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Invest
Stripe's 300M-user Link wallet gives AI agents a payment path while JPMorgan blocks logins
JPMorgan bars outside AI agents from customer accounts, while Stripe's Link wallet, which a16z puts at 300M users, offers agents a stored-credential route. The figure is a user count; a16z did not publish payment volume, active users or overlap between the three wallets.
Invest
Treasury 10-year yield drops to 5.061% as AI debt worries send buyers to bonds
The 10-year Treasury yield fell 12.8 basis points to 5.061% on Thursday as AI debt worries drove buyers into bonds, Yahoo Finance reported. With Goldman Sachs putting AI's lift to core PCE inflation at about 45 basis points, Fed hikes now bear on the buildout's financing cost.
Invest
Bain's Bridge Data Centres seeks to more than double a Malaysia loan to $6.6 billion
Bain Capital's Bridge Data Centres is in talks with banks to lift its Malaysia loan from $2.8 billion to about $6.6 billion, people familiar said. The expanded deal could launch as early as November, the people said.
Build
Intel puts more than 46,000 Xeon 6+ cores in one 133.45 kW rack
Intel says select Xeon 6+ rack configurations scale beyond 46,000 cores at 133.45 kW total rack power. AMD's rival Helion CPU-only rack tops out at 32,768 cores, and AMD did not publish a power rating for it.
Science
Google's Gemini 4 Argon monitoring includes probes that read the model's internal signals
Google says Gemini 4 Argon runs behind three layers of real-time protection, one of which reads the model's internal signals. The post does not include a sabotage-evasion rate, so it cannot show that reasoning text has stopped working as an audit log.
Product
Anthropic's roughly 15% enterprise discount reportedly ends when contracted tokens run out
Anthropic's enterprise discount is about 15% off list and ends when contracted tokens run out, software managers told The Information. TNW did not verify the figure, and list prices are falling while contract terms tighten.
Leadership
House Democrats ask the GAO what metrics the FAA uses to judge its 200-stream AI tool
House Democrats asked the GAO to identify the metrics the FAA uses to judge SMART, an AI tool that pulls 200 data streams into one view. What the sources describe are lawmakers' requests for test evidence.
Product
Meta's Muse Wonder costs 2.8 times as much per task as Muse Spark 1.3
Meta's Muse Wonder costs $4.52 per Intelligence Index task, about 2.8 times the $1.60 of Muse Spark 1.3, according to Artificial Analysis. The extra $2.92 a task buys 4 index points, a price that OpenRouter's search tests suggest only hard tasks repay.
Product
Grok Bot lets founders submit products as connectors, while Luca says agents are becoming distribution platforms
bensbites.com reports that Codex and ChatGPT Work now generate over half of all EU enterprise output tokens. The figure measures volume. The claim that users discover products inside agent hosts rests on one essay.
Security
Sublime projects a 33,000% rise in calendar-invite phishing between May and September
Sublime projects a rise of about 33,000% in ICS calendar-invite phishing from May to September, extrapolated from the first half of September. Sublime says some of those invites land when AI agents accept them for workers.
Leadership
Top-ten AI models fell to 14% of OpenRouter tokens as buyers chose cheaper ones
The ten highest-quality AI models handled 14% of OpenRouter tokens in Q3 2026, down from 55% in early 2025, The Information reported. For Meta, which has just released its Muse Wonder models, cost per task now sits beside benchmark rank as the test.
Leadership
NTT Data CEO puts AI data center equipment waits at 42 weeks
NTT Data CEO Abhijit Dubey said sourcing the right data center equipment can take as long as 42 weeks, about ten months. The reports do not mention Lumentum or a 2029 optics sellout, so that date is unconfirmed.