Over the past few decades, the internet boom has been helping fill the information gap in our society. Online businesses such as those in e-commerce and social media emerged to help the world share information more efficiently, allowing for the digital transformation of traditionally “offline” industries. Despite the many years of effort, however, this digital…
Trustless payment methods were the first disruption blockchain brought to the financial industry. The second wave of disruption came about when the ICO boomed in 2017 as a way to reach a larger market of investors through crowdfunding smart contracts on Ethereum. In 2017 alone, ICOs raised around $7 billion. More recently, we’re seeing the…
Edited June 23, 2019 Key Highlights Dec. 9, 2018 — Gerald Cotten QuadrigaCX CEO dies of complications from Crohn’s disease while in India. Dec. 10, 2018 — Jaipur Police release NOC (No Objection Certificate) to Cotten’s widow, allowing her to return to Canada with the body of her husband. Jan. 2019 — QuadrigaCX announces CEO’s death. It…
A critical remote code execution flaw in OpenCode has been patched. The standard defender toolchain cannot see that. Anomaly, the developer of the open-source AI coding agent that Pillar Security’s report puts at roughly 3 million weekly npm downloads and 211,000 GitHub stars, shipped the fix inside a refactor of browser-launch code on September 28,…
We are currently living through the great shipping gap, a period where the hardware on your desk is moving significantly faster than the software meant to animate it. As noted in The Shipping Month Is Here: What Actually Lands in Your House Before December, and What Ships Without Its Agent, we are essentially placing bets…
OpenAI’s frontier models are coming to Google Cloud. Announced October 21, the deal puts GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna into Google Cloud’s Model Garden, with Codex agentic workflows connecting to Google’s Gemini platform for inference. Enterprises transact through Google Cloud Marketplace: one invoice, existing spend commitments drawn down, usage counting toward Flexible Savings…
In May 2026, Anthropic averaged roughly 2,500 code changes merged per day. By September, that figure had climbed to over 30,000 per day, a 12-fold increase in four months, according to company-reported data. That surge is a structural breaking point, and the company names what broke in its redesigning source control post: coding is no…
Enterprise software vendors are currently locked in a race to the bottom on model costs. Notion, for instance, recently touted its gen-6 agent harness, claiming a 90% reduction in average costs compared to previous models. These vendor-reported benchmarks are compelling, promising that credits will go ten times further as agents move toward 24-hour durable execution.…
The loudest story in agent infrastructure as AGNTCon opens this week is not what arrived, but what remains missing from the ledger. On October 22, 2026, as AGNTCon and MCPCon open in San Jose, the industry faces a fundamental gap: while individual governance stacks are shipping, the connective tissue that would make them interoperable remains…
Two theories of agent identity hit the stage this week, four days apart. The FIDO Alliance closed Authenticate 2026 on October 20 with a wallet-certification announcement that frames identity as something a person carries. AGNTCon and MCPCon open October 22 in San Jose with an agenda that frames identity as something a platform issues. Between…