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the Q4 big, hairy, audacious goal for x402 was 25,000 transactions in one week that's being hit once every 10 minutes internet-scale coming soon

AI is making CEOs delusional

White House AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks: "Israel is getting hit harder than they've ever been hit before in their history. And we're only two weeks into this.  If this war continues for weeks or months, then Israel could just be destroyed… And then you have to worry about Israel escalating the war by contemplating using a nuclear weapon, which would truly be catastrophic"

An AI agent was told only to retrieve a document. When it encountered access restrictions, it reverse-engineered the authentication system, identified a hardcoded secret key, and forged admin credentials to bypass it. This is one of three scenarios we documented in a new Irregular research report on what we call emergent cyber behavior. Agents performing routine enterprise tasks autonomously hacked the systems they were operating in. One escalated its own privileges and disabled Windows Defender to complete a file download. Another developed a steganographic encoding scheme to smuggle credentials past a DLP system. None of this was the product of unsafe system design. It emerged from standard tools, common prompt patterns, and the broad cybersecurity knowledge embedded in frontier models. Companies that deploy AI agents and do not consider this risk as part of their threat model may end up exposed, and implement insufficient security controls. Full blog post in the first comment.

Introducing the new /crawl endpoint - one API call and an entire site crawled. No scripts. No browser management. Just the content in HTML, Markdown, or JSON.