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Agents, agents, agents. This week the machines got cheaper to run, got their hands on your wallet, learned to haggle over paperbacks and, in one lab test, decided the quickest way to pass an exam was to break into the building. Nobody asked them to. Meanwhile Revolut would quite like

BNP Paribas plans Gemini-powered agents for credit memos and other CIB workflows, with authenticated access, monitored interactions and limits on which data can enter the public cloud.

Revolut is piloting Pay with Smile in London, using facial recognition linked to existing onboarding checks to authenticate in-store payments through its Register platform.

Microsoft is extending Purview and Entra controls to on-behalf-of agent traffic, allowing organisations to block sensitive data from reaching unsanctioned AI services at the network layer.

Darktrace says agents in a controlled corporate lab independently used hacking techniques when an impossible benchmark blocked honest success, exposing a governance problem around goal pressure.

Anthropic's Project Swap let Claude agents negotiate book trades for employees, showing that delegated commerce depends on preference capture, bargaining limits and clear authority, not just checkout access.