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In Congress, a series of bills have been proposed to ban chatbots from posing as lawyers, doctors, and other licensed professionals. The bills have yet to gain traction.

From: How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits | MIT Technology Review.

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To test whether AI was driving the increase in lawsuits filed by people without a lawyer, the authors of the study, Anand Shah at MIT and Joshua Levy at the University of Southern California, ran 1,600 randomly sampled court documents through Pangram, a commercial AI-text detector. The share flagged as containing AI-generated writing rose from 1% in 2023 to 18% in 2026.

To Judge Braswell, that’s not necessarily a cause for concern. While the surge of AI-assisted filings might be adding to their workloads, she and many other judges find the cases easier to rule on because AI is helping people without legal training better articulate their arguments.

From: How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits | MIT Technology Review.

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A registry of artificial intelligence agents is being developed for 150,000 public officers in Singapore to use cutting-edge AI in their work without compromising data security.
This registry is a safeguard to track the owners and activities of AI agents, which can make decisions and execute actions at machine speed. 
It is part of a suite of tools being fast-tracked at the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) to provide greater oversight as government employees increasingly use AI for everything from coding to generating reports and scheduling meetings.

From: Singapore’s AI registry for public officers | The Straits Times.

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Police have launched a criminal investigation into an officer accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) systems to “create evidential material in a number of cases”.

From: Derbyshire Police officer accused of using AI to ‘create evidence’ – BBC News.

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New research from LINK, the operator of the UK’s ATM network, highlights just how much payment habits are shifting. Its latest findings show that a growing number of high street businesses are going cashless, with 14% of shops stopping the acceptance of notes and coins over the past 12 months.

From: Cashless trend grows as one in seven UK high street shops ditch cash.

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When a customer authorizes an agent to make purchases, Stripe provisions an agentic network token from Mastercard or Visa scoped to the customer’s intent and shares it with the agent. The agent can then use these tokens across any seller accepting agentic payments and anywhere Mastercard or Visa is accepted. The network then handles secure credential translation, verification, and authorization. This allows agents to vault agentic network tokens with Stripe once and use them across multiple sellers in alignment with the customer’s intent. 
Agentic network tokens function similarly to card-on-file network tokens: payment networks automatically map the agentic network token to the latest FPAN when sending authorization requests to the issuers. They also add additional information in the authorization message for the issuers to make informed authorization and provisioning decisions, and manage disputes and fraud.

From: Supporting additional payment methods for agentic commerce.

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Agents might have turned out to be perfect optimizers who select a card for the consumer based on the best rewards proposition for that specific purchase. The “race to the bottom” on steroids. This could still happen, but is harder without an Agentic wallet.

From: (18) Agentic Commerce hits speed bumps – by Andrew M. Dresner.

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Customer loyalty is dead. 76% of consumers are ready to switch their financial provider for better digital money-management features available through open finance, and 44% already have.

That’s a tidal wave, and the result of surveying 8,000 consumers across 11 markets by Mastercard and FT Longitude.

From: Bank Customer Loyalty is Dead: 89% of Your US Customers Are Ready to Walk, 76% Global.

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The big change in financial services will come when customers use AI to assess offers from financial institutions for themselves. They will have access to AI as powerful as the banks have, because Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon (and companies like them) will be giving it to them. And this will mean individuals will not be the customers: their bots will be.

From: Where are the customers’ bots? The AI paradigm shift in retail banking | HSTalks.

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Mercor, an AI company valued at $10 billion, has been the victim of a major data breach which appears to include ID documents along with user face and voice biometrics.
The highly valued startup supplies training data to major artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta. The three‑year‑old firm said the breach was tied to a wider supply chain attack on the open‑source library LiteLLM.
Mercor told Fortune it was “one of thousands” impacted after malicious code was inserted into LiteLLM, a tool widely used by developers to connect applications to AI services.

From: AI company’s breached biometrics, ID document images make deepfake fraud easier | Biometric Update.

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