Regulatory formation periods carry a specific economic property: rules are cheaper to influence before they are written than after.
The alignment gap between raw model capability and the safety infrastructure designed to govern it has become the central fault line in a debate now drawing researchers from inside OpenAI and Anthropic.
Tech investors are rediscovering the kind of long-shot, science-fiction-adjacent wagers that helped build Silicon Valley. That appetite for far-edge speculative positioning is returning.
The authorization problem at the center of AI-agent commerce is structural. When a software agent transacts on a user's behalf, the existing card network architecture has no native mechanism