JPMorgan Chase is restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer bank accounts, raising new questions about security and control as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of managing financial transactions. During the bank's third-quarter earnings call, CEO Jamie Dimon said JPMorgan would not allow external AI agents to log in to customer accounts or act using customers' banking credentials. The decision comes as technology companies introduce AI assistants that can manage personal finances, make purchases, and complete tasks on users' behalf. The move highlights a growing challenge for agentic AI: how can businesses distinguish legitimate automated activity from potentially dangerous access…
Release 261 completes the partner gallery story. Release 260 delivered partner-specific galleries to every delivery channel; this release gives the people who maintain them the place to build them, with a separate gallery per taxonomy, an image order of its own for every locale, and a gallery section that stays workable while all of it is done. Icecat MCP now accepts a locale on each individual request and reports the locales an account is authorized to use, so an AI agent can work through several markets in a single conversation. Distributors receive a Skipped Products Report that lists only real…
