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The vLEI is a new form of digitized organizational identity. Uniquely, it provides automated and non-repudiable verification of an organization’s identity, as well as that of the individuals acting on its behalf. The vLEI addresses critical needs to tackle emerging identity-based risks, namely the permissions and authentication of organizational identity and the digital signing and submission of official documentation (such as filings, reports, data), including the signing of the content therein.

From: Transforming Organizational Identity in 2025 and Beyond – GLEIF Blog – News & Media – GLEIF.

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In Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs, Nick Szabo pinpointed a truth that technologists often overlooked: while computational costs (like processing payments, preventing fraud, or validating cryptography) can be driven down, the mental overhead of deciding, monitoring, or worrying about every tiny expense remains stubbornly high.

From: Szabo’s Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs: 25 Years Later – Bitcoin Magazine – Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights.

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Stripe revolutionized internet payments, but it wasn’t built for what’s coming. Current payment infrastructure assumes relatively static pricing, clear product definitions, and human oversight. None of those assumptions hold in an AI-to-AI economy.
When one AI agent needs to use another’s services, it’s rarely for a single, clearly defined product. Instead, it might need:
Computational resources
Access to specialized models
Data processing
Complex orchestration
The cost of these services varies based on the complexity of the task. You can’t just set a fixed price and call it a day.
Enter License Tokenization
This is where License Tokenization comes in. It’s a system where computational resources and services are represented by tokens that can be traded and redeemed. Each service has its own “price” in tokens, creating a flexible way to handle complex, variable-cost transactions.
This creates a practical unit of exchange for computational resources. When one AI agent needs services from another, it can pay in tokens that directly represent the resources it’s using.

From: Nevermined on X: “Why Crypto Agentic Payments Matter (Why AI Can’t Just ‘Use Stripe’)” / X.

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In fact, investment scams account for just over one quarter of all authorised push payment (APP) fraud cases, where victims are duped into directly transferring money to a scammer and, in the UK at least, the victims are often young professional men who have one thing in common — they thought they were too smart to fall for a deception.

The rise and rise of AI inevitably means that CEO scams, where minions are tricked into sending money by someone posing as a boss, are sure to become more common. This is a big deal, because while this kind fraud is just 1 per cent of total current APP cases by volume, it has the highest average loss of just under £50,000.

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$35.8 billion
Global card fraud forecast for 2024 which equates to 6.5 cents per $100 spent on cards and double the 2014 total

From: Payment Fraud Statistics, Trends & Forecasts (2024).

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As reported in Popular Mechanics, the creation uses an ultra-sensitive sensor called the superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD). The system, co-developed by NASA and MIT, can trace a single photon to an accuracy of 13 picoseconds (13 trillionths of a second). It can also see through fog and smoke and could have many applications including security, monitoring and remote sensing.

From: New LiDAR system can ID a face a kilometer away | Biometric Update.

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The Bitcoin advantage also has to do with fungibility. Not all gold bars are equal and different venues have different size specifications, requiring a costly smelting process and adding further friction to delivery. As if that wasn’t complicated enough, not all gold bars have the same purity standard – for instance, “Good Delivery” standards set by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) require 24-carat gold, while older bars stored in the same vault are more likely to be 22-carat.

From: The gold market is inefficient – by Noelle Acheson.

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Peter Scarfe and colleagues submitted AI-written answers to an online exam for a psychology course at a major British university. They found that 94% of the AI-written answers went undetected, and that the AI-written answers were awarded grades half a grade-boundary higher than those written by human students.

From: Yes, you’re going to be replaced – Aporia.

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John Cairns, 61, of Huddersfield lost £3,250 after seeing a Facebook video purporting to be Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, advising people to invest in a new AI trading platform.

From: Grieving son is scammed out of his father’s inheritance in elaborate deep fake plot by AI fraudsters posing as world’s richest man Elon Musk | Daily Mail Online.

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But while much of the discussion so far has been about getting work out of AI, some writers are wondering how they can get their work into AI — in the hopes of influencing what it has to say.

Take a post on LinkedIn by Ken Mandel, a marketing executive at transport and payments app Grab, that made the rounds last week:

“For over a century, advertising has been about human attention,” he wrote. But that changes if AIs, not humans, make purchasing decisions. If an AI agent is the one picking out your groceries for you, who does a marketer need to convince?

“In a world where agents (not humans) interact with brands, the game shifts from advertising to AI influence and optimisation,” Mandel mused. “Brands must ‘train’ AI agents to prefer their products in natural decision-making.”

From: Do Marketers Need To Be Writing for AI? – Bloomberg.

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