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Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402
Cloudflare’s AI Gateway, Ceramic.ai, Stocktwits, and more are using the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway today to charge agents for access to tokens, APIs, and MCP tools. U.S.-based sellers can now app
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If you read the news headlines these days, you would be forgiven for thinking that the Western labs are getting spawn-camped by Chinese labs en masse. The Distillation Drama Not a week goes by when Anthropic doesn’t release another article on how the Chinese are distilling their models](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/anthropic-accuses-chinese-ai-labs-of-mining-claude-as-us-debates-ai-chip-exports/), becoming a danger to humanity itself](https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-
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Software Goldilocks: the market for software is expanding but is the System of Record dead?
Sam Gerstenzang argues AI expands SaaS spend while splitting value into small opinionated point tools and large full-service “does the work” products—squeezing classic mid-market systems of record from both sides.
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Launching Meta Enterprise Platform
Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Enterprise Platform as a new major business pillar, bringing Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, and Muse Code to enterprises—led by former MongoDB CEO Chirantan “CJ” Desai as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer.
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Owed a billion dollars in NVDA stock
A first-person account of a 1993 NVIDIA stock option grant, a decades-later discovery of a vesting discrepancy, and how the statute of limitations settled it.
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Russell Sechzer on what's missing in agentic commerce: incomplete financial instructions, who authorizes agents, who pays for work that never becomes a purchase, and the invisible costs behind Muse, Instinct, Stripe, Visa, and AP2.
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AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI Compute
AMD announces a definitive agreement to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, bringing spatial AI researchers and models in-house to shape future AI hardware, software, and systems.
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World Labs announces a definitive agreement to join AMD, arguing that scale, reach, and closer hardware partnership are needed to accelerate spatial and physical AI research.
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Three Lessons from the Startup Journey
David Cummings shares three practical lessons from speaking with YPO Next Generation Atlanta about startups: focus, customer obsession, and persistence through ambiguity.
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Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap
Eric Goldman analyzes Kansas v. Snap, where Snap argues it should be treated as a state actor—an unusual posture for a private internet service normally fighting that characterization.
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Arm & SoftBank: Part 1 — Masa comes calling, bearing gifts
Today, something a little different: a joint post in the form of a conversation between Jon Metzler and Babbage.
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Electric Capital open-sources Quest, a safety-first AI harness that keeps sensitive data inside your perimeter unless a user explicitly approves outbound access—Apache 2.0 on GitHub.
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Geocodio explains how a two-person company moved from bash scripts to maintainable internal apps, the system that keeps those tools from rotting, and where they draw the line between building and buying.
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Drew DeVault argues that Hacker News’s culture follows from Y Combinator ownership, founder privileges, and a contested “apolitical” posture—using policy and history to explain why the site feels the way it does.
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Ghost Jobs Report, September 2026
Unlisted finds 28.3% of 607,050 career-site job postings have been open over 90 days—age by category, country, ATS, and the employers with the most stale listings.
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Not Enough Usage vs Price: How to Diagnose Subscription Churn
RevenueCat's Daphne Tideman lays out a four-part habit-loop framework to diagnose 'not enough usage' subscription churn before touching pricing—trigger, action, reward, and value.
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Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
Lexi Pandell’s WIRED investigation of Pangram, the Brooklyn AI-detection startup whose accusations reshaped literary publishing—and the limits of trusting any detector as a career-making authority.
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Waymo announces a Bay Area transit rewards program that pays Waymo Cash when riders connect autonomous trips with public transit using tap-to-pay Visa cards, starting with employees before a public rollout.
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Jev introduces a new shape of LLM—System One, aka Decision Models
Simon Willison reviews TypeSafe AI’s Jev: a cheap, fast decision model that returns calibrated floats for yes/no, choice, and score questions—and why black-box bias and evals matter more than for chat LLMs.
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Arcturus Labs compares OpenAI’s emerging decision-model direction with TypeSafe’s Jev—and asks whether a frontier lab can absorb the System One / structured-decision niche startups are building.
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