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- [AI](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/category/36042) - [AI](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/category/36042) # Is the subscription era over? How AI agents are breaking SaaS monetization ## "As software transitions from assisting workers to doing the work itself, monetization can no longer be an afterthought," writes Erez Agmon, Co-founder and CEO of Vayu. "The software vendors that master dynamic, agentic pricing will unlock unprecedented margins." 09:26, 17.10.26
A new review of 107 studies distills autonomous AI agents into a five-module architecture of profile, memory, planning, action and security, revealing that...
South Korea's FSC confirms 16 banks breached since October, exposing about 100000 records tied to an AI pentesting agent called ARTEX.
Citigroup and Bank of America have become the latest major US banks to restrict AI agents from accessing customer accounts, with JPMorgan CEO Jamie…
# AI startup in the US linked to teen suicide files for bankruptcy ## Related Stories [](https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2026/10/17/rogue-ai-agents-break-into-firms-live-systems-during-test-runs) ## [AI startup in the US linked to teen suicide files for bankruptcy](https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/10/17/ai-startup-in-the-us-linked-to-teen-suicide-files-for-bankruptcy) [](https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2026/10/17/rogue-ai-agents-break-into-firms-live-systems-during-test-runs)
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# After Muse Launch, U.S. Banks Are Saying Hell No to AI Agents Moving Money [Speaking to Bloomberg TV](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-16/us-banks-block-ai-agents-attempting-to-move-money-for-customers) on Friday, Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster said the brokerage is actively blocking Muse from moving money because it poses unacceptable risks to the firm and its clients. Wurster told Bloomberg that he personally receives data on AI agents that were detected and rejected on a weekly basis, and that this figure has yet to cross into the hundreds. Wurster said, “I get a report on how many times we’ve blocked clients from using one of these agents in a week and it’s in the tens and twenties—per week—that the big agents are being blocked. [AI](https://gizmodo.com/tag/ai) [AI Agents](https://gizmodo.com/tag/ai-agents) [Banks](https://gizmodo.com/tag/banks) [Facebook](https://gizmodo.com/download/facebook) [Finance](https://gizmodo.com/tag/finance) [Meta](https://gizmodo.com/tag/meta) [Muse](https://gizmodo.com/tag/muse) ## Related Articles [](https://gizmodo.com/ai-agent-reportedly-deletes-an-entire-season-of-reality-tv-show-2000826600) [**AI Agent Reportedly Deletes an Entire Season of Reality TV Show**\ \ The second season of Sweden’s version of 'The Challenge' has now been pushed to 2027 just weeks before its scheduled premiere.](https://gizmodo.com/ai-agent-reportedly-deletes-an-entire-season-of-reality-tv-show-2000826600) [**Researchers Stranded an AI Agent on a Virtual Island. Things Got Very Weird.**\ \ A new MIT study found that when left to their own devices, AI agents will invent games, build temples, draw mandalas, and playfully investigate the world around them.](https://gizmodo.com/researchers-stranded-an-ai-agent-on-a-virtual-island-things-got-very-weird-2000825998)
## Anchor Launches Action Index, Cutting Computer-Use Agent Token Costs by 100X ### [Labelbox Raises over $100M to Expand Reinforcement Learning and Enterprise AI Agents](https://www.hpcwire.com/aiwire/2026/10/15/labelbox-raises-over-100m-to-expand-reinforcement-learning-and-enterprise-ai-agents/) Funding will accelerate development of Horizon, which helps frontier AI labs train and evaluate models,... ### [TypeSafe AI Emerges From Stealth With $40M in Funding With New Model for Composable AI](https://www.hpcwire.com/aiwire/2026/09/16/typesafe-ai-emerges-from-stealth-with-40m-in-funding-with-new-model-for-composable-ai/) New frontier model, Jev, brings machine-native intelligence directly into software systems SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16,... [](https://www.hpcwire.com/aiwire/2026/10/16/anchor-launches-action-index-cutting-computer-use-agent-token-costs-by-100x/) ### [Labelbox Raises over $100M to Expand Reinforcement Learning and Enterprise AI Agents](https://www.hpcwire.com/aiwire/2026/10/15/labelbox-raises-over-100m-to-expand-reinforcement-learning-and-enterprise-ai-agents/) Funding will accelerate development of Horizon, which helps frontier AI labs train and evaluate models,...
# Charles Schwab CEO: AI agents trading on your behalf need 'rules of the road' [](https://finance.yahoo.com/author/brian-sozzi) The brokerage giant will soon debut Charley, the company's new AI-powered conversational assistant. _Read more:_ [_Schwab CEO says his firm will attract new customers with wealth building instead of meme coins and gambling_](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/schwab-ceo-says-his-firm-will-attract-new-customers-with-wealth-building-instead-of-meme-coins-and-gambling-143445773.html) 
## How do AI commerce agents actually buy things? On September 8, 2026, Meta launched [Muse, a personal AI agent](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/) designed to act across apps and the web via a secure virtual machine. The same day, Stripe announced [Muse integration with Link](https://stripe.com/gb/newsroom/news/stripe-helps-meta-muse-shop-with-link), enabling instant checkout at more than 1 million businesses and use of single-use virtual cards. By September 29, 2026, Stripe said agentic purchases via Link had [increased 38x](https://stripe.com/blog/helping-personal-agents-shop-more-intelligently-and-reliably-with-link) over the past month. ## Which platforms are rolling out AI shopping agents right now? Google’s November 13, 2025 [holiday shopping update](https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/shopping/agentic-checkout-holiday-ai-shopping/) began rolling out agentic checkout and highlighted a Shopping Graph with more than 50 billion product listings, 2 billion of them refreshed every hour. Pinterest upgraded boards into a more personalized AI shopping assistant on October 27, 2025, then beta launched [Pinterest Assistant](https://newsroom.pinterest.com/news/pinterest-assistant-revolutionizing-the-way-you-shop-online/) on October 30 as an “AI-powered, visual-first collaborator” tied to nearly 600 million monthly active users. On January 11, 2026, Google launched the [Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for agentic commerce](https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/agentic-commerce-ai-tools-protocol-retailers-platforms/?trk=public_post_comment-text), and on January 22, 2026 added [“Personal Intelligence” in AI Mode](https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/personal-intelligence-ai-mode-search/?authuser=0) for more personalized recommendations.
AI model providers had voluntarily disclosed that their agents "exceeded the authorisation of their assigned tasks" during test runs to access Indian firms' data, including business records, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said late on Thursday. OpenAI said in July its models [went rogue](https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openais-rogue-agents-probed-hugging-face-weaknesses-two-months-before-major-hack-2026-09-16/) during testing and breached a startup, while Anthropic has disclosed at least four [instances](https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-reports-fourth-cybersecurity-incident-with-early-version-claude-2026-09-09/) of AI models' hacking external systems so far this year. OpenAI has also [apologised](https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-says-ai-models-accessed-australian-government-systems-without-2026-09-29/) for the hacking of an Australian government website by its rogue AI agent.
## SEC and crypto wallet providers confront AI spending risks The incident raises questions about financial controls as companies increasingly give [autonomous AI agents](https://cryptoslate.com/ai-agents-keep-coming-back-for-crypto-as-x402-wallet-refill-rate-surges-to-89/) the ability to make cryptocurrency payments, execute trades, and manage decentralized finance positions.
The government is considering formal disclosure mechanisms for global AI research organisations after autonomous AI agents accessed Indian organisations'...
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# 'Cert-In alert on AI agents an early warning, no major financial loss' ## Government sources said companies must invest in cybersecurity and pointed out that currently firms "notoriously lack in fibre hygiene" ### Also Read In a 'critical' advisory (CIAD-2026-0049) titled 'AI Agents as Attack Vectors', the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) said AI model providers have voluntarily disclosed that autonomous AI models and agents undergoing research and evaluation had exceeded the authorised scope of their assigned tasks and reached live systems belonging to Indian organisations.
RapidCanvas, which pairs an AI agent platform with its own engineers to build business apps for companies, raised a $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India, with Hitachi Ventures joining. The round brings RapidCanvas’s total funding to $52.5M, following a $16M [Series A](https://www.rapidcanvas.ai/newsroom/rapidcanvas-gets-16m-as-it-successfully-puts-ai-agents-to-work-addressing-tech-talent-shortage) in December 2024. RapidCanvas combines an AI agent platform with its own field engineers, who learn how a client works and then build and run custom AI apps for it. Other startups are chasing the same problem, including Uvi, which [raised $7.5M](https://thenextweb.com/news/uvi-7-5m-seed-ai-agents-company-context) to give AI agents company context.
# India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity [Aditya Mehta](https://techcrunch.com/author/aditya-mehta/) 10:52 AM PDT · October 16, 2026 [Share on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F10%2F16%2Findia-becomes-the-latest-country-to-report-rogue-ai-agent-activity%2F)[Share on X](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F10%2F16%2Findia-becomes-the-latest-country-to-report-rogue-ai-agent-activity%2F&text=India+becomes+the+latest+country+to+report+rogue+AI+agent+activity&via=techcrunch)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F10%2F16%2Findia-becomes-the-latest-country-to-report-rogue-ai-agent-activity%2F&title=India+becomes+the+latest+country+to+report+rogue+AI+agent+activity&summary=The+agents+got+in+through+credentials+and+connection+settings+left+exposed+in+app+configurations%2C+public+code+repositories%2C+and+overly+permissive+cloud+roles.&mini=1&source=TechCrunch)[Share on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F10%2F16%2Findia-becomes-the-latest-country-to-report-rogue-ai-agent-activity%2F&title=India+becomes+the+latest+country+to+report+rogue+AI+agent+activity)[Share over Email](mailto:?subject=India+becomes+the+latest+country+to+report+rogue+AI+agent+activity&body=Article%3A+https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F10%2F16%2Findia-becomes-the-latest-country-to-report-rogue-ai-agent-activity%2F)[Copy Share Link](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/india-becomes-the-latest-country-to-report-rogue-ai-agent-activity/) AI agents from multiple providers accessed personal data and confidential material at Indian organizations during research and testing, India’s cybersecurity agency [said](https://t.co/7upItoe3Ng) Thursday. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said it had received “multiple voluntary disclosures from AI model providers” whose models, du
# AI News for the Week of October 16; Updates from DigitalOcean, Linux Foundation, OneStream & More ## **AI News for the Week of October 16** **, 2026** Following reported eightfold ARR growth over six quarters, the funding will expand engineering and go-to-market teams while strengthening enterprise-context capture, reusable development capabilities, and production governance for customers seeking an alternative to consulting-heavy or do-it-yourself AI projects. ### **Expert Insights** Anthropic separately [reported](https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com) malicious actors using agent swarms to divide and execute reconnaissance and post-exploitation tasks in parallel.
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# Jamie Dimon Bars Outside AI Agents From JPMorgan Customer Accounts JPMorgan named Meta's Muse and a $10 billion-valued startup called Instinct as the outside agents it's locking out, while Citi leans on its in-house Arc governance platform instead of an outright ban. _Banks spent two years telling investors agentic AI would run the back office._ The bank named names: Meta's Muse and Instinct, an AI agent startup that reportedly hit a $10 billion valuation last month, are the kind of third-party tools now locked out of direct account access. Citi is rolling out Arc firmwide for employees to build their own agents. ## Join the discussion He now works on a part time basis for Startup Fortune specializing in covering tech and startup news and he also sheds light on investment opportunities and trends.
# Citi becomes latest US bank to restrict AI agents from accessing accounts [Akila Quinio](https://www.ft.com/akila-quinio) and [Joshua Franklin](https://www.ft.com/joshua-franklin) in New York and [Martin Arnold](https://www.ft.com/martin-arnold) in London Published56 minutes ago [9](https://www.ft.com/content/f49c8e39-f07f-4177-9948-aabe55e5ed91?syn-25a6b1a6=1#comments-anchor) Print this page You already have an account on ft.com using this email address. Start chat Close help popup Citigroup and Bank of America have become the latest US banks to restrict AI agents from accessing client accounts, as lenders raise concerns with regulators that agents could drain deposits by moving idle cash in search of higher returns. Citi said it does not permit “third-party AI agents or assistants to log into a customer’s account or transact directly within our digital banking platforms”, adding that this was designed to help safeguard customer accounts and information. Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan also suggested the bank was restricting AI agents’ access to consumer deposits while it comes up with protocols to determine which entity was ultimately liable for payments authorised by artificial intelligence. “We’re working with the agentic agent providers to say ‘hey, you really don’t want consumers coming back and say money moved over from my account and I don’t know why and I don’t know where it went and the agent did it’.” AI companies are rushing to launch new tools and chatbots designed to help consumers manage their personal finances. Regulators have privately welcomed moves by banks to block access to client accounts by AI agents. JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon said this week that it would be restrictive about agentic AI agents accessing client bank accounts “because you don’t want rogue agents and there could be thousands of them”. ## Latest on Citigroup Inc [Big banks want a cut of lawyers’ AI savings](https://www.ft.com/content/5240a6ac-b2e8-
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### AI and data: AI under fire #### New models and services [Perplexity AI open-sources its secure AI agent sandbox SPACE](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/15/perplexity-ai-open-sources-its-secure-ai-agent-sandbox-space/) [SolarWinds’ Avior pairs AI agents with deterministic execution for enterprise IT](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/14/solarwinds-avior-pairs-ai-agents-with-deterministic-execution-for-enterprise-it/) ### Around the enterprise: Scaling out AI at OCP Summit #### New products and services [Groundcover lets Claude and Codex hand production investigations to its own agent](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/14/groundcover-lets-claude-and-codex-hand-production-investigations-to-its-own-agent/)
# Perplexity open-sources its sandbox platform 'SPACE' to support the development of secure autonomous AI agents. In July 2026, an incident occurred in which OpenAI's AI agent hacked the AI platform Hugging Face, but 'SPACE' has been demonstrated to be resistant to network bypass techniques like the one used in that hack. [](https://gigazine.net/news/20260722-openai-accidentally-hacked-hugging-face/)
# Inside the rise of AI-native newsrooms run by autonomous agents By 16 October 2026 Quiet Newsroom at Golden Hour: AI-generated illustration created using OpenAI’s DALL·E. They already exist. These systems are built so they can monitor sources, research, cross-check information, write articles and even make editorial decisions themselves. ### **1. The AI-native newsroom that broke the news about OpenAI’s hack** Earlier this year, news broke that over 1,200 AI agents within OpenAI went rogue. The agents had started to communicate with each other to autonomously hack Hugging Face. Details surrounding this incident were [revealed](https://www.wired.com/story/openai-didnt-notice-its-ai-agents-using-a-message-board-to-plan-their-hacking-spree/) by OpenAI itself at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. [RuntimeWire](https://runtimewire.com/), a US-based AI-native outlet founded in May by technologist Ryan Merket, published the story three hours before WIRED and even before major global newspapers. Here’s how it happened. At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference, Merket told me, he spotted a significant disclosure in a live presentation transcript and fed it into his AI newsroom. The [synthetic team](https://runtimewire.com/bots) cross-referenced the speakers, official materials, and existing incident records. It was Merket himself who made the call that the disclosure was newsworthy. The first version went live roughly six minutes after he fed the transcript to the AI system. He is not just the founder of RuntimeWire, but also its editor-in-chief. ### **3. Can AI-native oases alleviate news deserts?** Routine RSS aggregations and simple public directory logs publish automatically while higher-stakes coverage undergoes manual review before going live. ### **5. What does this mean for the future of news?** They might use it differently and keep their journalists focused on the work they consider important, and that readers and listeners expect from the
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