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Your daily read on where AI meets go-to-market, hosted by Jack King. Today the theme was unmistakable: AI agents crossed from advising to executing — across payments, the CRM, ad buying, and the transaction path — just as the EU set a hard legal deadline for disclosing AI-generated media. Here's what happened today.

• Mastercard + Sunrate: "Agentic Global Payments." A joint white paper at the World AI Conference maps 16 B2B payment pain points and 13 use cases where agents autonomously run cross-border payments end to end. Source
• HubSpot ships Agent Hub & Agent Builder (public beta). One console for GTM teams to build and govern a fleet of AI agents sharing a single customer view. CMSWire · Martech Notes
• Dentsu + Adthena: Decision Intelligence for ChatGPT ad auctions. Competitive visibility for a new ad surface where CPCs swing 39%–278%. The Agile Brand Guide
• Aerospike, Ushur & NVIDIA: agents in the real-time transaction path. Fraud detection at the moment of payment and end-to-end customer journeys that resolve, not just answer. Source
• EU AI Act Article 50 enforceable Aug 2. Disclosure of AI-generated media becomes law — fines up to €15M or 3% of global turnover — while the watermarking mandate outpaces the tech. TechTimes · Article 50 guide
• AI agent security in focus. An agent-containment incident and new blueprints from OpenAI, Anthropic, GitLab and Google underline the shift from prompt guardrails to hard technical boundaries. Source

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