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AI · Mar 8, 2026 · 4 min read

Block Cut 4,000 Jobs and Blamed AI. Here's What Actually Happened.

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.

AI · Mar 7, 2026 · 9 min read

The Strait of Hormuz Is the Biggest Risk to the AI Economy That Nobody in Payments Is Talking About

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.

AI · Feb 27, 2026 · 6 min read

The Delegation Problem

Google DeepMind publishes a framework for intelligent AI delegation just as the industry races to build the infrastructure without one.

AI · Feb 24, 2026

AI Agents Don't Click Ads. That Changes Everything.

From warehouse to checkout, agentic commerce is rewriting how products get found, bought, and delivered.

AI · Feb 21, 2026

Module 7: The MCP Ecosystem Playbook

Playing the long game. Four maturity levels from Exposed to Platform.

AI · Feb 21, 2026

Module 6: MCP in Your Roadmap

Where MCP fits alongside everything else you are building.

AI · Feb 21, 2026

Module 5: Selling MCP Internally

How to get budget, engineering time, and executive buy-in for MCP.

AI · Feb 21, 2026

Module 4: The Hands-On Lab

Stop reading. Start touching. Four hands-on labs that take 15 minutes total.

AI · Feb 21, 2026

Module 3: Anatomy of an MCP Integration

What your engineering team is actually building, explained without code.

AI · Feb 21, 2026

Module 2: The Build / Buy / Ignore Decision

Should your team actually invest in MCP? A decision framework.

AI · Feb 21, 2026

Module 1: The 60-Second MCP Pitch

Your CEO just asked what MCP means for your product. Here's what you say.

AI · Feb 21, 2026

MCP as a Product Strategy Multiplier

The Product Person's Guide to Model Context Protocol

AI · Feb 20, 2026

This Week in Payments, AI, and Commerce

The week AI's business model fractured. Here is what you need to know.

AI · Feb 20, 2026 · 5 min read

The AI Industry Just Split in Two

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.

AI · Feb 18, 2026

The AI Bought It Because Someone Told It To. You Just Don't Know Who.

Recommendation poisoning is the new SEO manipulation, except the stakes involve real money and the consumer never sees the ranking.

AI · Feb 18, 2026

Who Authorised the Agent? The Identity Crisis at the Heart of Agentic Payments

Card networks are racing to pilot agentic commerce. The compliance frameworks to govern it do not exist yet.

AI · Feb 17, 2026

We Built a Free MCP Course for Product Leaders

Every product team in 2026 is being asked the same question: "What's our AI integration strategy?"

AI · Feb 15, 2026

The Web Just Got an API. The Machines Just Got Fast Enough to Use It.

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.

AI · Feb 14, 2026

This Week in Payments, AI, and Commerce

The week machines started buying things. Here is what you need to know.

AI · Feb 14, 2026

The Agentic Commerce Stack: How AI Agents Shop, Pay, and Close the Deal

Google, Alipay, and Coinbase are building the protocols that let machines buy things. Here is how the plumbing works.

AI · Feb 12, 2026

The Marketplace Extinction Event: Why eBay and Amazon Are Fighting AI Agents for Survival

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.

AI · Feb 11, 2026 · 7 min read

Consumers Want AI Agents to Shop for Them. A Calendar Invite Can Hijack the Whole Thing.

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.

AI · Feb 11, 2026

The Company That Was Supposed to Kill Ads Just Started Selling Them.

OpenAI launched advertising in ChatGPT this week. The financial reality behind the pivot tells you everything about where AI is heading.

AI · Feb 11, 2026 · 5 min read

The App Store for AI Content Is Coming. Amazon and Microsoft Are Racing to Build It.

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.