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Jack Dorsey slashed 40 percent of his workforce and said most companies would follow within a year. But former employees, analysts, and the company's own history tell a more complicated story.
The Iran conflict is threatening chip supplies, submarine cables, and energy costs simultaneously. For an industry building agentic commerce on the assumption of abundant AI infrastructure, the timing could not be worse.
Google DeepMind publishes a framework for intelligent AI delegation just as the industry races to build the infrastructure without one.
From warehouse to checkout, agentic commerce is rewriting how products get found, bought, and delivered.
Playing the long game. Four maturity levels from Exposed to Platform.
Where MCP fits alongside everything else you are building.
How to get budget, engineering time, and executive buy-in for MCP.
Stop reading. Start touching. Four hands-on labs that take 15 minutes total.
What your engineering team is actually building, explained without code.
Should your team actually invest in MCP? A decision framework.
Your CEO just asked what MCP means for your product. Here's what you say.
The Product Person's Guide to Model Context Protocol
The week AI's business model fractured. Here is what you need to know.
OpenAI is selling ads inside ChatGPT. Perplexity just killed theirs. Google is hedging. Anthropic ran a Super Bowl ad mocking the whole idea. The way AI platforms make money will determine what they become.
Recommendation poisoning is the new SEO manipulation, except the stakes involve real money and the consumer never sees the ranking.
Card networks are racing to pilot agentic commerce. The compliance frameworks to govern it do not exist yet.
Every product team in 2026 is being asked the same question: "What's our AI integration strategy?"
Google's WebMCP turns every website into a structured tool for AI agents. OpenAI's Codex-Spark makes those agents fast enough to act in real time. Two announcements, 24 hours apart, and the agentic web just stopped being theoretical.
The week machines started buying things. Here is what you need to know.
Google, Alipay, and Coinbase are building the protocols that let machines buy things. Here is how the plumbing works.
eBay is banning AI shopping bots. Amazon is suing them. Google just shipped live checkout through them. The platforms that built e-commerce are scrambling to avoid becoming back-end infrastructure nobody sees.
70 percent of consumers are ready to let AI agents handle their shopping. A CVSS 10.0 vulnerability shows why the security model is not ready to let them.
OpenAI launched advertising in ChatGPT this week. The financial reality behind the pivot tells you everything about where AI is heading.
The free-for-all era of AI companies scraping the web is ending. The question now is who becomes the intermediary, and what publishers actually get paid.