identity verification

The AP’s compact “Trending” roundup that ran on regional sites this week reads like a stitched‑together newsroom mixtape — an odd but revealing cross‑section of public affairs, corporate strategy, extreme weather and digital culture that tells us as much about how news is packaged as it does...

Mastercard’s push to define how AI agents buy things on our behalf marks a decisive turn: the payments network is not merely enabling “agentic commerce,” it is trying to set the rules that will govern who can act, how purchases are authorized, and which parties carry the risk when software — not...