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MCP gives agents hands. Skills give agents judgement. Most teams are building one and wondering why the other is missing.
OpenAI retreated from Instant Checkout. Shopify stepped in with "agentic storefronts" that let merchants sell directly inside ChatGPT. The template for how AI and commerce platforms divide value is now set.
Five weeks ago, we published The $650 Billion Squeeze. The argument was straightforward. Big Tech was writing checks that rivalled national GDPs to build AI infrastructure.
AI has made it easier than ever to publish. It has not made it easier to publish accurately. So we built a tool to close that gap.
The industry is building rails for AI agents to spend your money. It has not redesigned the system for what happens when those agents get it wrong.
Thousands of professionals are training the models that replaced them. Agentic AI may soon replace them again.
After a string of outages linked to AI-assisted coding, Amazon is pulling the emergency brake on unchecked deployments. The question is whether the guardrails should have been there from the start.
While the world watches chatbots, generative AI is quietly transforming the boring infrastructure that makes commerce work.
Anthropic refused to remove Claude's safety restrictions for military use. The Pentagon classified it as a supply chain risk. Now Microsoft, 37 AI researchers, 22 former military leaders, and civil rights groups have filed briefs in its defence.
Meta announced AI-powered scam detection tools across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger. With 22 billion daily scam exposures across its platforms, the company is shifting from reactive removal to proactive interception.
Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program is not about crypto adoption. It is about who controls the translation layer between on-chain and fiat.
Six weeks ago, Moltbook suffered a catastrophic security breach that exposed 1.5 million API tokens. This week, Meta acquired the team and the concept behind it. The play is agent identity infrastructure for the agentic web.
A federal judge blocked Perplexity's Comet agent from placing orders on Amazon. The ruling lands on platform authority over user delegation, and it could define the rules for every AI shopping agent that follows.
Payments. AI. Commerce. Decoded.
The chipmaker's open-source NemoClaw platform targets enterprise customers burned by OpenClaw's security failures, and it doesn't even require Nvidia hardware to run.
From Revolut to PayPal to Ford, the race for US banking licences has reached a pace not seen in a generation. The question isn't who's applying. It's who's left that isn't.
2M token context, ISO 42001, FedRAMP High, and native Workspace integration. We rate it 4.5/5.
We review xAI Grok's compute, pricing, and enterprise readiness.
We review Cohere's RAG leadership, Model Vault, and enterprise AI strategy.
We review Mistral AI's open-weight models, compliance, and enterprise strategy.
We review the AI platform that Tier 1 banks trust for fraud and AML convergence.
We review the platform trusted by Plaid, Etsy, and DraftKings for BSA/AML.
We review Stripe's Agent Toolkit, Shared Payment Tokens, and Agentic Commerce Suite.
We review Shopify Magic, Sidekick, and Agentic Storefronts for AI-native commerce.