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Google just posted its best quarter ever. OpenAI just launched a browser to replace it. Both things can be true, and the implications for advertising, commerce, and payments are enormous.
OpenAI and Anthropic shipped agent management platforms within hours of each other. The message is clear: stop talking to AI and start managing it.
Hyperscaler capex has hit levels that rival national economies. The software companies those dollars are meant to replace are paying the price.
Last holiday season, something shifted. Traffic to US retail sites from generative AI tools increased by 693 percent year over year, according to Adobe Analytics. That alone would be a headline.
This week, two of the largest AI companies in the world made opposite bets on the same question: how do you monetize a conversational AI platform?
OpenAI's new platform frames AI agents as enterprise employees, raising a question enterprise leadership will face: what happens when headcount is measured in agents, not people?
Apple does not partner easily. The company that builds its own chips, designs its own operating systems, and famously controls every layer of its stack announced on February 3 that it is integrating AI coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI directly into…
Last week, Klarna joined Google's Universal Commerce Protocol. The largest buy now, pay later provider in the West is now plugging into the infrastructure that lets AI agents shop on your behalf.
In January 2026, developer Lucas Valbuena ran OpenClaw, a popular AI agent platform formerly known as Clawdbot, through a security analysis tool called ZeroLeaks. The results were catastrophic. Using Gemini 3 Pro, the platform scored 2 out of 100 points.
I have a secret: 95% percent of my holiday shopping was completed via Apple Pay. Find something, double-tap, glance at Face ID, done. No forms. No typing. No checkout page.
Amazon announced today that it is closing every Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh store it operates. All 72 of them. The cashierless convenience stores that were supposed to revolutionise shopping. The full-service grocery stores that were going to take on Walmart.
We had set this up months ago and mostly forgotten about it. The bag was running low, and Alexa, connected to an Amazon account with voice purchasing enabled, placed the order without asking. The confirmation email arrived during a meeting.
A 64GB kit of DDR5 memory now costs more than an entire PlayStation 5.