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Monday, September 14, 2026
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Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8

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In the archive

  • Opinion

    The Agent Economy Needs a Bank

    Mastercard, Stripe's Tempo, and Coinbase's x402 protocol built competing payment rails for autonomous agents in 2026, and the transaction counts already published point to one billion machine-initiated payments before 2027 ends.

  • Agent Infrastructure

    Machines With Money: Agent Payments Arrive

    Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, Google, and Coinbase built five competing rails for agent payments inside fifteen months, and their overlapping partner rosters reveal a single converging standard taking shape.

  • Capital & Markets

    What Money Looks Like When Machines Run It

    Tom Lee, Fundstrat's head of research and BitMine's chairman, argues autonomous agents will gravitate toward programmable settlement rails, and Logan Xie and Mark Zalan explain why card networks price machines out of that economy.

  • Web3 × AI

    Agent-Native Money

    Coinbase's x402 protocol, launched in May 2025, and Mastercard's June 2026 Agent Pay for Machines are converging on stablecoin rails built for autonomous agents, with Cloudflare, Stripe, and Circle racing to plug in.