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Agentic commerce

This Week in Startups: 78.4% of tokens on Vercel now go to open source
9 takeaways: why Elon Musk is talking about the hyperloop again, what Amazon is actually defending when it blocks an agent, and the robot-safety…
3 hrs ago • The Scuttlebutt
40–50% will give an agent power of attorney by 2030, says Khosla Ventures' founder
7 predictions: why he says trust and not data is the only durable moat, where a personal agent actually has to live, and the one company he says starts…
3 hrs ago • The Scuttlebutt
Amazon blocks Muse, Meta up 27%, ByteDance stops open-sourcing — TBPN
10 takeaways: why China's best video model is the one it will not release, the $76B ad business behind Amazon's block, and the agent that misspelled a…
4 hrs ago • The Scuttlebutt
We stopped talking to investors and bought $6B of our own stock, says AppLovin's CEO
11 lessons: Why he calls advertising machine learning 1.0, what the buyback did to the share count, and why he thinks agents will not do your shopping…
Sep 21 • The Scuttlebutt
Jess Hertz: 75% of AI-attributed orders came from outside the top 100
13 lessons: The Slack agent that has taken 15M actions in 5 months, why complexity is the moat rather than the problem, and the compensation plan she…
Sep 15 • The Scuttlebutt
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