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Shadow Identity. AI deployment requires trusting digital identities, but enterprises cannot validate who—or what—is actually operating AI systems. When organizations cannot reliably distinguish legitimate AI agents from adversary-controlled imposters, they cannot confidently grant AI systems access to sensitive data or decision authority.
From: How 2026 Could Decide the Future of Artificial Intelligence | Council on Foreign Relations.
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Chinese intelligence services have demonstrated AI tools autonomously executing 80 to 90 percent of intrusion workflows. Meanwhile, more than 80 percent of workers in the United States use unapproved AI systems, with 40 percent doing so daily, bypassing security oversight entirely. This dual invisibility—into both adversary AI and internal AI usage—makes it impossible for organizations to trust that AI deployments will behave as intended. Security teams cannot verify what data employees feed into tools or how autonomous systems make decisions. Without observability, enterprises cannot confidently scale AI adoption, even when competitive pressures demand it.
From: How 2026 Could Decide the Future of Artificial Intelligence | Council on Foreign Relations.
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Western leaders often frame US–China competition as a zero-sum sprint to build the biggest, smartest AI models. This fixation on frontier breakthroughs misses the real determinant of power: the ability to deploy AI at scale, across the everyday machinery of the economy, earning public trust along the way. On this front, China may already be years ahead. Beijing treats AI as infrastructure.
From: America is Running the Wrong AI Race • Stimson Center.
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The more autonomously an AI system can operate, the more pressing questions of authority and accountability will become. Should AI agents be seen as “legal actors” bearing duties, or “legal persons” holding rights? In the United States, where corporations enjoy legal personhood, 2026 may be a banner year for lawsuits and legislation on exactly this point. Other societies are already approaching the debate differently—grounding AI’s status in collective frameworks, or spiritual rather than consciousness-based lenses.
From: How 2026 Could Decide the Future of Artificial Intelligence | Council on Foreign Relations.
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The prevailing implicit formula—financial health = education + literacy—is a myth. Consumers don’t want financial education—they want tools.
From: (9) The Illusion of Financial Health Programs: Mindset Matters More Than Literacy.
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The Argentinian government, under President Javier Milei, haas put forward legislation to create a dedicated legal framework for AI. This legislation includes the creation of the “non-human corporation“. That is, legal personhood for entities operated by AIs.
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The U.S. government earlier this year said it will place any bitcoin it seizes into a strategic reserve. I suppose a crypto reserve sort of makes as much sense as a gold reserve, at least until people lose interest in crypto and/or the power goes off. But there is a problem with the basic idea here: these bitcoins don’t belong to the United States. Assuming that the criminal complaints are proven, then this money is the fruit of crimes committed against millions of victims, and should be returned to them, whether in the form of bitcoin or whatever, not stashed away in Washington.
From: A record Bitcoin haul & crypto comes to the Pitcairn Islands – Coda Story.
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Uber’s approach to this problem is illustrative. They developed a Standardised A2A (Agent-to-Agent) Client on top of the A2A protocol. This client automates the Secure Token Service (STS) JSON Web Tokem ( JWT )exchange and propagation of the actor chain, ensuring the secure path is also the easiest path for developers to implement A2A calls.
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Analogous to the popular term service mesh, the AI Agent Mesh is the data plane where AI agents communicate with each other to complete tasks assigned to them. Within the Agent Mesh and for outbound calls (such as to MCP tools), AI agents rely on JWT tokens minted by the Security Token Service for authentication.
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The U.S. government earlier this year said it will place any bitcoin it seizes into a strategic reserve. I suppose a crypto reserve sort of makes as much sense as a gold reserve, at least until people lose interest in crypto and/or the power goes off. But there is a problem with the basic idea here: these bitcoins don’t belong to the United States. Assuming that the criminal complaints are proven, then this money is the fruit of crimes committed against millions of victims, and should be returned to them, whether in the form of bitcoin or whatever, not stashed away in Washington.
From: A record Bitcoin haul & crypto comes to the Pitcairn Islands – Coda Story.
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