The agent-payment protocols are free, and the open ones carry almost no money. The return sits with whoever issues the agent's credential and writes the rule for who eats a bad payment, mostly card networks and issuers, and with whoever owns the shopper's attention.

A ground-truth read on the fuel, the generation, and the equipment behind the AI build-out: what's physically available, where the constraints exist, and where capital can earn a return

A follow-up on Conrad, my autonomous GTM agent. This round he learned to grade his own work, run his own A/B tests, and rewrite his own playbook when the numbers slip. Here is what I built, what broke, and what I want to try next.