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Agentic Commerce

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The MAD Podcast with Matt TurckEmily Sands

Stripe's AI Chief: How AI Agents Will Buy, Sell, and Pay

Stripe’s Emily Sands says agentic commerce is moving from theory to production, with protocols, wallets, and real-time billing infrastructure already being built. She also argues that token theft, first-party abuse, and deployment friction are emerging as the key constraints on the AI economy.

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Sharp Tech

(Preview) The Anthropic Saga Continues, Fox and the Future of Streaming, Q&A on ChatGPT, Agentic Shopping, Autonomous Driving

Ben Thompson and Andrew Sharp open with a World Cup hydration-break riff before diving into Anthropic’s export-control fight and what it says about AI security, trust, and government oversight. The rest of the preview ranges from Fox’s Roku deal and ChatGPT competition to agentic shopping, AI-generated vulnerability discovery, and whether autonomous driving can scale beyond today’s constraints.