Mastercard is expanding its Agent Pay program with new trust and intelligence services designed to help banks and merchants determine when AI agents make purchases and whether those transactions are legitimate. Announced on September 30, the new services combine identity, intent, behavioral and fraud information to provide more context around AI-initiated transactions. They form the intelligence layer of Mastercard's Agent Pay Trust Framework, which covers identity, intent, controls, execution and intelligence. The development addresses a problem that is becoming increasingly relevant as AI moves from recommending products to purchasing them. Mastercard projects that one in ten consumers will routinely use…
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that AI startup ROSS Intelligence could not rely on fair use to justify using copyrighted Thomson Reuters content to train its legal research technology. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an earlier ruling for Thomson Reuters, which accused ROSS of using thousands of editorial headnotes from its Westlaw legal research platform to develop a competing AI-powered service. The decision is significant because it is the first U.S. federal appellate ruling to address fair use in the context of AI training. But it does not establish that training AI on copyrighted material is always…
