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🐙 The 14 pains of billing for AI agents - Arnon Shimoni
(Basically, why the octopus grew new tentacles for agentic billing) A while ago, I wrote about the 14 pains of building your own billing system – that was back when billing was “just” complicated. It got mentioned quite a bit around the internet, and ended up #2 on the front page of Hacker News which […]
AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.
Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.
Robinhood Lets Customers Use AI to Trade Stocks, Make Credit-Card Purchases
The brokerage’s new feature links artificial-intelligence tools to investment and credit-card accounts.
Manus launches paid subscription plans and a mobile app | TechCrunch
Manus, the viral AI agent platform out of China, has launched paid subscription plans, a mobile app, and other upgrades.
Google launches new protocol for agent-driven purchases | TechCrunch
Called the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), the system is meant to be interoperable between AI platforms, payment systems, and vendors.
The Agentic Web and Original Sin
Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.
Visa Partners with OpenAI to Power the Next Generation of AI Commerce
New collaboration brings Visa’s global payment network to one of the largest AI platforms and aims to support seamless, secure transactions and broader AI-powered use cases across commerce environments supported by agents SAN FRANCISCO --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun.
Consumer Reports unveils 'Consumer Finance AI Standard' a first-of-its-kind framework defining what consumers are owed from AI-powered financial products
Washington, DC – Consumer Reports today published the Consumer Finance AI Standard, a first-of-its-kind framework defining the rights, protections, and design practices consumers are owed…
The AI Industry Is Losing
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The 2026 Developer's Guide to Free Google Cloud Credits (For AI & Side Projects)
If you’re a beginner or developer who wants to pursue a career in AI in 2026, you can’t ignore the...
AI Is Too Expensive
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What is RSL? | RSL: Really Simple Licensing
The open content licensing standard for the AI-first Internet
Machines of Buying and Selling Grace - Adam Behrens, New Generation
What would premium or subscription based Feeds look like for AT Protocol? github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/4… That's something I think would be interesting to explore. Maybe a feed could do freemium too, like it'll give you x% of content for free, but by paying it becomes more frequently updated?
Just released a new project: Radial, a coding-agent orchestrator for atproto. It's a bit like a team issue tracker where you run your own agents with a system to capture what your agents learn into durable, reviewable team memory. disnetdev.com/blog/introducing-radial-agent…
Introducing Radial: Agent orchestration on the Atmosphere
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