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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.
Pagos expands its MCP server so merchants can query transaction data, approval rates, and fee breakdowns through Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. It is the first payments company to ship AI-native data access at scale.
Etsy offloads Depop to eBay for $1.2 billion and bets everything on agentic AI. Orders from ChatGPT already skew higher value than mature acquisition channels.
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?"
OpenAI charges 4 percent. But the real cost of agentic commerce runs much deeper than a single line item.
Five protocols from five trillion-dollar companies, all shipping within weeks of each other. The race to own the trust layer for non-human buyers has started.
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.
Frank Bisignano built the infrastructure that processes 44 percent of America's card payments. Now he is restructuring the agency that collects $5.1 trillion in taxes. The playbook is familiar. The stakes are not.
OpenAI and Anthropic shipped agent management platforms within hours of each other. The message is clear: stop talking to AI and start managing it.