Happy Thursday.
Quick question: should AI agents have credit cards?
Visa says yes.
Mastercard says yes.
The rest of us are still asking who pays when it panic-buys 400 SaaS tools 😂
Enjoy today's news.
Visa integrates its payment tools into OpenAI's agent system, so AI agents can make purchases with spending limits, merchant controls, and fraud monitoring.
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Mastercard launches Agent Pay for Machines, a payment layer for AI agents to make high-speed, low-value transactions across cards, accounts, and stablecoins.
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LinkedIn’s Creator Marketplace gives brands a searchable way to find B2B creators for sponsored content and creator campaigns.
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The CFTC’s proposed prediction-market rules would allow more sports contracts while limiting bets tied to war, terrorism, assassinations, and easily manipulated outcomes.
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OpenAI is considering lower token prices to win customers from Anthropic, with the strategy reportedly still under discussion.
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Two SpaceX alumni launch Ambrosia Energy to build solar-and-battery power plants for AI data centers, promising cheaper power that can be built faster than natural gas.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for faster AI policymaking and commits $200M to labor-market research and $150M to a national AI fellowship program.
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Former xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin launches River AI, a startup building personal AI that users own and shape around their own values, instead of renting access from the big labs.
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LMNT sues health-rating app Oasis, alleging false safety claims about its electrolyte drink after Oasis previously retracted inflated test results.
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Pinterest adds Amazon Storefronts to creator profiles, making creator-recommended products easier to shop.
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Francis Davidson announces Odessia with $6M from Sequoia, then demos a full Mexico City trip planned in 3 minutes: flights, hotels, itinerary, and booking.
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince joins TBPN to explain why agents now outnumber humans on the web, and what that means for infrastructure, edge inference, and Cloudflare’s VoidZero deal.
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Anthropic’s Thariq reveals how Claude Fable 5 edited its own launch video, using code and tool calls instead of a traditional video editor.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. AI slop of the day: he misunderstood “walk the dog” 😂
