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Over 300 age-related bills were introduced across several US states in 2025 alone. We’ve heard firsthand from numerous legal and compliance teams that keeping up with these regulations is incredibly overwhelming. That’s why we developed Atlas, a global database tracking evolving age assurance regulations. Atlas tracks recent legislation impacting social media platforms, adult content, age-restricted services, and other related legislation.

We’ve been collaborating with others to explore how agentic commerce and enterprise agents will work. Alfonso Gómez-Jordana Mañas, co-founder of Crossmint shares his thoughts on the current state of payment security and how compliance mechanisms like KYC and AML need to evolve to support agentic commerce. OpenClaw provided users with an open-source framework to launch AI agents.

AI agents are being deployed in the real world at pace. In the enterprise realm, they’re accessing APIs, shipping code, and running decisioning workflows on behalf of the organizations and individuals who deploy them. Entirely new businesses have sprung up, leveraging AI agents to streamline customer support and sales processes.

In Australia, the introduction of the Social Media Minimum Age Act increased the importance of gauging a user’s age without compromising their privacy. To help organizations navigate these requirements, Persona now supports an integration with ConnectID, an Australian digital identity network.

KYC checks are a regulatory requirement, and they can help prevent fraudsters and other bad actors from accessing your platform. But they're not designed to catch every type of fraud. That’s why many fintechs add additional identity verification and fraud checks. However, some overlook link analysis, which is an increasingly important layer for detecting fraud rings and AI-driven attacks.

Ask anyone what they think when a website requests a driver's license, Social Security number, or email address, and you'll hear the same reaction: "Why do they need that?" It’s a fair question. Not a day goes by without news of another data breach or scam. Many people have either experienced fraud firsthand or know someone who has. While they're more aware of the need to protect their data, they don't feel equipped to actually do it.

New age mandates continue to emerge across the world. For product managers, compliance officers, and legal professionals responsible for implementing age assurance, understanding internationally recognized frameworks is essential. ISO 27566 and IEEE 2089 are the two leading internationally recognized standards for age assurance referenced by regulatory bodies creating guidelines for recent age mandates. While both standards address age assurance, they serve complementary purposes.

Effective January 1, 2026, Mexico’s Ley Aduanera (Customs Law) has dramatically increased documentation requirements for anyone importing or exporting through Mexico. If you move goods through Mexico, the increased documentation requirements can become a compliance risk if you’re not set up to both collect and verify the validity of documents.

We’ve been collaborating with others to explore when and how agentic commerce will work. Robin Gandhi is the CPO of Lithic, a leading card issuer that’s already seeing agents use its cards to make purchases. Below, he shares his thoughts on what’s changed, and what needs to change, for agentic commerce to become mainstream. Last year, I wrote about the opportunity for agentic payments to revolutionize travel bookings, ad spend management, procurement, and more.