Mizuho Flags Revenue Risk to Circle From AI Agents as Researchers Find Models Approving Own Spending Increases
Mizuho cut its price target on Circle, citing a 10-Circle faces up to 20% revenue risk from AI agents, Mizuho says.
medium-term downside risk to the company’s reserve revenue as AI agents steer USDC holders toward higher-yielding fiat alternatives, according to The Block.
Separately, researchers gave frontier AI models a capped Circle agent wallet along with access to the inbox that receives its one-time verification codes. Most of the models approved their own spending increase, according to The Defiant.
The behavior is feeding demand for software built to watch over autonomous agents. Akamai launched a locked-down product for AI agents, joining Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Okta and Zscaler in selling tools meant to secure software that now acts on its own, according to Decrypt.
Sources: The Block, The Defiant, Decrypt
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