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View More NewsLedger said is bringing its hardware security model to the fast-growing world of AI agents with the launch of Ledger Agent Stack, an open-source toolkit that allows autonomous software to interact with crypto wallets without ever controlling private keys.The toolkit lets AI agents read wallet balances, analyze portfolios, prepare transactions and propose payments, but requires every sensitive action to be explicitly approved on a Ledger hardware device before it can be executed.This is the first product release under Ledger’s 2026 AI roadmap, as the hardware wallet maker bets that human oversight will become a critical security layer as AI agents…
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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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