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Robinhood is now letting customers hand the wheel to AI agents for stock trading and credit card purchases. Users can fund a separate account that an autonomous agent controls independently. It's a significant step — not just for Robinhood, but for what it signals about where retail finance is heading when human oversight becomes optional.
Meanwhile, China has added nine homegrown AI chips to its official secure and reliable government procurement list for the first time. The certifications, valid for three years, represent a concrete milestone in Beijing's push to move state institutions away from Nvidia hardware. It's less about capability today and more about building the infrastructure for independence tomorrow.
And in private credit markets, the AI boom is quietly breaking old rules. Lenders are trading debt in ways that were once considered off-limits, as the enormous capital demands of AI infrastructure strain traditional financing structures. When a technology cycle is large enough, it doesn't just disrupt products — it reshapes the financial plumbing underneath everything else.
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