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A hand above a payment approval switch, connected through a green gate beside an invoice.

AI agents · Sep 26

Before an AI Agent Makes a Payment: Permissions, Limits and Approval

An agent can prepare a payment. Separate controls must decide whether it is allowed to send it.

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Bar chart of API requests per second crossing a dashed rate limit, with the excess answered by 429, beside a request retried after 1, 2 and 4 seconds plus jitter and sent with the same idempotency key.

Payment APIs · Oct 11

Payment API Rate Limits: Handling a 429 at Stripe, Square and PayPal

How Stripe, Square and PayPal throttle API calls, and how to retry a 429 without charging twice.

Diagram of the New York RAISE Act: frontier developers that trained a model above 10^26 operations publish transparency reports and report incidents; large frontier developers with revenue above $500 million also publish a framework and file disclosures; deadlines of 72 hours, 24 hours, three months, 30 days and two years.

RAISE Act · Oct 11

New York's RAISE Act: What Frontier AI Developers Must Do

What the amended New York RAISE Act asks of frontier AI developers from January 1, 2027.

Diagram comparing the CPI and the PCE price index across formula, weight, scope and other effects, with PCE marked as the measure for the FOMC's 2% goal

PCE · Oct 11

PCE vs CPI: Why the Fed Targets a Different Inflation Gauge

Formula, weights and scope explain why PCE inflation usually runs below CPI, and why the Fed's 2% goal uses PCE.

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A payment is more than a button. It depends on permissions, institutions, software, and the route to a recipient. NY Presswire follows those connections across AI, Fintech, Crypto, and Tech.

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