Did an authorized human intend this specific action? We've found engineering teams are asking themselves this question more and more nowadays as agents open PRs, call APIs, and trigger deploys. To solve this, we built Voight-Kampff: a proof-of-human intent layer, where a simple macOS Touch ID tap on your laptop can verify you. Learn more:

The $0.001 Payment No Human Would Ever Make: Ex-Stripe MPP Co-Author on Agent Payments and Tempo Shoal Signal Ep. 17 with @brendan_j_ryan, MPP co-author at @tempo, hosted by @zaddycoin We cover the checkout form agents will never load, why micropayments finally work once a CPU clicks OK, the Lisbon hotel week that produced MPP, why payments will never be unified, and the endgame where users pay over crypto rails without knowing it. 0:00 Checkout without the payment form 2:25 From Kubernetes to payments 4:37 Why payments will never be unified 11:25 No single payment method wins 15:16 Collapsing checkout into a protocol 18:12 Why pay-per-article finally works 20:47 Writing MPP in a Lisbon hotel 24:54 Hunting the killer use case 27:25 Turning rate limits into prices 29:50 Scrape once, serve a million times 35:05 Making 402 an official standard 40:48 Cloudflare and AWS flip the switch 42:32 Users never see the crypto rails 46:14 What finance looks like in five years 48:55 Two books on surfing entropy

Announcing Centaur 2.0! Centaur is frontier, agentic infrastructure that you own. Centaur is like Claude Tag, but open source and on steroids. Centaur 2.0 can connect to everything you have access to, and can reason over it next to where you work, either in Slack, Discord, Teams or in your local Codex or Claude Code via an MCP. But context isn't useful if it can be accessed by anyone, so we rebuilt Centaur from the ground up for security. Centaur obviously doesn't have access to secrets because we're leveraging egress proxies. Centaur 2.0 takes that a step further enabling administrators to configure who can access what from where. This means that Centaur can have access to private information that you normally wouldn't feel comfortable giving it access to (e.g. DMs or sensitive channels and docs) but only expose it to authorized principals. It also means you can add Centaur to external channels and leverage it as a virtual colleague that doesn't live only in your Slack, for example, but also your Slack Connect channels! This is extremely powerful as we start moving to a world where agents cross organizational boundaries. Also in case anyone's wondering, yes we rewrote it in Rust! Centaur is now way way more stable at durably executing threads, and its workflow engine is now based on Absurd. We have been operating Centaur since January, officially launched and Open Sourced it in May, and now we're full speed towards making it the #1# open source agentic infrastructure. To succeed at that, I'm thrilled to welcome @mslipper to the @paradigm team who will be leading all our Applied AI work, while continuing to maintain and extend Iron Proxy as the leading secure secret access for agents. Welcome Matt, it's an honor after all these years of knowing you! Read the full blogpost below, and apply to join our team!

Exa is now live on the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), the open standard from @tempo and @stripe. Agents shouldn't need accounts or API keys to search the web! With MPP, agents can pay per request with USDC.e on Tempo.

More businesses can now accept stablecoin payments from agents with MPP and x402. Available in: United States 🇺🇸 · France 🇫🇷 · Germany 🇩🇪 · Spain 🇪🇸 · Italy 🇮🇹 · Netherlands 🇳🇱 · Belgium 🇧🇪 · Ireland 🇮🇪 · Sweden 🇸🇪 · Poland 🇵🇱 · Denmark 🇩🇰 · Romania 🇷🇴 · Portugal 🇵🇹 · Austria 🇦🇹 · Finland 🇫🇮 · Czech Republic 🇨🇿 · Hungary 🇭🇺 · Greece 🇬🇷 · Lithuania 🇱🇹 · Bulgaria 🇧🇬 · Croatia 🇭🇷 · Slovenia 🇸🇮 · Estonia 🇪🇪 · Latvia 🇱🇻 · Cyprus 🇨🇾 · Luxembourg 🇱🇺 · Malta 🇲🇹