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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.
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.