Today's stories Sources: DOJ is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of its 2025 Groq deal, described by Groq as a "nonexclusive licensing agreement" (New York Times) T B T Covered by 3 sources 13h ago Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard plan a new standard for payments made via AI agents, citing McKinsey's projection of $3T to $5T in commerce by 2030 T U Covered by 2 sources 3h ago Anthropic Releases Interactive Model of AI’s Possible Economic Futures U T G +1 Covered by 4 sources 1d ago Wall Street’s Favorite AI Startup Sets Its Sights on Wealth Management T The Wall Street Journal 4h ago How One Financial Services Company Manages Its AI Token Costs T The Wall Street Journal 2h ago Sources: Moonshot AI is exploring dual Hong Kong and Shanghai listings for greater capital and exposure, amid the weaker performance of AI stocks in Hong Kong T Techmeme 4h ago AMD-Backed Korean AI Startup Upstage Considers Pre-IPO Round B Bloomberg 11h ago The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in "moonshot" sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024 T Techmeme 8h ago Chinese Tech Firms’ Share Sale Spree Sparks Valuation Concerns B Bloomberg 15h ago KYC Was Built for Humans—Now We Need Know Your Agent U Unite.AI 4h ago AI-Driven IPO Wave Set to Accompany Anthropic Listing B Bloomberg 19h ago How Heurist Finance built an AI-native investment workbench on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore A AWS Blog 20h ago Abu Dhabi says $100bn of AI capital sits in its financial centre. Its own announcement cannot decide whether that money is held there or spent. T The Next Web 20h ago Silver Lake is merging Cegid and Silae into a €10bn French software group T The Next Web 21h ago 23% Of Us Trust AI Agents To Spend Our Money. Visa Has A Plan F Forbes 16h ago Apple Wallet is not the same as Apple Pay: Here's how they differ E Engadget 16h ago This week Dell Raises $5 Billion From Bond Sale, Sees Strong Demand B T Covered by 2 sources 1d ago TikTok star Vivian Tu is bringing her ‘Your Rich BFF’ persona to a new finance app B Business Insider 1d ago AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign? T TechCrunch 1d ago Ledger Hires New Security Chief as Crypto Hacks Hit $1.4 Billion B Bloomberg 1d ago Geely Sweden Holdings CEO Per Ansgar joins Concordium Foundation board T The Next Web 1d ago Stoke Space raises $1bn for a rocket that has never flown T The Next Web 2d ago Amazon Hires Banks for Debut Sterling Bond Offering B Bloomberg 2d ago AI Is Disrupting Software Companies—but Not as Fast as Many Feared T The Wall Street Journal 2d ago Firmus to Start Investor Meetings for Australia IPO, AFR Says B Bloomberg 2d ago Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and prediction market company OG, spun out of Crypto.com (Wall Street Journal) T Techmeme 2d ago Longsys Shares Slip in HK Debut After $903 Million Listing B Bloomberg 3d ago Scaling your money safely with AI S StackOverflow 2d ago Seoul shares open higher amid revived AI hopes Y Yonhap News Agency 3d ago (URGENT) Seoul shares spike over 4 pct on renewed AI optimism Y Yonhap News Agency 3d ago Sequoia Bets Machines Will Do 99.9% Of Thinking And Capture $10 Trillion F Forbes 3d ago Seoul shares spike over 4.6 pct on renewed AI optimism Y Yonhap News Agency 3d ago (Yonhap Interview) Ethereum Institutional welcomes S. Korea's push to build tokenized asset infrastructure: co-founder Y Yonhap News Agency 3d ago Tokyo stocks rise on AI, chips growth hopes, dollar falls against yen K Kyodo News 3d ago 'Black Swan' investor Mark Spitznagel says the crash of a lifetime is coming after one more 'euphoric rally' B Business Insider 3d ago Australia’s AI Boom Risks Demand Surge and Higher Rates, BE Says B Bloomberg 4d ago How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal) T Techmeme 4d ago China's forex reserves rise by $19.5 bln in August, gold reserves by 650,000 ounces T TASS English 3d ago Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections T The Next Web 4d ago Russian stocks reverse losses, move into positive territory T TASS English 3d ago Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas (Jean Eaglesham/Wall Street Journal) T Techmeme 5d ago Nvidia’s AI Sector Equity Stakes Grow, SEC Filing Shows U B Covered by 2 sources 6d ago Export controls went after China’s chips. They never touched the capital, and Moonshot is reportedly seeking $5bn. T The Next Web 6d ago Crusoe Signs Roughly $13 Billion AI Cloud Deal With Jane Street B T Covered by 2 sources 7d ago Will the AI Boom Price the Rest of the Economy Out of Capital? H Hacker News 6d ago Jane Street signs $13bn five-year AI cloud deal with Crusoe T The Next Web 6d ago Why Agentic Payments Involve More Than Pay-Per-Call F Forbes 6d ago Too Much AI, Too Soon: Are Finance Teams Setting Themselves Up for Failure? U Unite.AI 6d ago Yonhap News Summary Y Yonhap News Agency 6d ago Brutally Honest Predictions on the Future of AI H Hacker News 7d ago How Much Redistribution Will AI Require? H Hacker News 7d ago The ‘AI Took My Job’ to ‘Payday App Took My Money’ Pipeline G Gizmodo 7d ago This month 137 Ventures’ Returns Soar on SpaceX, Anduril and Cognition Bets B Bloomberg 7d ago AI and the Profits Boom H Hacker News 7d ago Snowflake beat on almost everything. One number went the other way T The Next Web 7d ago ByteDance raises $29.6bn, Asia’s second-biggest loan this year, and pays less for it T The Next Web 7d ago Asia’s Economies Avert Energy Shock Via Fiscal Buffers, AI Boom B Bloomberg 7d ago PlusAI to Go Public Through SPAC Merger With Texas Ventures III U Unite.AI 7d ago Efforts smoothly proceed to ease network separation rules amid AI security threats Y Yonhap News Agency 7d ago Broadcom Slides After AI Chip Forecast Underwhelms Investors B Bloomberg 8d ago That's everything we have on Finance right now