Because the Iran and related Saudi-Ansar Allah wars are in a waiting-for-the-other-violence-shoe-to-drop, or alternatively, trash talk mode, it seemed useful to cover another hot topic: bank hair-tearing after AI agents have been depicted as running around customer accounts and doing unspecified Bad Things. As we’ll see, I have doubts as to the completeness of the official story and hope experts can weigh in.
But a brief bit more on where we seem to be on the Iran front. Multi-party noise-making with two theaters of action:
Now to the bank AI clampdown. So far, there is little beyond the initial account on Axios; Reuters has merely re-reported Axios thus far . From Axios in Scoop: Unvetted AI agents are accessing U.S. bank accounts :
Major U.S.…