SHIFT · GLOBAL
Autonomous software agents begin operating web at scale, reshaping digital finance workflows
MIT Technology Review reports agentic AI systems—autonomous software agents navigating the web without human intermediation—have moved from concept to production. Extends Tim Berners-Lee's 1990s Semantic Web vision. For BFSI: agents autonomously executing trades, compliance checks, and cross-border settlements without API intermediaries.
WHY IT MATTERS · EDITORIAL ANALYSIS
Banks betting on agent-based settlement infrastructure face architectural shift: from request-response APIs to autonomous delegation models. Risk compliance and audit trails become orders of magnitude harder.