Column on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/column/Recent content in Column on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:42:50 +0000The 71% AI Cost Cut Hiding in Your Harnesshttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-18-founders/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:42:50 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-18-founders/A Berkeley study finds the right &ldquo;harness&rdquo; - the control layer around an AI agent - can cut the cost of the same result by 71% with no accuracy loss, making the harness the primary lever on AI unit economics. Elsewhere: cap-table startup Pulley shutters after raising $50M+, with customers directed to rival Carta; OpenAI tests Sponsored Agents that let users interrogate an ad before visiting your site; and Column ships four new products that collapse global fintech integration into a few API calls. Plus HubSpot&rsquo;s year of AI search experiments and the Zapier CEO&rsquo;s headless tools thesis.House committee advances bill to codify Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reservehttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-18-crypto/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:18:11 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-18-crypto/The House Financial Services Committee advanced the American Reserve Modernization Act, which would codify Trump&rsquo;s 2025 executive order creating a strategic bitcoin reserve and direct Treasury to build a secure storage facility. The SEC granted a 5-year Innovation Exemption for Tokenized Securities Venues, opening compliant Uniswap v4 permissioned pools for tokenized equity trading. Column launched stablecoin, card, and banking products to challenge Erebor, while Kraken&rsquo;s parent Payward will bring Hyperliquid perps to US retail via HIP-3. Allium&rsquo;s new report shows stablecoin payments grew 42% to $401B through August against 6% supply growth.