AI Agents
For the last decade, every AI conversation has ended with the same answer: buy more GPUs. More VRAM, more CUDA cores, more power. Training a model? GPUs. Running inference? Also GPUs. Building a multi-agent system that needs to sustain thousands of concurrent reasoning chains? Well, GPUs again, I guess. NVIDIA
AI Agents
This was the week AI agents stopped being a category and started becoming infrastructure. Visa built payment rails for them. Mastercard hired one as a CFO. Anthropic put one on your desktop. Here are the ten stories that mattered. 1. Anthropic Launches Claude Dispatch — Your Desktop Is Now an Employee&
AI Agents
On March 17, Meta's engineering blog dropped a post that most people scrolled past. No flashy product launch, no consumer-facing feature. Just a technical write-up about something called REA — the Ranking Engineer Agent. Here's what REA does: it autonomously generates hypotheses about how to improve Meta&
Future of Work
Last week, Jensen Huang watched an Austrian developer's open-source AI agent platform go viral and called it "definitely the next ChatGPT." Wall Street panicked. Not because OpenClaw was bad — but because it proved something investors had been dreading: AI models are becoming interchangeable. The stock market
Engineering
Last week, Okta's CEO Todd McKinnon called it "our most important product ever." Three days earlier, Microsoft released an end-to-end security framework for agentic AI at RSAC. AWS quietly rolled out Bedrock AgentCore Identity. The IETF published a new draft standard called AIMS. Four announcements. Same
Trends
Block laid off 40% of its workforce last week. Jack Dorsey said the quiet part out loud: "Within the next year, I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion." Atlassian cut 1,600 people — then immediately posted 800 AI-focused roles. Meta is planning to axe
Trends
At NVIDIA GTC last week, Jensen Huang casually described a future where his company operates with 75,000 human employees and 7.5 million AI agents. That's 100 agents for every person. He didn't present it as a thought experiment. He presented it as a plan.
AI Agents
OpenAI just announced they're merging ChatGPT, Codex, and their Atlas browser into a single desktop "superapp." Their VP of Applications, Fidji Simo, admitted in an internal memo that they were "spreading efforts across too many apps and stacks" and needed to simplify. In the
AI Agents
This was the week AI agents stopped being a topic and started becoming infrastructure. NVIDIA went all-in at GTC with a complete agent toolkit. IBM closed an $11 billion acquisition to feed agents real-time data. The US Senate dropped the first serious federal AI framework. And China's two
Business
When Mastercard — a company that processes 175 billion transactions a year — decides to build AI employees for small businesses, you stop calling it a startup idea. On March 10, Mastercard unveiled Virtual C-Suite: a collection of AI agents designed to serve as digital executives for SMBs. The first module is
Business
There are 30 million solopreneurs in the United States. They generate $1.8 trillion in annual revenue. And 81.9% of all U.S. small businesses have zero employees. That last number is the one that matters. The default mode of American business is not the ten-person startup or the
Trends
Somewhere in a data centre right now, an AI agent is placing a bet. Not a metaphorical bet on the future of technology — a real bet, with real money, on a prediction market. And it is probably winning. A CoinDesk investigation published last week found that 14 of the 20