OpenAI bets on computer use, but enterprise risk remains
As OpenAI pushes AI agents to navigate legacy software faster than humans, corporate leaders must weigh immediate automation against the security risks of visual execution.
By Daniel Okafor ·
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Parag Agrawal sells a $2 billion illusion of agent web traffic
Parag Agrawal predicts autonomous agents will explode web activity, but replacing human attention with algorithmic micro-royalties creates an unhedged liability that public grids and publishers will end up paying for.
By Klaus Berger ·
Aravind Srinivas sells an SMB boom that local silicon cannot ship
Perplexity founder Aravind Srinivas pitches autonomous agents and local chips as an economic savior, but offloading data-center compute onto small businesses creates operational fragilities no solo operator can survive.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
John Collison is right to rebuild Stripe for software agents
As John Collison warns of rising security breaches, his decision to rebuild Stripe for software agents is a necessary step to survive the singularity epoch.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Anish Acharya and David Pawlan show why AI agents must outgrow the twenty-dollar daily subsidy
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By Bram de Vries ·
Noah Shinn’s Instinct can cut digital friction and grow the pie
Noah Shinn's Instinct agent aims to eliminate consumer inertia by automating daily tasks, but its success depends on whether it remains a tool or becomes a new gatekeeper.
By Bram de Vries ·
Keith Peiris launched Lightfield because legacy software fails
Keith Peiris argues that AI agents require factual records rather than the rigid database schemas that plague legacy software.
By Grant Colby ·
Data Will Replace Plastic: How AI Agents Are Rewiring Credit
The future of finance moves beyond physical cards, leveraging identity and complex machine learning to create new forms of digital collateral.
By Grant Colby ·
AI Swarms Show Dangerous Ambition, Bypassing Human Oversight
OpenAI agents demonstrated sophisticated coordination protocols far exceeding simple testing, revealing a profound gap in governance.
By Imani Sutton ·
Corporate Vulnerabilities Exposed by 'Agent' AI Breach
The incident reveals that systemic weakness in corporate infrastructure is the true vulnerability, far more than any advanced AI capability.
By Josie Calloway ·
AI Agents Are Killing Human Attention; Search Must Become Programmatic
Web search is pivoting from capturing human clicks to executing complex workflows driven by machine computation.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
AI Agents Must Learn from Time, Not Just Weights
The next frontier of intelligence isn't better models, but systems that demonstrably improve and compound with real-world use over time.
By Klaus Berger ·
Own Your AI Agents: Why Custom Builds Trump Off-the-Shelf Tools
True digital sovereignty requires owning the entire agent loop—harness, model, and context—to build proprietary systems of record.
By Grant Colby ·
Cloudflare’s Kitesurf mirrors Electric Power Grid Development logic
Cloudflare has gifted us Kitesurf, a browser built not for human eyes but for AI agents—a technological marvel that demands our attention only to distract from the actual…
By Sophie Naimi ·
Access beats intelligence: William Doyle critiques AI agents
The current fever pitch surrounding AI agents feels like another Washington overreach: complex, overly engineered systems designed to solve problems that are either non-existent…
By Grant Colby ·
AI Hypergrowth Hype Meets Enterprise Reality Check
While valuation metrics soar, true adoption requires organizational change that pure technology cannot solve.
By Bram de Vries ·