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GitHub staff celebrated last year when the number of “commits,” or times that users saved new code to their GitHub database, exceeded 1 billion annually for the first time, Daigle said in an interview. Since then, commits have surged to 275 million per week, and the company is on track for 14 billion commits this year. That represents a roughly 14x increase in traffic from a year prior.

From: Microsoft’s GitHub Sees Booming Traffic—and Outages—as AI Agents Flood Platform — The Information.

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The integration also signals a deliberate move away from exclusive reliance on global payment giants such as Visa and Mastercard, as Ghana develops a system that operates within its own digital and financial infrastructure while maintaining international interoperability.

From: Ghana Card Leads Africa With First Payment-Enabled National ID.

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On the other hand, the PIX approach to user data is more centralised than that of UPI, potentially allowing for quicker resolution of payment issues. PIX relies on a central database known as the Transaction Accounts Identifier Directory (DICT) to connect each user’s PIX key with their corresponding transactional account information. In contrast, UPI is decentralised, storing user data by PSPs such as wallet providers PhonePe or Google Pay (Nuclei, 2024).

From: The rise of instant payments: a cross-country comparison | Central European Management Journal | Emerald Publishing.

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The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3.gov) has released their Internet Crime Report for calendar 2025. For the first time, the report covers MORE THAN ONE MILLION received complaints. Congratulations to all of my FBI friends involved in gathering and analyzing this data. Know that I am IN YOUR FAN CLUB!

Our elders are ABSOLUTELY being targeted. Victims over the age of sixty had:
– 49.1% of money stolen from Investment Scams
– 59.4% of money stolen from Tech Suppoort Scams
– 59.6% of money stolen from Government Impersonation Scams
– 48.5% of money stolen from Extortion
– 67.9% of money stolen from Romance Scams

From: (15) Post | LinkedIn.

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Investment Fraud is skyrocketing, powered by an unregulated crypto industry and an army of human trafficked scammers working night and day to steal our money. I shared previously that the 2025 FTC Consumer Sentinel showed that Investment Scams are 4.75 of complaints and 49.8% of dollars stolen. The IC3 data is similar. 7.2% of the complaints and 41.4% of dollars stolen. This is why Intelligence for Good is so focused on hashtag#CryptoInvestmentScams!

For the first time, MOST of the money stolen was in the form of cryptocurrency. 54.4% of the money stolen was crypto – up 22% from the 2024 report.

From: (15) Post | LinkedIn.

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A world that becomes more self-sufficient in defence and energy would also
be a world that holds less USD reserves. The huge strategic importance of the
Middle East to the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency should not be
underestimated. The current conflict may be the perfect storm for the
petrodollar.

From: What Iran means for the dollar: a perfect storm for the petrodollar – Deutsche Bank Research Institute.

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As they should, the card networks are trying to carve out roles in Digital Currency. Stablecoins could erode card volumes where Mastercard has its highest margins: cross-border transactions. Cross-border is a fraction of MasterCard’s volume but a third of its revenue. Cross-border volume outgrows US domestic volume by 3 to 1. If Stablecoins take a material share of this cross-border traffic it has a bigger impact on card network revenue than on card network volume.

From: Can the card networks win in digital currency?.

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Companies are dialing up the heat on workers to adopt AI for a few reasons. First, they aren’t yet seeing returns on their AI investments, said Eric Ross, an analyst at investment research firm Cascend. “The vast majority are not getting any productivity,” he said.

From: Big Tech, Wall Street Bring AI to Performance Reviews – Business Insider.

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As rogue AI agents cause security problems and product outages even at sophisticated companies such as Meta and Amazon, major firms such as ServiceNow as well as startups are developing new AI to monitor and stop them.

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The new AI, also known as guardian AI agents, comes in the form of a cloud application and can be laborious to set up. To use a guardian AI app, customers need to connect it to other AI agents they use—including ones developed with OpenClaw, Claude Code and Agentforce—using standard application programming interfaces or model context protocol servers that enable such connections or monitoring.

Customers must then tell the guardian app how the various AI agents they use should behave, given the agents’ tendency to stray from their original mission. For instance, a company might tell the guardian AI app to make sure that whenever an AI agent generates internal financial reports, it should always check Bloomberg when the reports reference stock prices.

If the report-making AI agent goes against that or another one of the company’s guidelines, the guardian agent can send an alert to employees to either stop the report-making agent or change the agent’s behavior the next time the same thing happens.

From: ‘Guardian’ Apps Aim to Stop AI Agents From Going Rogue — The Information.

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Swift has announced it is now building the infrastructure for a ledger which will facilitate interoperable 24/7 cross-border payments for banks using tokenised deposits. This marks the next stage of Swift’s blockchain-based solution which was first announced in September 2025.

Over 40 institutions, including JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America, came together to help shape the design of the ledger. The purpose was to create a blueprint which Swift states could “help banks coordinate cross-border payments more effectively as industry expectations shift toward always-on service”.

From: Swift begins building tokenised deposit ledger.

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The infrastructure is “being built on open-source foundations, using an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible architecture based on Hyperledger Besu”, the statement continues.