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CFTC to Launch Public "Frontier Forum" Roundtables, Starting With AI and Agentic Finance
The CFTC's Innovation Task Force will launch a Frontier Forum roundtable series on financial technology, opening October 28, 2026 with a session on AI and "agentic finance.
New research says AI agents aren't really spending money online yet
A Decrypt report points to new research finding that AI agents are not yet meaningfully spending money online, cutting against a heavily marketed "agentic commerce" narrative.
Cango stock drops ~21% after $81.6M quarterly loss as miner shrinks its fleet
Bitcoin miner Cango's stock fell about 21% on September 1 after it reported an $81.6 million second-quarter net loss and roughly halved revenue while shrinking its mining fleet.
World Liberty says WorldClaw is 'independent' — and won't say what, if anything, it owns
World Liberty Financial says it neither owns nor operates Hong Kong AI reseller WorldClaw, but declined to say whether it holds equity, financing, licensing fees or revenue share in the company.
Bitcoin mining difficulty falls below year-ago levels for only the second time ever
Bitcoin's mining difficulty has dropped to 126.23 trillion, 1.1% below where it sat a year ago — only the second annual decline ever, after China's 2021 mining ban.
Ethereum Foundation: AI agents found real protocol bugs, but the triage is where the work is
Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team says coordinated AI agents found real bugs in protocol code, including a disclosed libp2p flaw, but that verifying the findings — not generating them — is now the hard part.