🚫 Banks block AI agents, Canva Craft, Arc browser retires

Happy Friday.

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Enjoy today's news.

Major U.S. banks find unauthorized AI agents in customer accounts, blocking them as some act without clear user instructions.
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Canva launches Craft, its first design-focused AI image model that plans layouts before rendering 2K visuals and multilingual text.
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Arc browser shuts down on December 22, pointing users to the AI-focused Dia browser with tools to transfer their passwords and bookmarks.
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Apple TV streams the U.S. Grand Prix live this weekend, offering the first F1 race ever broadcast in Dolby Atmos.
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a16z renames its crypto investment arm a16z Frontier, expanding beyond digital assets into AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies.
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Elon Musk invests about $1B in David Ellison’s Skydance, giving the media empire fresh capital to support cost cuts and tech expansion.
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The Federal Communications Commission blocks two devices with Huawei-linked surveillance chips.
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SpaceXSI connects Grok Bot to built-in iOS and Android apps, including Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, and more.
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Replit launches Monitoring Agent, an autonomous AI agent that detects production errors, generates code fixes, and deploys validated updates.
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1Password hits $500M in annual recurring revenue.
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Ideogram debuts Vector 1.0, its first AI model that turns text prompts or images into fully editable SVG graphics with sharp typography.
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Firecrawl launches a free Government & Legal Index for ChatGPT and Claude, giving AI agents access to more than 30M U.S. government pages.
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OpenEvidence integrates Memorial Sloan Kettering’s cancer genetics database into its platform, giving oncologists nationwide expert guidance for precision cancer treatment.
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Resend introduces Inboxes, giving teams shared email inboxes with built-in AI agents that triage and reply to messages.
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New First of Kind episode: Soleio Cuervo sits down with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch to discuss designing software products with taste, avoiding “random acts of AI,” and how autonomous agents are reshaping web development.
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New Only in America episode: Stephen Kotkin sits down with World Labs co-founder Fei-Fei Li to discuss chasing audacious questions in science, why spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier, and how America can adapt to the AI revolution.
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New The Builders episode: PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel joins Walter Isaacson to discuss his Antichrist warnings about global AI regulation, why he wants to accelerate AI, and why he prefers evil founders to incompetent ones.
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New Decoder episode: Nilay Patel interviews Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to discuss why AI may be the most dangerous technology ever invented, how to solve the alignment problem, and the 20 years of job disruption ahead.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.

See you on Monday.

P.S. Cool find: a computer you screw into a light socket. It projects recipes, maps, and timers onto whatever’s in front of you 💡