Visa just wired ChatGPT to shop and pay on your behalf — an AI agent can now buy at any Visa merchant without you clicking “buy.” It capped a week where the labs pushed autonomy and capital to new highs: Anthropic put Claude Fable 5, its most powerful public model, into everyone’s hands; Jeff Bezos came out of stealth with Prometheus, a $41B startup building an “artificial general engineer.” A self-replicating worm hit 73 of Microsoft’s own GitHub repositories through AI coding tools. Anthropic broke with the White House over preempting state AI laws; a German court ruled Google is liable for what its AI Overviews say. The agents got more capable this week — and a lot more autonomous.