The RFTUV Briefing: AI Is Hiring AI, China's Factories Skip to Agents, and the Banks Write the First Rules for Agents Spending Money

The RFTUV Briefing for October 12, 2026, evening edition. The agents-at-work edition: AI is now hiring AI, as screening tools grade AI-written applications with no human in the room, while the IMF calls AI a slow-moving tsunami for jobs. China's factories skip traditional digitalisation and jump straight to AI agents, exporting the playbook worldwide. And six global banks publish five principles for agentic commerce, the first rules for when AI agents spend money. Plus a Hudson Valley Monday-evening close. Full articles at rftuv.ai.

Stories:
- AI is now hiring AI in workplace recruitment disasters (AFR, Oct 12); IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva calls AI a slow-moving tsunami at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, about 40 percent of jobs globally impacted, rising to about 60 percent in advanced economies (Oct 12)
- China's factories leap straight into agentic AI and take it global, according to Black Lake CEO Zhou Yuxiang (South China Morning Post, Oct 12)
- Banks share principles for agentic commerce: ASB Bank, Bank of America, Capital One, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, ING Group and NatWest Group, five principles in "Building Trust in Agentic Commerce" (FintechNews CH, Oct 12; PYMNTS, Oct 12)
- Hudson Valley evening close: a mid-October Monday, porch lights and early dark