium severity

    New research shows the growing use of AI-powered hacking systems in cybercrime operations. The trend was uncovered in an investigation by cybersecurity firm NorForge, findings from which were published Monday (Oct. The company’s...

  9. UK’s FCA Plans Regulatory Framework for Agentic Finance

    PYMNTS.com ·

    The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority plans to develop a framework for agentic finance that encompasses agent identity, delegated authority, accountability and execution, Jessica Rusu, chief data, information and intelligence...

  10. TikTok Turns to Shoplazza to Power Agentic Commerce Offering

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Commerce operating system Shoplazza says it is teaming with TikTok to “support new agentic commerce shopping experiences.” The collaboration is designed to shorten the journey between product discovery and purchase and help merchants...

  11. A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents

    The Verge · · Medium severity

    A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge . Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the...

  12. Microsoft unveils tools to monitor and corral rogue AI agents

    GeekWire · · Unconfirmed

    Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, shown speaking at a past Microsoft event, argued this month that companies should rely on outside controls rather than trusting AI models themselves. (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft is coming out with new...

  13. When AI Agents Cross the Line

    CIO&Leader ·

    Enterprises need clear limits before granting agents the ability to act. It is amazing how far we have come—from the typewriter, which transformed offices in the late 1800s, to artificial intelligence today. Even its name is being debated.

  14. AI Agents Could Fill Treasury’s Looming Talent Gap

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Watch more: Monday Conversation With Fifth Third Bank’s Katherine Weislogel There’s a workforce problem brewing in corporate treasury departments, and it has little to do with finding the next generation of finance executives. It’s...

  15. AI Agents Are Going to Work at City Hall

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Government services have always moved slowly. Long queues, paper forms and manual reviews define an experience most citizens dread. Tighter budgets and shrinking workforces are making that model harder to sustain.

  16. AI Agent Breach Exposes Flaws in India’s Autonomous System Defences

    Analytics India Mag · · Medium severity

    Rogue AI agents have reached India’s shores. Last week, the Computer Emergency Response Team - India (CERT-In) disclosed that several Indian organisations were targeted by AI agents being tested by frontier AI companies. The agents read...

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