Agent Autonomy Hits Real-World Limits — From IDE Stress to Legal Risk

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Antigravity IDE Strains Under AI Agent Load
Coverage of Antigravity an emerging VS Code alternative built around integrated AI agents that can refactor and manage codebases highlighted the need for stricter rate limits and safety controls as developers lean on agents for more autonomous coding. The story underscores how “agentic IDEs” are becoming real products, not demos, and how infrastructure constraints are already shaping how aggressively teams can let coding agents operate on live repos.

Only 21% of Enterprises Have Full Visibility into AI Agents 
A new State of Agentic AI Security 2025 report from Akto (Dec 8) reveals that enterprise adoption of AI agents has raced ahead of security practices. According to surveys of large companies, 38.6% have already deployed AI agents at department or enterprise scale (with another ~55% in pilots or experiments), yet only 21% of security leaders report full visibility into their agents’ actions, tool invocations or data access

Visa, Mastercard, PayPal Push Agentic AI Into Payments Rails
The Atlanta Fed’s Take On Payments blog highlighted how major payment networks are rolling out agentic AI payment flows. PayPal’s agentic commerce services, Mastercard’s Agent Pay for programmable, personalized payments, and Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol for cryptographically authenticated agents are collectively framed as the first wave of “agentic routing” – where AI agents choose between FedNow, RTP, or ACH based on speed, cost, and risk, then execute the payment end-to-end.

Police, Pandora, and LIV Golf Take AI Agents From Pilot to Production
At Salesforce’s Agentforce World Tour in London, leaders from UK policing, Pandora, and LIV Golf detailed full-scale deployments of AI agents in public safety, retail, and sports media. “Bobby” the virtual police assistant now triages sensitive citizen inquiries, Pandora’s “Gemma” boosts NPS and conversational commerce, and LIV Golf’s “Agent Caddy” powers real-time stats and fan engagement—illustrating how agentic CX is moving into high-stakes, revenue-linked workflows

BNY Mellon Taps Google’s Gemini 3 to Build “Eliza” Banking Agents
BNY Mellon is working with Google to use the new Gemini 3 models and its in-house “Eliza” AI platform to build agentic systems for tasks like forecasting cash needs and streamlining back-office operations. The bank frames Eliza as a layer that coordinates multiple AI capabilities into workflow-aware agents, signaling that tier-one financial institutions are moving beyond chatbots toward deeply integrated decision-making agents

Map Agent Autonomy Before Letting It Sign Anything
A new Bloomberg Law insight argues that legal departments need to treat agentic AI as a distinct risk class from gen-AI chat tools because it can execute multi-step workflows like contract approvals and compliance checks without human review. The piece proposes an “autonomy spectrum” for agents ranging from assistive to fully agentic and urges legal teams to demand strong guardrails, override mechanisms, and audit trails before agents can form binding agreements or take consequential actions

Fetch.ai Rolls Out Verified Agent Handles for Business Automation

Fetch.ai launched verified Agent handles, enabling businesses to create autonomous AI agents that negotiate and transact directly with consumer agents, bypassing traditional websites for trust-based machine-to-machine decisions. This infrastructure play positions agentic commerce as a $17.5T market, with early adopters gaining first-mover edge in automated B2B/B2C flows. Strategic implications include reduced human oversight in supply chains, boosting efficiency by 30-50% for high-volume sectors like retail and logistics.

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