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EMV Agentic Payments: Framework for Specifications centers on Intent Services, a shared interoperable layer where payment participants register, reference, retrieve and manage consumer-authorised intent before, during and after a transaction. It targets scenarios where intent persists over time, such as recurring purchases, cumulative budgets and post-transaction activity, and flags Know Your Agent and Agentic Transaction Indicators as future work. Feedback closes September 30. That's the window for anyone building agent commerce to shape the card rails rather than route around them. Finovate
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Announced September 2, the Copilot app and CLI now respect exclusion policies configured by enterprise, org and repository administrators. Until this shipped, exclusion policies were enforced in some surfaces but not the agentic app and CLI paths, meaning a policy that looked...
A 91-upvote thread put the claim to people running both plans, and the reported consensus is that the 20x applies to the 5-hour window most users rarely hit, while the weekly wall is the real bottleneck at about 2x to 2.5x the $100 plan for 4x the price. Several commenters say...
Three long-lived repos repositioned their descriptions around agent-harness language while keeping their star history: zhayujie/CowAgent (created August 2022 as chatgpt-on-wechat, now 46,430 stars and 10,306 forks as an "open-source super AI assistant and Agent Harness"), mnfs...
Sam Altman announced OpenAI's central organizing goal: a fully automated AI research intern by September 2026 running on hundreds of thousands of GPUs, escalating to a full multi-agent research lab by March 2028. Chief scientist Jakub Pachocki described it as "a whole research...
MAS published a consultation on September 1 that moves the 2023 stablecoin framework from policy into statute, creating a dedicated issuance license and reserving the "MAS-regulated stablecoin" label for issuers meeting the full regime, covering SGD or G10-pegged single-curren...
Splitting the open-issues count via the GitHub search API gives a 1:2.8 ratio where most trending agent repos this week run PR-heavy. Still shipping daily, v1.18.27 on September 2, pushed within the hour. For anyone evaluating it as a base, the backlog shape says user-reported...
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