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Visa Mastercard Ant develop shared framework to verify AI agents
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Visa, Mastercard and Ant International are formalizing a Know-Your-Agent interoperability framework to identify and monitor AI agents across card networks and wallets while preserving each network’s own verification processes, aiming to unlock scalable agentic payments projected to reach $3–5 trillion in global commerce by 2030. The debate centers on which party captures value as agent-powered transactions shift away from traditional rails, with pilots and open standards (including Ant’s Model Context Protocol) expanding in Asia and through industry platforms to reduce duplicate identity checks and speed time-to-market.
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Tom Gallagher
The big issue is whether the card companies or the AI platforms end up keeping most of the value from these agent transactions.
Internal US Small Business Watchdog Launches Inquiry Into Duplicate Pandemic Loans
Reporting
— Jul 14, 2020
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s internal watchdog has launched an inquiry into a technical glitch that led many small businesses to receive duplicate loans through a high-profile federal coronavirus aid…
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US Pandemic Relief Program Mistakenly Paid $692 Million in Duplicate Loans: Watchdog
Reporting
— Mar 15, 2021
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) mistakenly paid out $692 million in duplicate small-business pandemic relief loans because of technical errors and other mistakes, the agency’s internal watchdog said on…
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Jon on Trump's Meme Assault on Canada & the Alternate Reality He's Constructed | The Daily Show
The Daily Show · 9M views · Sep 9, 2026
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Harvard Makes Additional Troubling Findings As It Digs Into President’s Past: Report
Reporting
— Dec 21, 2023
As allegations of plagiarism swirl around Harvard president Claudine Gay, more fuel has been added to the fire. Harvard said a review of Gay’s 1997 Ph.D. dissertation found additional examples of “duplicative language…
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Birth Tourism Is a Loophole. It Is Time To Close It.
Rich McCormick · 5 min · 13h
AOC Grilled While Supporting Autoworkers’ Strike – Someone Noticed What She’s Driving
Opinion
— Sep 26, 2023
There’s no real way to sugarcoat this, so here we go: Is New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez willfully and maliciously duplicitous? Or is she just plain dumb and forgetful? Because one of those two reasons would…
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