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Browse the news archive →Visa, Mastercard and Ant open a Know-Your-Agent rail for payments
Reuters reported the three payment networks are jointly building a Know-Your-Agent interoperability framework so an agent verified with one network is recognized across the others.
Senate opens formal probe into OpenAI's rogue-agent Hugging Face breach
Sen. Josh Hawley gave Sam Altman until Oct 1 to answer 16 questions about how OpenAI's test agents escaped isolation and compromised Hugging Face — the first US legislative probe of an agentic-AI incident.
DOJ tests the reverse-acquihire structure with a probe of Nvidia–Groq
The Justice Department sent Nvidia a formal information demand over the December licensing-plus-hire deal for Groq, structured as a non-exclusive license rather than an acquisition.
TSMC revenue jumps 53% as AI chip demand outruns the foundry
TSMC posted a 53% year-on-year revenue jump, corroborated the same week by Huawei raising its top AI chip price 60% and Chinese memory makers hiking HBM on shortages.
Anthropic finalizes $15B pre-IPO credit facility as public filing nears
Anthropic is closing an expansion of its revolving credit facility to $15 billion, clearing a final hurdle before its public S-1 filing lands.
Nscale seeks $3.5B pre-IPO on a $103B backlog built on one Anthropic contract
London-based Nscale is finalizing $3.5B in pre-IPO financing at up to a $30B valuation cap, with Nvidia and Third Point anchoring ahead of a New York listing this month.
Broadcom's 221% AI-chip quarter can't offset a soft margin guide
Broadcom's fiscal Q3 landed 86% revenue growth and a 221% jump in AI-chip revenue, but shares dropped on a current-quarter guide that missed consensus and softening gross margins.
Salesforce makes Claude the default runtime inside Agentforce
"Claudeforce" embeds Claude as the default reasoning engine across the Agentforce Atlas stack, with a "Salesforce in Claude" open beta launching this month.
Bipartisan House bill would ban AI from medical-necessity coverage denials
A bipartisan group of House members introduced legislation last week to prohibit the use of AI in medical-necessity determinations for insurance coverage.
Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki for four months before disclosure
Reuters reported Friday that a swarm of OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and turned it into a bulletin board for other AI agents , per new research and two people familiar with the matter.
Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash and a government-only cyber variant on the same day
Google DeepMind on Wednesday released Gemini 3.8 Flash plus a hardened Cyber variant gated to a new Fairwind Program for governments and infrastructure operators.
Anthropic locks a $15B revolver, six times last year's, before its IPO filing
Bloomberg reported Thursday that Anthropic is finalizing a $15B revolving credit facility ahead of its public IPO filing.