Agent rails consolidate: x402, agent identity, and the week the incumbents stopped apologizing
Coinbase is quietly becoming the payments plumbing for machine commerce just as it files for single-stock perps, while Robinhood leans further into token-launch …
OpenAI's AGI score was a harness, Anthropic formalizes Fermat, and $4T in data center debt
OpenAI claimed GPT-6 Astra hit 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3; the benchmark's own harness scores the same model at 62.7%, a 37-point gap caused entirely by evaluation …
Revolut gets a US charter, Anthropic bulks up to $15B
Revolut cleared the OCC for a national bank charter and plans a $95M Connecticut launch in H1 2027. The same morning, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Google all had …
OpenAI's Astra Enters the Ring as Enterprise AI Splits Across Multiple Fronts
OpenAI's Astra launch signals a shift from chatbots to AI agents that operate software end-to-end. Snowflake's earnings reveal enterprises are actively fleeing …
California taxes SaaS 8 - 10%, AI Mode shows pricier goods, China hands out tokens with dumplings
California signed SB 122 and from January 1, 2027 will apply a 7.25% - 10.75% sales tax to SaaS and AI tools, with the state projecting about $2B a year in …
Liquid Network Freezes After $320M Hack; Solana's Agent Micropayment Test Hits 1M/sec
The Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network went dark over the weekend after roughly 4,000 BTC ($320M) was withdrawn by purported white-hat hackers using the SideSwap …