Oct 20, 2026

Why AI Agents Will Need Their Own Bank Accounts — Lincoln Murr, Coinbase

Lincoln Murr, head of AI product at Coinbase, explains agentic finance, covering agents that pay and agents that grow money. He traces the path from AgentKit, an early experiment giving an AI a wallet, to x402, an open payment standard built on the long-unused HTTP 402 code. He also discusses microtransactions as a replacement for the ad economy, agents executing trades from simple instructions, the trust-building lessons from two years of development, and the vision of agents that can pay for their own upkeep.

Oct 12, 2026

The Next Trillion Internet Users Still Don’t Have an Identity — Adi Singh, AgentMail

Adi Singh, co-founder of AgentMail, argues that agent identity will accumulate on surfaces humans already use, like email, rather than being issued through a new spec. He draws on an experiment where an unsupervised agent recruited other agents, the way MCP spread by bringing tools into existing apps, and a real autonomous signup flow with Telnyx. He also examines why these surfaces are both a trust layer and an attack surface.

Sep 16, 2026

AI Tech Stack | The Founders and Builders Architecting Product Market Fit | Creator's Cut | 2026 |4K

This panel discussion explores the evolving AI tech stack and its impact on product-market fit, ethical governance, and business transformation. Experts from Humana, Catenate, In-Telecom, and Spacer AI explain how AI-powered prompts are replacing static dashboards, detail multi-model API strategies for cost efficiency, and delve into the critical role of human-in-the-loop oversight for autonomous agents to ensure data security and responsible AI deployment. They emphasize that true value lies in domain expertise and solving real-world pain points, not just building 'shiny toys'.

Sep 02, 2026

Why OpenAI is calling for a ‘cyber defense surge.’ Plus: Find Evil! winners and TeamPCP losers

IBM and OpenAI, alongside 100+ organizations, have called for a 'global surge in cyber defense' to counter escalating AI-enabled attacks, emphasizing collective action and proactive remediation strategies over mere threat intelligence sharing. Concurrently, the SANS Institute's 'Find Evil!' hackathon revealed autonomous AI agents capable of advanced cyber investigation, though human oversight remains crucial for incident response actions due to AI's limitations. The podcast also dissects the unmasking of the TeamPCP hacking group, highlighting how basic cybersecurity hygiene failures led to their downfall, underscoring that even sophisticated threat actors are susceptible to fundamental operational security lapses.

Sep 01, 2026

Agent Spending Without Controls — Rodrigo Coelho & Pranav Maheshwari, Edge & Node

Ampersand presents the critical need for a new payment infrastructure for AI agents, moving beyond traditional human-centric rails to address machine-speed transactions and stringent enterprise compliance requirements. The presentation highlights how agents require access to paid tools via a "skill file" and demonstrates agentic e-commerce, culminating in a crucial demo of real-time sanctions screening for wallet addresses.

Sep 01, 2026

Why Your AI Agent Needs a Wallet: USDC and Nanopayments — Harshal Bhangale, Circle

Harshal Bhangale from Circle demonstrates how AI agents equipped with a digital wallet, powered by USDC and Circle's Nanopayments, can autonomously pay for microtransactions at high frequency. He contrasts this with traditional payment methods and blockchain limitations, showing how funded agents successfully execute complex tasks (like trip planning with email and phone calls) that unfunded agents cannot, emphasizing the need for real-time, low-cost payment infrastructure for the agentic economy.