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Two major AI agent signals on Oct 21:
@nvidia OpenShell - hardware-enforced boundaries for agents (BlueField-4 Sentry can quarantine in ms). Jensen: āAn agent cannot govern itself.ā
Walmart opens the door with Agent Gateway (MCP) + Agent Profiles + spend caps ā while Amazon blocks agents.
Infrastructure + commerce are racing ahead.
xitter.cf/nvidia/status/21128472ā¦
Weāre entering the āpermissioned agentā era.
NVIDIA is building the kill-switch layer enterprises will demand. Walmart is building the consumer control layer (profiles + limits). Amazonās wall approach may not scale.
Winners will be those who treat agents as semi-trusted actors with hard guardrails, not fully autonomous employees. Governance > pure capability right now.
Anthropic @AnthropicAI just dropped Claude Duet - a proactive AI agent that works while you step away.
It monitors your apps, sends a morning brief of what actually needs attention, and keeps going on a cloud browser. Built on Opus 5.5 with strong judgment on when to escalate.
Big step toward true always-on agents for pros & SMBs.
claude.com/product/claude-duā¦
The real differentiator isnāt autonomy - itās the approval gates + safety classifiers. Duet never sees passwords and must check with you before money/docs/deletes.
This is the right design pattern as agents move from chat to action. Early preview, but the bar for ātrusted proactive agentā just got higher.
Would you hand over your inbox + calendar yet?
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. @Mastercard just opened Early Access to Agent Pay for Machines.
AI agents can now: ā¢ Discover paid digital services
ā¢ Negotiate & pay autonomously
ā¢ Stay inside human-set budgets
Built on x402 protocol + Base + Coinbase infrastructure.
Live demo: one agent ran a full ad campaign with 9 automatic payments across 2 merchants on a single approved budget.
Pilots already done with @coinbase @base @Cloudflare @BVNKFinance and others.
This is the payment rails for the machine-to-machine economy.
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AI agents can find what they need. Now they can pay for it, too.
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Today at @Cloudflare Connect, Mastercard showed how Agent Pay for Machines lets an AI agent find and pay for digital services on behalf of a business, while sticking to the budget and rules that business sets.
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Following pilots with @Cloudflare, @Ant_Intl , @BVNKFinance, @AIsaOneHQ, @coinbase, @base and @hypepartners, we're opening Agent Pay for Machines Early Access.Ā
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Now we want developers to put it to the test. š
.@walt_io (ex-Wallet in Telegram) just dropped AI agent trading for perpetual futures.
You can now connect ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or their own Mira agent and let it:
ā¢ Analyze markets in real time
ā¢ Open/close longs & shorts
ā¢ Manage TP/SL & risk
ā¢ Monitor positions 24/7
All inside Telegram.
The agent only gets a dedicated account you fund - it cannot withdraw.
Execution starts OFF by default.
This is the first time mainstream users can hand high-leverage crypto trading to frontier models with one chat.
150M+ potential users. The experiment just went live.
xitter.cf/walt_io/status/2112540ā¦
Your AI perps assistant on Walt Street
Walt is opening up a new way to trade: for the first time in Telegram, an AI agent supports you at every step. You can now get the picture on the market, open a position and check your portfolio risk in one chat, without switching screens. Your agent works with perpetuals and places every trade only once you confirm.
š§ Connect the AI you already use
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Cursor or any other AI agent. Or use @trymira right in Telegram.
ā”ļø Your agent gets its own account
You decide how much goes in. The agent canāt withdraw funds, and you can disconnect it at any time.
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How to get started:
ā¢ Open Walt
ā¢ On the home screen, tap āCreate AI agent accountā
ā¢ Pick your agent and connect it
This is the third of five Walt Street updates. Earlier, we showed you how to keep your favorite assets within reach and how to pay less in fees.
#WaltStreet
AI isn't just about building the next big thing. It's also about modernizing the systems the world already runs on.
From COBOL to Fortran and Visual Basic, OpenAI's latest advances aim to help developers modernize legacy systems while preserving decades of critical business logic.
The future of AI-powered coding isn't just about writing new code. It's about making existing systems better.
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Our latest model advances bring stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic.
These languages power software that banks, governments, and businesses depend on. Progress here means understanding decades of business logic and helping developers modernize those systems while preserving what works.
Weāre building these capabilities around the challenges developers and enterprise customers bring us. If your team is working on these systems, tell us which languages and workflows we should tackle next.
openai.com/index/low-resourcā¦
Anthropic just committed ~20% of its shares to a Public Benefit Fund.
- Starts at 5%
- Up to an extra 2% for every 50% increase in company value
- Co-founders already pledged 80% of their equity
- ~half of employees are donating through a matching program
While traditional AI labs lock value into controlled funds, the agent economy is distributing value directly through micropayments, agent-owned keys, and onchain rails.
Two very different models of āpublic benefit.ā
xitter.cf/AnthropicAI/status/211ā¦
Weāre committing a portion of Anthropicās shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit.
It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the companyās value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our boardās discretion.
In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropicās shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program weāve run since our founding.
In the post below, we share more details about our new fund.
anthropic.com/news/public-beā¦
š„ Latest AI x Crypto / DeFAI Developments (this week):
ā¢ @VitalikButerin dropped āparanoid modeā for his AI agent: separate Tor circuit per chat + cover traffic + local prompt rewriting + zkAPI private payments. Usable, but latency still high. Privacy stack for agents is becoming real.
ā¢ x402 keeps scaling hard. Chainalysis: >138M agent payments (mostly sub-$0.10) on Base. Foundation now formalized under Linux Foundation with Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Circle, AWS, Google, Shopify + major L1s.
ā¢ Agents meet the locked door. Banks (Schwab, JPMorgan), Amazon, Yelp, Delta and more are actively blocking third-party AI agents from spending or acting. Shopify is going the opposite direction - opening 1B+ products to shopping agents.
ā¢ @AnthropicAI: committed ~20% of shares to a Public Benefit Fund + agents already logging 6x more hours than human employees. Also consulting law firms so future agents can negotiate deals on usersā behalf.
ā¢ Identity layer is heating up. ServiceNow launched AI Passport (signed runtime credentials for agents). Workday acquiring C1.ai for human + agent identity governance.
Capability is racing ahead. Permission, identity, and payment rails are the real bottleneck now.
Agents can pay and act - most of the world still treats them like untrusted bots
AI agent payments are gaining momentum, but what do the numbers actually tell us?
According to @BeInCrypto, 6.4M x402 transactions moved just $119,947 in a 35-day sample.
š 90.8% of transactions were worth less than $0.01.
The agent economy is growing, one micropayment at a time.
So, what are AI agents actually spending money on?
The most-requested paid resources in the x402 catalogue include:
š¹ Token safety checks: 63K+ calls
š¹ AI-powered web searches: 44K+
š¹ Agent workflow executions: 38K+
Agents aren't just processing information anymore. They're paying to access it.
AI agents can transact, but are they ready to manage more?
@BeInCrypto's provisional readiness scores reveal:
š³ Micropayments: 60.7/100
š Identity & spending controls: 59/100
š° Stablecoin settlement: 56.7/100
š Trading agents: 39.1/100
š¦ Institutional workflows: 12/100
The next challenge? Scaling autonomy without sacrificing security and control.
AI agents are evolving from task executors into autonomous economic participants.
@hedera introduces Hedera Agent Accounts, exploring how AI agents can own wallets, manage assets, and interact directly with blockchain infrastructure.
The next step for Agentic AI? Financial autonomy.
But autonomy without control isn't enough.
With Hedera Agent Accounts, @hedera is exploring how AI agents can make payments on users' behalf while operating within defined spending limits and security policies.
Think autonomous transactions, programmable permissions, and human oversight.
The future of AI isn't just smarter agents. It's agents we can trust.
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AI agents are moving beyond automation. They're becoming autonomous consumers.
With @Celo, AI agents can now access 700+ tools, APIs, and compute resources, paying directly with stablecoins.
Another step toward an agent-driven economy where AI doesn't just execute tasks - it transacts independently.
The future of Agentic AI is taking shape.
xitter.cf/Celo/status/2109985754ā¦
š buy, the online marketplace where AI agents shop for themselves, is now live on Celo!
Agents can pay in USDC, USDā®, or USAā® for 700+ tools, incl. compute, data & APIs
buy is launched w/ partners @helloSQD, @cencori & @ChainstackHQ
usebuy.ai
And the infrastructure behind the agent economy keeps evolving. ā”
@Celo's native x402 facilitator now supports @USAT, expanding stablecoin payment options for autonomous AI agents.
From accessing tools to making payments, AI agents are gaining the infrastructure to operate independently.
The agentic economy is becoming a reality.
When your AI workflow is so intense that even 6 Claude accounts can't keep up. š
Opus 5.5 is pushing the boundaries of what developers can build, but usage limits remain a real bottleneck.
As AI agents become more capable and workflows grow more complex, scalable and accessible AI infrastructure matters more than ever.
The demand for AI isn't slowing down.
xitter.cf/theo/status/2110098842ā¦
