Stu Rogers 💡

Co-founder and CEO, Spread: The Human Internet

[Jason D. Clinton 🔸 @JasonDClinton]

as bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better. security leaders, never let a crisis go to waste: please go to your boards and ask for help right now. not for ai, for the basics. (we need to hold on for ~18 months.)

[Madison Mills @MadisonMills22]

SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.

The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.

Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.

Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.

Read my latest for Axios here: https://t.co/Q3bda5In8q

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

Another day another agent.

[Claude @claudeai]

We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent.

It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.

[NSA Cyber @NSACyber]

Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.

[Sarah Perez @SarahPerezTC]

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again https://t.co/5z6kVQNXIV

[sam lessin 🏴‍☠️ @lessin]

When the cars inexplicably start "flying" with rocket boosters on stage and landing like rocket boosters ... you know you are watching the opening bid in the "spacex / tesla must merge" story.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters”

Elon: lol how about I do both

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

@alexandr_wang being the new @sherylsandberg is the best way to explain the difference between 2016 tech and 2026 tech.

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

The genius of @AriEmanuel releasing his book at a time when the tech world speaks like this. Chef’s kiss.

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

2027 will be the year of the personal agent. It has finally found PMF with Instinct, Muse & Grokbot.

This will cause a tsunami of customer enquiries — it’s now essentially free for a customer to send hundreds of emails, texts and phonecalls to make a single purchase.

Businesses will need AI customer service tools to save themselves from drowning.

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

Do the agent protocol wars even matter when agents easily mimic humans and avoid detection?

[Jordan Singer @jsngr]

the number of new personal AI assistants is too damn high

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

Another day, another agent.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

A new personal AI assistant has arrived. Meet Tab, which announced Tuesday that it had officially emerged from stealth.
https://t.co/fPnLYUugDL

[Decagon @DecagonAI]

Today, we're open-sourcing the Personal Agent Consent & Trust Protocol (PACT), co-developed by @Instinct. We're also joining the Personal Agent Protocol working group by @Muse.

Built on A2A and OAuth, PACT enables businesses to verify who a personal agent is acting for and what the customer has authorized it to do.

Excited to shape the industry standard for how personal agents will interact with businesses.

[Sierra @SierraPlatform]

Today we’re announcing Personal Agent Protocol — an open standard @Meta and @SierraPlatform are developing along with industry partners at @Genesys, @instinct, @RocketOTD, @Shopify, @stripe, and @Walmart. It will help define how personal agents interact with businesses and is open for anyone to implement.

Read more: https://t.co/9cWCVlCv8H

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

Thanks to @mercury Meridian for covering Spread in "A new age for an anti-slop internet." Human activity will only become more rare and more valuable. That's our bet. Proud to see The Human Internet™ in a feature for the first time.

https://t.co/3htrS4JElC

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

When you hear a favorite podcaster at 1X for the first time and they sound like they’re stupid or on drugs. Is there a word for this experience?

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

@mariodian @lexfridman @dhh Does it work for music podcasts? Listen to hosts at 1.5-2x but when music starts it’s back to 1x? I can’t be the only one that’s haunted by the music always sounding like Alvin and the Chipmunks.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Overall, I’m very surprised at how little media coverage there’s been around the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. It’s clearly one of the most important things to happen this year.

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

For years, the advice was to move to San Francisco if you wanted a career in tech. That advice is now wrong. New York has become the most exciting place in the world to build.

A few reasons why:

1. The AI labs are here. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and hundreds of others all run meaningful operations in NYC. You can now build a serious frontier-tech career here without giving up anything.

2. Every major industry lives here, and so does its AI counterpart. New York doesn't only have "tech," but finance, media, advertising, fashion, healthcare, real estate, law, and commerce too, with their applied-AI layer counterparts being built on top of each one.

3. The talent pool is unlike anywhere else. SF gives you engineers. New York gives you engineers, plus world-class designers, salespeople, bankers, marketers, operators, creatives, and media people, all at the top of their fields. Companies will need all of them.

4. People actually want to live here. New York is unlike any other city with its density of restaurants, art, nightlife, fashion, and media - and the people working across these sectors.

If you're building something and you're more than just tech, I'd argue there's only one city for you right now.