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Agents are buying more stuff for us humans, but "trust me bro" is not a good system for me (or a merchant) as I ask my bot to handle a growing list of purchases.
We and Google have been working on an open spec to close the gap- it's called Verifiable Intent. (1/6)
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It’s been one weekend but so far the World Cup is following the pattern of every previous World Cup and Olympics: tons of negative stories about infrastructure, costs, people not buying tickets etc and then it starts and it’s amazing
Perfect first tweet on the feed for a Monday morning. Making me think about one or two things I need to be a little more golden retriever about this week.
The most revolutionary thing about AI is that it’s suddenly reasonable to ask a question like “can I learn to do genomics and sequence my own genome in my basement this weekend?” and the answer is very often “yeah why not?”
Guys look Claude helped me - a random guy in his basement - build a wetlab and do vibe genomics!
I sequenced my whole genome despite zero lab experience, without my DNA leaving home!
I put together my notes and a step by step guide here:
vibe-genomics.replit.app
It was a lot easier than I was expecting!
Ultimately I hit ~16x coverage and compared my results against my 600k raw 23andme SNPs, and it held up!
We are building infrastructure flexible enough to extend payments to every agent, even the one running on your Mac Mini.
(Personally this is where I see some of the most compelling agentic commerce use cases emerging!)
BIG NEWS: Your AI agents will soon be able to pay with your existing @Mastercard via lobstercash.
Your card. Your agents. Your rules.
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Reposting late, but I am so excited about the direction of travel for payments on the web. More open, more interoperable. This is the way.
This looks awesome
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Great points (especially when it comes to what consumers actually care about when shopping). But “open” takes on a different timbre in payments versus web / etc., and there are many factors that have driven the success of open or semi-open frameworks in this space. Ideally we can deliver the things buyers & sellers need/want as an open ecosystem.
Full spec & link to repo at verifiableintent.dev
If you're working on these things, I'd love to chat!
You may recognize the name from AP2, and we worked closely with Google to develop that concept into a full spec. It's protocol-agnostic, extensible, and built on established and emerging standards and concepts- each of those three layers is a Selective Disclosure JWT. (5/6)