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  "id": 16072740,
  "title": "Banks Crack Down on Unauthorized AI Agents Operating Inside Customer Accounts",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/banks-crack-down-on-unauthorized-ai-agents-operating-inside-customer",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-22T16:31:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/banking/2026/banks-crack-down-on-unauthorized-ai-agents-operating-inside-customer-accounts/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Major U.S. banks are detecting and deleting unauthorized third-party artificial intelligence agents that are taking actions inside customer accounts, Reuters reported Thursday (Oct. 22), citing a paywalled article by Axios. Some of the agents the banks have detected appear to have tried to take actions that were not requested by the user, according to the report. […] The post Banks Crack Down on…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Live Mint",
        "title": "US banks allegedly detect unauthorised AI agents accessing customer accounts: What to know",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/us-banks-allegedly-detect-unauthorised-ai-agents-accessing-customer",
        "published": "2026-10-22T18:24:24.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Press Journal",
        "title": "US Banks Detect Unauthorised AI Agents Inside Customer Accounts: Report",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/us-banks-detect-unauthorised-ai-agents-inside-customer-accounts-report",
        "published": "2026-10-22T18:56:32.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Investing.com",
        "title": "US banks are blocking third-party AI agents access to customer accounts, sources say",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/us-banks-are-blocking-third-party-ai-agents-access-to-customer",
        "published": "2026-10-22T21:18:35.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}