What Changed in Machine Payments Since Tempo Mainnet
Four months after Tempo mainnet, the primary record shows a machine-payments stack expanding across rails, sessions, …
Four months after Tempo mainnet, the primary record shows a machine-payments stack expanding across rails, sessions, …
Field notes on agent identity fragmentation, from an evening w/ Okta , Auth0 , Skyfire , Experian , Mastercard , …
Field notes from PayPal’s AI Innovation Meetup , where a talk about token efficiency kept routing toward a harder …
Four payment companies shared a stage on agentic commerce. All four agreed the transaction is trivial. They spent the …
Field report on signals worth amplifying from 77 Context Engineering Hackathon submissions
The room used to be an auto shop. You can still see where the lifts bolted into the floor. Workato converted it into a …
Two OpenClaw appearances at Microsoft Build, one repeated claim, and the strange fact of who kept saying it.
Field report from inside an AI company’s museum to the web before AI luma.com/h85fumdt
I crossed the Bay Bridge to True Ventures on May 19 for the first Bay Area AT Protocol meetup . The most useful signal …
A Meetup, A Map & Question About What Agents Might Instill Stripe Sessions 2026 had just wrapped when a handful of …
January 2011. Second floor of a SOMA corner building. Dozens of founders, corporate types and a few quiet observers …
Stripe Sessions 2026: Field Notes Two days at Moscone, where infrastructure for non-human buyers got built and almost …
Or: why I built a little Bluesky machiya on the side of a Google mountain, and how you can too. A …
Part 3: What Convergence Looks Like At 252,756 miles from Earth, the farthest any human has ever been, Commander Reid …
Part 2: The 📊 Chart, the🪞Mirror & What Comes 🎬 Next In Part 1 , I described watching Artemis II break the Apollo …
Part 1: The Moment & the Split I was watching the Artemis II feed when it happened. The Apollo distance record …
The astrologer had the royal ear. The jester had the truth. I attended today’s Bloomberg Beta book talk with …
Field report from Imbue’s Hayes Valley office, San Francisco Short Version The most sophisticated agent fleet …
When the enterprise interface disappears, what remains is architecture Field report from Workato’s Agentic AI in …
Based on conversations with Vincent Koc, core OpenClaw maintainer, at the AWS OpenClaw Hack on March 25, 2026 && …
A field report from Workato’s AI Hub, San Francisco Natala Menezes , VP of Marketing at Workato , opened the …
What Jensen Huang & Andre Karpathy revealed this week about work, learning & the operating system few saw coming …
Prompt Injection, Debt Collection Agents & California’s Expanding Regulatory Perimeter In Part 1 , we looked at the …
Something shifted in a packed room at Deloitte’s San Francisco office last night. A panel on agentic AI in …
Part 3 of 3 Six demos. One stage. A single question nobody asked out loud: what happens when autonomous agents need to …
Part 2 of 3. 🛡️ Part 1 covered 🦄 Peter Steinberger ’s origin story and why OpenClaw exists. This installment is …
Part 1 of 3. 🦄 Peter Steinberger built OpenClaw to scratch a personal itch. 160,000 GitHub stars later, the itch turned …
A summit without product announcements is itself a product announcement. For centuries, when explorers reached the edge …
From Generation to Curation Across Domains Something shifted in the room at the AI Collective & Silicon Valley Video …
What 2025 proved & what 2026 will demand from anyone who wants to ship tl;dr For Builders The constraint shifted. …
This is Article 6 in the Windsurf series, tracking the ripple effects of the July 2025 split. Previous chapters (below) …
Executive Summary For five years (2020–2025), the AI industry operated under a gravity-defying economic law: Scaling. …
Introduction This analysis draws from two November 2025 sources documenting Model Context Protocol’s evolution at …
This is Article 5 in an ongoing series tracking how one acquisition revealed tectonic plates shifting beneath agentic …
Inside Web Discovery Summit 2025 , Parag Agrawal explains why publisher relationships must rebuild from infrastructure …
Inside Web Discovery Summit 2025, Or Lenchner and Paddy Srinivasan reveal the temporal crisis forcing search …
When AI agents became shoppers, something fundamental shifted. Not the interface – the topology of commerce …
A decade of cloud computing trained organizations to think stateless: spin up, execute, discard. Now the grammar …
Last night the powder room door at Vapi’s headquarters unlocks via QR code: a micro-symptom of the evening’s …
How Stripe & OpenAI Just Invented the Payment Rail for AI Agents In September 2025, two tech giants architected a …
At OpenAI DevDay 2025, the agent development conversation shifted terrain - from whether agents work to who controls the …
Three data points arrived within weeks of each other. Each one perhaps unremarkable on its own. Together, they map a …
Executive summary SF Tech Week Oct 6–12 hosts over 1,100 events. 380+ focus on AI. That density is the signal. The …
What if every candidate who applied actually got an interview? Not a subset. Not the “qualified” ones. Every …
A curious convergence at frontiertower last night. (The 16-floor innovation hub in heart of San Francisco is dedicated …
Howard Gardner , the Harvard cognitive scientist who revolutionized how the world thinks about intelligence, has arrived …
Executive Summary On September 16, 2025, Google introduced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) with backing from 60+ …
Unlike the cloud, AI sells itself. Business leaders can experience the value firsthand, shifting the conversation from …
Insights from Aaron Levie ’s vision for organizational transformation in the age of agents TL;DR: The vast …
VP Panel: The Innovation Velocity Challenge The BoxWorks VP panel revealed a fundamental tension in enterprise AI …
Conversations from the trenches of enterprise AI adoption Between keynotes & code lies the messy middle of AI …
Standards create freedom through constraint. Protocols enable spontaneity by removing friction. Infrastructure becomes …
Competition for developer mindshare in AI has shifted. The companies that win aren’t just building better models: …
Intro I just got hands‑on with Parallel Web Systems Deep Research platform. In a few focused runs I mapped the clearest …
Imaginary Panel with: Moderator: Vinod Khosla , Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures Panelists: Karthik Narasimhan …
Opening The UC Berkeley Agentic AI Summit marked a convergence point. Across academia, industry, and venture capital, …
Insights from Leading AI Companies on Context Engineering & Agent Memory at Redis Released, San Francisco, 4 …
A quiet infrastructure shift assembles beneath enterprise attention. While industry debates artificial …
The development mental model just shifted. Mark-Daniel S. VC from AWS opened by highlighting " the zero to scale …
Link: buildathon.ai Hosts: AI Fund and DeepLearning.AI What: A multi-stage competition to prototype AI products in one …
Reflections on Citi Gen AI Summit 2025: Impact of Gen AI on Software Development Where are we in the GenAI hype cycle …
Web’s unit of work is shifting from prebuilt code to just-in-time generation per user. v0 by Vercel now serves 3M+ …
Bottom line: On a Tuesday morning in August, Perplexity AI offered to buy the gate to two-thirds of the internet. The …
Browser-native AI agents represent the next computing platform shift. OpenAI’s enterprise data integration through …
While competitors fragment through acquisitions and integrations, Cursor’s exclusive GPT-5 partnership creates …
Signal for August Advisory Services: Context, Memory, Intelligence. The Lab: systems testing informs strategy. Strategic …
Bottom Line Up Front: While competitors fragment through acquisitions and integrations, Cursor ’s exclusive GPT-5 …
Three weeks. That’s how long it took Cognition to transform an acquisition into an ultimatum. After bringing …
Why the most valuable programming artifact may have never code at all Hidden Mathematics of Value Software’s quiet …
Sam Altman’s latest insights from June and July 2025 reveal an industry preparing for fundamental shifts in how …
Path to autonomous agents runs through more human control, not less. Harrison Chase , CEO of LangChain , has offered a …
Traditional coding agent query: “How do I call the user authentication API?” Asimov-optimized query: …
What happens when walls between wallets dissolve: not just for consumers, but for systems themselves? PayPal …
A mid-sized SaaS company celebrating 40% productivity gains from AI implementation suddenly faces an uncomfortable …
As Windsurf’s $2.4 billion dismantling demonstrates the perils of foundation model dependencies, Amjad Masad …
How Cursor’s perfectly timed podcast with Stripe’s CEO exposed the real state of AI adoption amid Silicon …
What happens when a five-person team can suddenly accomplish what previously required fifty? This isn’t science …
When a tool evolves this quickly, what remains: codebase, culture, or cadence? How Thursday night’s vibeathon …
David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH) is a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, co-owner & CTO of 37signals …
When Failure Becomes Fortune: The Windsurf Story “I think startups are basically like getting slapped in the face …
How a Thursday night 🌃 vibeathon became the farewell no one saw coming, just hours before Windsurf ’ s founders …
How Sound & Gesture Are Redefining Computing OpenAI’s upcoming hardware device, detailed in Part 1 , could …
Insights from the Arize Observe 2025 Agent Frameworks Panel By 9 AM, seven hundred people had filled the Ferry …
What happens when you place the world’s most influential AI minds in the same room to debate the future of …
Reflections on monetary policy, technological disruption, and the future of economic intelligence Live stream link here: …
Strategic intelligence from the convergence of OpenAI and LoveFrom The Vision Crystallizing When Jony Ive says …
When Demis Hassabis , CEO of Google DeepMind states that “We are trying to build AGI… it has to understand …
In a rapidly digitizing economy, stablecoins are evolving from speculative crypto instruments into foundational …
In an era where tech companies race to announce “AI moonshots,” Stripe is taking a refreshingly different …
I. The Unseen Thesis: When Search Becomes Orchestration Perplexity AI has emerged as a notable player in the evolving …
At Stripe Sessions Moscone Center , legendary designer Sir Jony Ive sat down with Patrick Collison for one of the most …
Executive Summary At Stripe Sessions 2025, the company unveiled a sweeping vision of financial infrastructure built for …
In the same auditorium where aluminum-carved minimalism once transformed our relationship with pocket computing 📲🍎 8,000 …
Following my recent article on Coinbase’s groundbreaking x.402 payment protocol announcement, Edwin Wee Arbus …
“The files are in the computer.” With that half-joking, half-urgent invocation of Zoolander, Erik Reppel …
Executive Summary: Empowering Developer Communities As PayPal CEO Alex Chriss emphasizes, " velocity and impactful …
The Power Players Behind the Financial Revolution When Ian Barile & Samuel Beard took the stage at Town Square C on …
PayPal just turned ‘add to cart’ into ‘chat to purchase’—and developers are orchestrating …
May 1, 2025 At PayPal HQ in San Jose, the future of commerce wasn’t just discussed—it was redefined. The third and final …
From PayPal HQ in San Jose, where the future of commerce is being rewritten through natural language The Cultural Shift: …
At Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco, nearly 200 builders and thinkers gathered for a master class on AI agents – not …
📸🌄 🌍🌠 Main source: The AI Forecast podcast “The Path to Safe AI – Education” - Host Paul Muller explores …
At AWS Dev Day on “Building Generative AI Applications with Serverless” in San Francisco, AWS Principal …
One April evening in San Francisco, the AWS Gen AI Loft filled with builders, founders, and investors looking for more …
Based on Ersin Yumer’s presentation at NVIDIA GTC 2025 In the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI, a quiet …
Based on NVIDIA GTC 2025 presentation by Raed Al-Tikriti, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Disguise …
NVIDIA GTC (GPU Technology Conference) - March 19, 2025, 2:00 PM - 2:40 PM PDT Presenters: Vishu Bhooshan , Associate, …
A conversation between NFX’s James Currier and Gary Rivlin , author of “AI VALLEY” In a packed venue …
Based on the NVIDIA GTC 2025 keynote “Reshaping the Future of AI Filmmaking” by Haohong Wang, General …
2024 is officially the year AI agents moved from experimental concepts to production deployment. This analysis distills …
An inside look at Aparna Dhinakaran ’s breakthrough preso on AI agent evaluation & how it reveals a roadmap …
At NVIDIA GTC 2025, Julia Koch, Executive Director at Finanz Informatik, unveiled one of Europe’s largest AI …
At NVIDIA’s GTC 2025 conference, Capital One showcased its impressive journey in AI adoption, presenting two …
In the heart of Silicon Valley, a transformation is taking place that rivals the Industrial Revolution in its …
As the crowd settled into UC Berkeley’s Banatao Auditorium, the air buzzed with anticipation. We were about to …
A deep dive into the highlight of the Stanford University Blockchain Summit, featuring cryptography pioneer and summit …
“We just want to talk to the best in the world. Like you would talk to them in real life & get their advice …
The real AI revolution is happening behind the scenes in how systems access, process, and learn from information. I …
Shifting the AI Conversation: From “Which Algorithm?” to “Whose Interests?” At the Northeastern …
An extraordinary meeting of minds unfolded at Northeastern University - Oakland Responsible AI Conference during a …
A synthesis of insights from the panel “Putting Responsible AI into Practice: Roadmaps and Governance” and …
How Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI & Anthropic Approach AI’s Trust Paradox Fireside Chat: …
Silicon Valley thrives on boundless optimism. It’s what fuels the next big breakthroughs, the moonshot ideas, and the …
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the intersection of technology and social impact is …
Last week, Northeastern University - Oakland hosted a dynamic Responsible AI conference , marking my first visit to the …
Silicon Valley thrives on its ability to identify the future before it becomes obvious . Last night, that future …
The Stanford Blockchain Accelerator Demo Day VI showcased some of the most innovative blockchain and AI-driven startups …
Introduction: A Movement Sparked by Vision Blockchain University was first announced by Tim Swanson on Twitter during …
Introduction: A Movement Sparked by Vision Blockchain University was first announced by Tim Swanson on Twitter during …
Indra Nooyi ’s insights at the recent AWS fireside chat with Phil Le-Brun remind us of an imperative that echoes across …
In a recent conversation with Scott Galloway and Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and co-author of Genesis: Artificial …
Reflecting on a Pivotal Conversation, Three Years Later Three years ago, on November 10, 2021, pioneering voices …
Exploring Noam Brown’s Vision for Collaboration, Generalization, and Academic Disruption in AI This article draws …
Introduction In an era defined by rapid technological evolution, the fusion of artificial intelligence (AI) with human …
As organizations dive deeper into Generative AI, bridging the gap between experimentation and operational excellence …
At the AWS Generative AI Loft in San Francisco , a captivated audience witnessed what might be remembered as a pivotal …
In a fascinating glimpse shared through the AWS Innovation Ambassadors Podcast 🎙️, the story of FlexGen’s groundbreaking …
Anthropic ’s Amanda Askell often emphasizes the intricate interplay of ethics, philosophy, and technical systems, …
The world of artificial intelligence presents a paradox—although engineered with scientific precision, its mysteries …
As organizations embrace the transformative potential of Generative AI, many are eager to shift from early …
In a conversation that resonated deeply with innovators, creators, and thinkers at the Masters of Scale Summit, Mustafa …
The field of generative AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace, and enterprises are taking note. At a recent panel …
As the global technological landscape advances, few forces have proven as disruptive as artificial intelligence (AI). …
In the dynamic journey of generative AI, insights from Mayur Udernani highlight key areas where organizations can turn …
“As we stand at the threshold of the AI era, one thing is clear: this technology has the power to transform every …
Reflections on: Geoffrey Hinton, a University Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto, …
Reflections about Keynote: Yann LeCun, “Human-Level AI”: https://youtu.be/4DsCtgtQlZU?si=0H26Fuvn-lfV2xMJ …
Introduction In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations face an unprecedented challenge: navigating the …
Generative AI continues to transform industries, and at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Gen AI Developer Day, Margaret …
Reflections on a Conversation with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang – The Future of AI & Energy 27 September 2024 …
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JgQ1FJ_wow8&t=5s Artificial intelligence has been dominating the headlines recently, but …
Unlocking Value Creation: Lessons from PayPal’s AI-Driven Journey with Oracle As organizations navigate the complexities …
Oracle’s Generative Development: Revolutionizing Enterprise App Development In an era where the fusion of AI and …
On Thursday, September 19 , the AWS Generative AI Loft in San Francisco hosted a remarkable event that resonated across …
As someone who has witnessed multiple cycles of technological innovation—from the advent of personal computing to the …
In the final article of our GenAI Architecture Series, we focus on a pressing challenge for organizations and AI …
At the recent LLMOps Micro-Summit, Atindriyo Sanyal , Co-founder & CTO of Galileo, delved into cutting-edge …
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=lwMk4gNDCrA Session Slides: https://pbase.ai/3MhT1Qx As AI continues to redefine …
LLMOPs Micro-Summit, San Francisco youtube.com/watch?v=IPDqbfZT1qg&t=1s As the demand for more efficient, accurate, …
LLMOPs Micro-Summit, San Francisco https://youtube.com/watch?v=KwcwlMhtFPk As we navigate the landscape of artificial …
Introduction: In August 2024, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, delivered an illuminating lecture at Stanford …
youtube.com/watch?v=fwa0MCtGTEc Presenters: Hon. Laurel Beeler, US District Court | Northern District of California Ruth …
Thursday’s meetup was nothing short of inspiring! Hosted & moderated by SF AI Club founders Paul Steven …
youtube.com/watch?v=_bn9Ek6_F8U&t=1725s Summarizing highlights: On a memorable evening at Stanford University, the …
Summarizing Interview - Aleksander Madry, OpenAI Technical Staff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRbCWAODPOI August 2, …
Per Aisha Counts recent article on X planning a payment platform I share my reflections in the context of my PayPal and …
sandbox labs ai manifesto: amplifying human potential through generative ai (june 13, 2024) i. the dawn of a new …
In 2007, Steve Jobs revolutionized the world with the launch of the iPhone. Fast forward to 2024, and Jensen Huang, CEO …
Another great interview with Sam Altman, this one with Howard University students, President Ben Vinson III, and Prof. …
From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Mar 27, 2024 https://youtube.com/watch?v=dP5b82879KM&t=1444s …
The merger between Fetch.ai , SingularityNET, and Ocean Protocol marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of AI, setting …
Inferring from Nvidia Founder & CEO Jensen Huang’s extraordinary keynote today: Nvidia is ushering in a new …
ChatGPT 🤖🎲✒️: The advent of GPT technology marks not just another step in the evolution of computing, but a genuine …