{
  "id": 17084036,
  "title": "CFTC’s Selig Sees Role for Compute Futures, Rules for AI Trading Agents",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/cftcs-selig-sees-role-for-compute-futures-rules-for-ai-trading-agents",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-29T15:46:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/cftcs-selig-sees-role-for-compute-futures-rules-for-ai-trading-agents/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig outlined a potential role for derivatives markets in financing the artificial intelligence (AI) economy, arguing that businesses will need tools to hedge computing costs. At the same time, he said, regulators confront unresolved questions about autonomous trading agents. Speaking Wednesday (Oct. 28) at the agency’s inaugural…",
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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."
}