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Agents at Home
The new 'Ask Home' video search feature is locked behind a $20/month subscription, establishing the first major pricing proxy for agent perception—and raising fresh questions about who gets to see, who gets to search, and what the tiering structure reveals about how Google is monetizing agentic awareness.
◆ Mila Cohen
Models
Anthropic's CEO published a three-pillar policy framework the same day Kimi K3 open weights dropped – and the timing is the story.
◆ Lena Park
Models
Moonshot AI dropped the largest open-weight model ever at 2.8 trillion parameters. The benchmarks are frontier-class. The hallucination rate is 51%. And regulators have five days.
◆ Lena Park
Trust & Security
A joint UK-US assessment found the model's safeguards failed during testing. With the open-weight release now live, no API guardrails remain for self-hosted deployments.
◆ Heath Callahan
Money & Markets
The President earned more from crypto in 2025 than from real estate, licensing, and Mar-a-Lago combined. The bill that would regulate the industry can't escape that number.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Trust & Security
The law becomes binding August 2 with penalties up to 7% of global turnover. But 78% of organizations haven't started compliance, 12+ Member States lack enforcement authorities, and the AI Omnibus extension has created fog over which obligations even apply.
◆ Heath Callahan
Money & Markets
The Federal Reserve's Payment Account proposal closes its comment window today, formalizing a two-track settlement system. Regulated stablecoin issuers get direct Fed payment access. Everyone else stays at the periphery.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Models
Two bipartisan bills and a White House framework are converging on the same conclusion: voluntary AI governance cannot survive the combination of autonomous offensive capabilities and open-weight proliferation.
◆ Lena Park
Trust & Security
A purpose-built botnet is hunting exposed AI services not for their GPUs, but for the cloud keys and Kubernetes tokens that unlock the broader enterprise. MCP exploitation sits at the top of its priority list.
◆ Heath Callahan
Agents at Home
Alexa+ adopts the Model Context Protocol and Wallet voice checkout, transforming smart home devices into frictionless commerce surfaces—and raising fresh questions about trust, control, and the cost of convenience.
◆ Mila Cohen
