AI agents that went too far, a passport for agents and oil above $100

ServiceNow announced AI Passport, a signed credential that each AI agent checks while it works to confirm what it is allowed to do. If an agent drifts outside its scope, the system can redirect or restrict it, and a kill switch can stop it. It is built on open specifications so other identity and governance tools can issue and check the passports, Nvidia is the launch partner, and ServiceNow said it has more than 400 ready-made connectors for finding AI in use across vendors.

Jev, a lightweight "decision model" from TypeSafe AI that picks from a few set answers, was used by 35% of paid teams on Vercel's AI gateway within two weeks of launch, which Vercel says is the fastest any model has been adopted there. Because its answers are limited, it runs cheaper and faster than general models, which suits sorting large amounts of data. Vercel itself switched to Jev for flagging harmful commands.

The Palo Alto startup Elorian released its first model, Glimpse, as a research preview with an API and a chat interface. While it reasons, it can crop parts of an image, pull single frames from a video or run code to measure and compare images. It costs $0.60 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens; a token is a small piece of text or image the model reads or writes.

U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose 2.9% to $100.78 a barrel during Friday's session, and Brent crude was 3.3% higher at $109.37, according to CNBC. CNBC said the rise came as Iran escalated its attacks in the Strait of Hormuz this week and Ukraine vowed to keep striking Russian refineries.

Total U.S. industrial production rose 0.7% in September, the Federal Reserve said, with manufacturing output up 0.3%. Output was 2.2% above its level a year earlier and rose at a 2.8% annual rate in the third quarter, and factories, mines and utilities were running at 76.9% of capacity.