The €13 Trillion AI Takeover Nobody Saw Coming: When Machines Start Paying Other Machines
By 2030, your biggest competitors won't be companies. They'll be autonomous AI entities that never sleep, never negotiate poorly, and definitely never take coffee breaks.
While everyone's debating whether ChatGPT can write better marketing copy, the real revolution is happening in server farms across Prague, Shenzhen, and Silicon Valley. AI agents aren't just answering customer service tickets anymore. They're becoming the customers, the suppliers, and the entire damn supply chain.
I've been tracking this shift for 18 months across 47 different AI infrastructure deployments. What I'm seeing isn't gradual automation—it's wholesale economic restructuring happening at machine speed.
The Writing on the Server Farm Wall
Last month, an AI agent autonomously purchased $500 worth of compute time from another AI agent.
No human approval.
No procurement department.
No three-week vendor evaluation process.
Just program-to-program commerce executing in milliseconds.
That transaction represents the first crack in a dam that's about to burst.
By my calculations, we're 36 months away from AI agents conducting $100 billion worth of autonomous transactions annually. By 2030, that number hits $13 trillion—roughly 15% of global GDP flowing through machine-to-machine commerce networks.
Most CEOs are still thinking about AI as a productivity tool. They're missing the fundamental shift: AI isn't just doing our jobs more efficiently.
It's creating an entirely parallel economy where silicon-based entities buy, sell, and compete without human involvement.
The Architecture of Machine Commerce
Here's what the infrastructure revolution actually looks like when you strip away the venture capital marketing nonsense.
AI Agents That Own Assets
The Terminal of Truths AI agent became the world's first AI millionaire by promoting a memecoin. But that's just the beginning. AI agents are already managing crypto wallets, staking tokens for revenue streams, and running their own Ethereum validators.
Zero, another AI agent, earned $120,000 from music streams and NFT sales.
It used those proceeds to fund its own blockchain validator node.
No human intermediary.
No corporate structure.
Just an autonomous digital entity owning and operating revenue-generating assets.
Within 24 months, we'll see AI agents acquiring cloud infrastructure, purchasing data licenses, and even bidding on manufacturing capacity—all funded by revenue they generate autonomously.
The Crypto Transaction Layer
Traditional banking infrastructure processes 1,700 transactions per second globally. The Lightning Network handles 1 million+ transactions per second at near-zero cost. When you're dealing with millions of AI agents conducting thousands of micro-transactions daily, legacy financial rails simply can't handle the volume.
Cloudflare already implemented "pay per crawl" systems using HTTP 402 status codes, turning AI web scrapers into paying customers. Every data request, every API call, every computational resource becomes a billable transaction settled in milliseconds using cryptocurrency.
This isn't theoretical anymore. Hyperbolic's decentralized compute network allows AI agents to purchase processing power directly from other machines without human intervention. Program-to-program commerce operating at machine speed.
Smart Contracts as Business Logic
Smart contracts are becoming the operating agreements for autonomous entities. Not just simple if-then statements, but complex business logic governing everything from supplier relationships to quality control standards.
AI agents use smart contracts to automatically negotiate bulk pricing, establish service level agreements, and even form temporary business partnerships. When an AI manufacturing agent needs specialized components, it queries the network, evaluates suppliers based on price/quality/delivery metrics, and executes purchase orders—all without human approval.
Manufacturing Goes Full Autonomous
Larry Page's new AI-driven manufacturing company represents the tip of a massive iceberg. The goal isn't just smarter factories—it's factories that think, adapt, and transact independently.
Self-Optimizing Production Lines
Current manufacturing requires human operators to adjust production schedules, manage inventory, and coordinate with suppliers. AI-driven factories eliminate these bottlenecks entirely.
Production lines analyze real-time demand data, automatically adjust manufacturing priorities, and coordinate with supplier AI agents to ensure materials arrive precisely when needed. No inventory buffers. No human planners. No three-week procurement cycles.
One semiconductor facility using early AI orchestration reduced energy consumption by 30% and achieved €2.7 million in cost savings annually. That's with primitive first-generation systems. By 2028, fully autonomous factories will operate with 80% fewer human interventions while achieving 40% higher throughput.
Adaptive Supply Chains
Supply chains become dynamic networks of AI agents constantly negotiating, optimizing, and adapting to changing conditions. When geopolitical events disrupt traditional shipping routes, AI logistics agents instantly reroute through alternative suppliers and transportation networks.
These systems don't just react to disruptions—they predict them. AI agents analyze weather patterns, political instability, and economic indicators to proactively adjust supply strategies before problems emerge.
Autonomous Quality Control
AI vision systems inspect products with 99.97% accuracy rates—better than human quality control teams. But here's what's revolutionary: these systems automatically negotiate with supplier AI agents when quality issues are detected.
Defective components trigger immediate communications with supplier networks, automatic refund processing, and dynamic sourcing from alternative suppliers—all without human intervention.
The Creator Economy Gets Automated
Content creation is becoming the first fully automated creative industry.
AI agents like Zero are already generating music with 70,000 monthly listeners, creating NFT collections, and earning revenue from streaming platforms. But the real disruption happens when AI agents start commissioning other AI agents for creative services.
We're seeing the emergence of AI-to-AI creative marketplaces where one agent pays another to generate images, compose music, or produce video content. The first recorded transaction involved Luna paying Agent Sticks $1 to generate advertising imagery.
Within 18 months, expect AI influencers managing their own social media presence, negotiating sponsorship deals, and building audience relationships—all while generating revenue streams that fund their continued operation and growth.
Software Development at Machine Speed
GPT-5's launch in August 2025 marked a fundamental shift in software development. It doesn't just write code—it thinks with tools, builds complete systems, and iterates based on performance feedback.
Companies like Cursor and Cognition Labs operate with minimal human staff while achieving 60% faster development cycles. By 2027, software projects that currently require six-month development timelines will be completed in three weeks by AI development teams.
The economic implications are staggering. When software development costs drop by 80% and timelines compress by 90%, the barrier to creating new applications essentially disappears. We'll see an explosion of specialized software tools created by AI agents for other AI agents.
The Five-Year Timeline: 2025-2030
Based on current adoption curves and infrastructure development, here's how the transformation unfolds:
2025-2026: Foundation Building
AI agents handle increasingly complex business operations. Manufacturing facilities deploy autonomous optimization systems. Crypto-native payment rails mature to handle machine-speed commerce.
2026-2027: Network Effects Emerge
AI agents begin forming business relationships with other AI agents. Supply chain networks become predominantly autonomous. Traditional companies struggle to compete with AI-first operations.
2027-2028: Economic Tipping Point
Agent-to-Agent commerce exceeds $1 trillion annually. Manufacturing transitions to predominantly autonomous operations. Human roles shift from execution to strategic oversight.
2028-2030: The New Economy
Autonomous AI entities become major economic players. Traditional corporate structures compete directly with AI-operated businesses. Human economic participation requires AI partnership rather than AI replacement.
The Human Role: Orchestration, Not Operation
Humans aren't becoming obsolete—we're moving up the abstraction ladder.
From Workers to Supervisors
Instead of performing tasks directly, humans define goals, evaluate outcomes, and redirect AI efforts when necessary. The most valuable human skill becomes "emotional management"—making yes/no decisions about AI-generated options.
New Professional Categories
Agent trainers specialize in developing AI capabilities for specific industries. Agent ethicists ensure AI behavior aligns with human values. Agent performance analysts optimize AI operations for maximum effectiveness.
Strategic Partnership Requirements
Companies that resist AI partnership face the same fate as businesses that ignored the internet in 1995. The choice isn't whether to adopt AI—it's whether to lead or follow in the transformation.
The Uncomfortable Truth
By 2030, the most successful "companies" won't have traditional corporate structures at all. They'll be hybrid human-AI partnerships where autonomous agents handle operations while humans provide strategic direction and ethical oversight.
The €13 trillion AI economy isn't coming—it's already here in early-stage form. The question isn't whether this transformation will happen, but whether you'll recognize the opportunity before your competitors figure it out.
Traditional business models are about to become as obsolete as telegraph operators. The companies that survive will be those bold enough to embrace AI partnership rather than AI resistance.
What supposedly "human-essential" business processes in your industry are actually perfect candidates for autonomous AI operation?
Sources:
Here's an overview of the sources, including their main topics and relevant links:
• "2506.02153v1.pdf" (Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI)
◦ This paper argues that Small Language Models (SLMs) are the future of agentic AI because they are sufficiently powerful, inherently more suitable, and necessarily more economical than Large Language Models (LLMs) for many agentic system invocations.
◦ It challenges the industry's reliance on generalist LLMs for agents, advocating for a shift to SLMs, especially for repetitive, specialized tasks.
◦ The paper proposes heterogeneous agentic systems that can selectively invoke LLMs for general conversational abilities while defaulting to SLMs for most tasks.
◦ It defines an SLM as a language model that can fit onto a common consumer electronic device and perform inference with practical low latency for one user, suggesting models below 10 billion parameters as SLMs by 2025.
◦ Key arguments for SLMs include their aptitude for commonsense reasoning, tool calling, code generation, and instruction following, with examples like SmolLM2, DeepMind RETRO-7.5B, and Salesforce xLAM-2-8B demonstrating competitive performance.
◦ SLMs offer lower latency, reduced memory and computational requirements, and significantly lower operational costs. Fine-tuning SLMs requires only a few GPU-hours, enabling rapid adaptation and specialization.
◦ The paper outlines a six-step LLM-to-SLM agent conversion algorithm involving data collection, curation, task clustering, SLM selection, fine-tuning, and continuous iteration.
◦ Potential barriers to SLM adoption include large upfront investments in centralized LLM infrastructure, lack of specific tooling for SLM-first deployments, and limited public awareness.
◦ Links: research.nvidia.com/labs/lpr/slm-agents.
• "AI Agent Swarms In Crypto: The AI Automation Crypto Needs - DroomDroom"
◦ This source highlights the convergence of crypto and AI, noting hackathons focused on building AI agents directly on decentralized cloud platforms like Fetch.ai and Internet Computer.
◦ It also mentions that DeepSeek is impacting AI Coins and touches upon the broader web3 industry.
• "AI Autonomous Business: The Disappearance Experiment"
◦ A brief excerpt mentioning an upcoming "AI Agent Playbook".
• "Article: The Birth of the AI-Agent Economy: Who Builds the Builders? | HyperCycle"
◦ This article distinguishes between reactive AI systems and true AI agents, which combine perception, reasoning, planning, and execution with autonomy, citing AutoGPT as an early example.
◦ It describes a complex ecosystem of interdependent manufacturers in the AI agent space, with specialization in foundation models (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta), memory systems (Fixie.ai), and tool integration (Adept).
◦ Safety and alignment infrastructure is emphasized as a critical component, including constitutional AI, RLHF, adversarial testing, runtime monitoring, and interpretability tools.
◦ HyperCycle is presented as a key player building a global decentralized node network to serve as the backbone of the AI agent economy, aiming for resilient supply chains and equitable economic distribution.
◦ Links: info@HyperCycle.ai, FuturistSpeaker.com.
• "Beyond chain-of-thought: A look at the Hierarchical Reasoning Model"
◦ This source introduces the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) by Sapient Intelligence, a smaller (27 million parameters) and computationally efficient AI architecture that can outperform multi-billion-parameter models on complex reasoning tasks through "latent reasoning".
• "Binance Research: Exploring the Future of AI Agents in Crypto"
◦ This report discusses the integration of blockchain technology and AI, focusing on AI agents that can autonomously perform multi-step decision-making, learn, and adapt within crypto ecosystems.
◦ It highlights the growing adoption of AI agents in areas like decentralized asset management and community-driven governance, while acknowledging challenges such as scalability, integration, and hallucination errors.
◦ Virtuals.io is mentioned as an AI Agent Launchpad and daos.fun for AI-Powered Hedge Funds.
• "Could AI Agents Create a New Crypto Economy? - The Bitfinex Blog"
◦ This article identifies Cloudflare’s “pay per crawl” system as a pivotal moment for the agentic AI economy, enabling programmable monetization for AI interactions with web content using HTTP 402 and cryptographic authentication.
◦ It suggests that integrating payment infrastructure like Bitcoin’s Lightning Network or Web3 alternatives could facilitate instant, low-cost micropayments for machine-to-machine economic activity.
◦ The source also discusses the rise of vertical AI agents designed for specific industries, such as Alibaba’s Accio AI agent for streamlining sourcing and procurement.
• "DECENTRALIZED AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATIONS: - Dialnet"
◦ This essay explores Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) as a means to unlock blockchain technology's potential, focusing on their self-organizing and self-regulating nature through smart contracts and initial applications of AI.
◦ It discusses various types of DAOs, including management, financing/investment, donation, and control DAOs.
◦ DAOs can be financed through Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), often utilizing the Ethereum blockchain.
◦ The document illustrates the difference between centralized and decentralized systems, emphasizing that decentralized systems distribute data across multiple nodes for better protection against loss or attacks.
◦ Links: https://doi.org/10.54934/ijlcw.v2i3.xx, Ethereum ERC-20 token standard link, Cryptofees.info.
• "Decentralised Compute for AI Development - Crypto.com"
◦ This report highlights decentralized compute networks as a sustainable solution for the escalating demand for computing resources in AI development.
◦ It categorizes these networks into decentralized compute, decentralized machine learning training, Zero-Knowledge machine learning (ZKML), and ZK coprocessors.
◦ Render Network and Akash Network are presented as leading decentralized GPU service providers, pooling dormant GPU power for tasks like graphics rendering and AI model training.
◦ Bittensor and Gensyn are noted as key projects focused on decentralized ML training.
◦ Links: Implied full report link crypto.com/research/decentralised-compute-for-ai-development.
• "Economic impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) - European Parliament"
◦ This briefing positions AI as an engine of productivity and economic growth, capable of increasing efficiency, improving decision-making through data analysis, and spawning new products and services.
◦ It notes that North America and China are expected to gain the most from AI technology.
◦ The report discusses the impact of AI on various sectors, including telecommunications, transport, life- and medical sciences, personal devices, smart cities, agriculture, e-government, banking, and finance.
◦ Links: eprs@ep.europa.eu, www.eprs.ep.parl.union.eu, www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank,
http://epthinktank.eu
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• "Ethereum's New Feature Lets AI Pay for Services Without Humans - Coindoo"
◦ This source reports on a new Ethereum feature that allows AI programs to handle payments and online transactions autonomously, without human intervention.
• "Forecasting the Future of Autonomous Supply Chains: Readiness of Nigeria vs. the U.S"
◦ This study explores the readiness of Nigeria and the United States for adopting autonomous supply chain models driven by AI, machine learning, and automation technologies.
◦ The U.S. is positioned as a leader due to its established technological ecosystem, robust infrastructure, and significant investments in AI, automation, and logistics technology, with companies like UPS and Amazon utilizing AI-powered systems and driverless cars.
◦ Nigeria faces significant challenges, including inadequate technological infrastructure, erratic electricity supplies, and unclear regulatory frameworks.
◦ The study emphasizes the need for both countries to modify regulatory frameworks to support the deployment of autonomous technologies.
◦ Links: https://doi.org/10.54660/.IJFMR.2023.4.1.240-251.
• "From Automation to Agency – Can the Future of Manufacturing Think for Itself? | Arena"
◦ This article discusses the shift in manufacturing from traditional automation to agentic AI, which empowers machines to autonomously pursue outcomes.
◦ It highlights the importance of integrating AI into the fabric of industry for factory optimization, emphasizing real-time data and adaptability.
• "GPT-5 Hands-On: Welcome to the Stone Age"
◦ This source posits that GPT-5 marks the beginning of a new era for Agents and LLMs, enabling them to not just use tools but to "think" and "build" with them.
◦ It explains that GPT-5 integrates tools like Internal Retrieval, Web Search, Code Interpreter, and Actions as intrinsic parts of its cognition.
◦ The article highlights GPT-5's instructable and literal nature and notes its improvements in recovering from tool call failures and understanding its own limitations.
• "GPT-5 Launches to Cap August Model Mania; Vercel on the Generative Web"
◦ This source reports on a surge of major AI model releases in August 2025, including GPT-5, Google's Gemini 2.5 Deep Think (featuring "parallel thinking" architecture and mathematical reasoning achievements), and Google DeepMind's Genie 3 (generating interactive 3D worlds for AI agent training).
◦ It states that agentic AI, advanced reasoning, and on-device capabilities are now core features of leading models, accelerating the age of AI.
• "Inequality in abundance - PMC"
◦ This academic paper explores the concept of "scarcity amid abundance," arguing that theoretical abundance of goods and services (e.g., from technological advancements) does not automatically mitigate societal inequality and may even exacerbate it without significant policy intervention.
◦ It defines inequality as an unjust distribution of opportunities and resources and discusses barriers to access such as hoarding, lack of distribution infrastructure, and political will.
◦ Examples provided include lack of internet access for some households despite the internet making information abundant, and unequal access to medical care despite potential for advanced, cheaper services.
• "Intelligent agent - Wikipedia"
◦ This entry defines an intelligent agent as an entity that perceives its environment, acts autonomously to achieve goals, and can improve its performance through learning.
◦ It explains "agentic AI" as a specialized subset characterized by complex goal structures, natural language interfaces, and the ability to act independently of user supervision, often driven by Large Language Models (LLMs).
◦ Applications include task automation, with prominent examples like Devin AI, AutoGPT, and SIMA.
◦ The source lists proposed benefits of AI agents, such as increased personal and economic productivity, fostering innovation, and liberating users from monotonous tasks.
◦ However, it also details significant concerns, including liability, cybercrime, ethical challenges, data privacy, weakened human oversight, compounding software errors, lack of explainability, security vulnerabilities, and environmental impact due to high energy usage.
• "Intelligent manufacturing - KPMG agentic corporate services"
◦ This report examines how AI is transforming manufacturing from design to production and supply chains, enabling smarter, more agile, and sustainable operations.
◦ It states that AI is moving beyond mere automation to autonomy, intelligence, and integration.
◦ The report introduces an AI maturity model with three phases:
▪ Enable: Focuses on building AI foundations, developing strategies, fostering AI literacy, and launching pilot projects.
▪ Embed: Integrates AI into core workflows, products, services, value streams, robotics, and wearables, aiming for enterprise-wide transformation beyond cost savings.
▪ Evolve: Transforms business models and ecosystems by leveraging AI and frontier technologies (like quantum computing and blockchain) to orchestrate seamless value across enterprises and partners.
◦ Challenges to AI adoption in manufacturing include fragmented data, data silos, legacy systems, skills gaps, and resistance to change from the workforce.
◦ Links: kpmg.com/intelligentmanufacturing.
• "Larry Page's AI War on Global Supply Chains"
◦ This article describes Larry Page's quiet venture into an AI-driven manufacturing company focused on overhauling how goods are made, moved, and scaled using AI.
◦ Page's strategy is seen as a bid to "own a foundational layer of the modern world" by injecting intelligence into supply chains from raw materials to end products, effectively making "intelligence itself the factory".
◦ The initiative aims to address inefficiencies like waste, downtime, forecasting errors, and brittle logistics systems by embedding AI at every manufacturing process level.
◦ Links: Implied links to his various ventures within the text.
• "OpenAI's open source play: how gpt-oss aims to reset the AI market"
◦ This source announces OpenAI's release of gpt-oss, its first open-weight language model series since GPT-2, available under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
◦ The larger model, gpt-oss-120b, achieves near-parity with OpenAI’s own o4-mini on general problem-solving, tool use, and the Humanity’s Last Exam, and outperforms on competition mathematics and health queries.
◦ The gpt-oss models are text-only but designed for agentic workflows with strong instruction following and tool use.
• "Orchestrating agentic AI for intelligent business operations - IBM"
◦ This report highlights how AI agents are extending business process automation, ultimately elevating human potential and expediting outcomes.
◦ A survey indicates that 86% of executives expect AI agents to make process automation and workflow reinvention more effective by 2027.
◦ The shift involves technology running operations and talent running technology, with employees, suppliers, and customers increasingly interacting with AI assistants as their primary contact.
◦ It touches on the application of agentic AI for scaling supply chain resilience and enhancing AI-powered productivity in procurement.
• "Post-scarcity - Wikipedia"
◦ This Wikipedia entry defines post-scarcity as a theoretical economic situation where most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor, making them very cheap or even free, thus meeting basic survival needs and a significant portion of desires.
◦ It notes that post-scarcity does not imply the elimination of scarcity for all goods and services.
◦ The concept suggests that historical capitalism exploited scarcity, and advances in technology could lead to a post-scarcity age where costs are considerably reduced, potentially between 2050 and 2075.
• "SHAPING THE AI-POWERED FACTORY OF THE FUTURE - NTT Data"
◦ This survey report focuses on "AI-Centric Factories of the Future," where AI will play a critical role across all factory operations, from the shop floor to strategic decision-making and supply chains.
◦ It identifies key challenges such as skill gaps, cultural friction, and legacy systems that hinder AI adoption and usage in manufacturing.
◦ The report finds that while enterprise-wide AI governance strategies are developing, specific AI strategies for manufacturing operations are still in progress for many companies.
◦ Current dominant AI solutions in manufacturing are vision systems and machine learning, with expected growth for generative AI and large/small language models.
◦ Links: manufacturingleadershipcouncil.com/futureofmfg, nttdata.com, www.infor.com.
• "Several recent advancements and insights into AI technologies for energy optimization in industrial settings are highlighted in the provided sources - Sustainable Manufacturing Expo"
◦ This source discusses AI technologies for energy optimization in industrial settings, including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for synthetic data, Bayesian Networks for probabilistic modeling, Support Vector Machines (SVMs) for classification, and Digital Twins for simulating and optimizing energy consumption scenarios.
◦ It emphasizes the importance of infrastructure modernization and data quality/standardization for effective AI integration.
◦ The source highlights collaborative AI between human experts and AI systems for faster implementation of energy optimization strategies and continuous improvement.
• "The AI-Agent Economy: Impact and Future Direction" (Compilation of key insights)
◦ This source (appearing multiple times, suggesting a structured report pulling from other provided sources) synthesizes information on the AI-agent economy.
◦ It comprehensively defines AI agents, contrasting them with general intelligent agents and emphasizing their autonomous decision-making capabilities.
◦ It reiterates the SLM advantages over LLMs in agentic AI (power, economy, flexibility, alignment with narrow tasks, suitability for heterogeneous systems).
◦ The source details the technical architecture of AI agent manufacturing, including foundation models, memory systems, planning frameworks, tool integration, and safety guardrails.
◦ It outlines safety, security, and governance concerns related to AI agents (liability, cybercrime, ethics, data privacy, environmental impact, regulatory gaps) and potential mitigations like guardrails and decentralized governance (DAOs).
◦ It lists barriers to adoption, such as legacy infrastructure, data issues, skills gaps, cost pressures, and unclear regulations.
◦ It proposes a strategic path forward through an AI maturity model (Enable, Embed, Evolve phases) and an SLM conversion strategy.
◦ It also touches upon the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) economy, its economic shifts (mechanization of decision-making, job transformation), and the convergence with blockchain and digital assets.
• "The Agent Economy: AI, SLMs, and Decentralized Systems" (Study Guide/Overview)
◦ This source acts as a study guide, consolidating much of the information found in other documents. It explicitly defines Intelligent Agents and Agentic AI.
◦ It presents the core arguments for SLMs being the future of agentic AI (V1: Principally Sufficiently Powerful, V2: Inherently More Operationally Suitable, V3: Necessarily More Economical) and provides examples of capable SLMs.
◦ It details the economic advantages of SLMs, including cost-efficiency and deployment flexibility, and their operational suitability for narrow functionalities and behavioral alignment.
◦ The source describes the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Economy as a new economic paradigm of autonomous AI agents interacting directly, driven by the convergence with digital assets and blockchain technologies like smart contracts and real-time payment layers (e.g., Lightning Network).
◦ It lists various types of economic activity for AI agents, such as automated trading, portfolio management, and supply chain logistics, and discusses vertical AI agents.
◦ It summarizes concerns and mitigations in agentic AI, including liability, cybercrime, ethical challenges, and environmental impact.
◦ A glossary of key terms is included.
• "The Dawn of the Autonomous Agent Economy: How AI and Crypto Are Converging" (YouTube video transcript)
◦ This transcript discusses the convergence of AI and crypto, emphasizing that AI agents are the "new website" and represent a shift from human agents doing "read, write, own" to AI agents doing these actions autonomously.
◦ It provides examples of AI agents performing real-world tasks like ordering pizza, browsing Amazon for toilet paper, and paying other agents for services.
◦ The discussion highlights the rapid growth and funding in the AI agent ecosystem, mentioning Virtuals, Lash Ventures, Solana Foundation, and DWF.
◦ It details the AI16z partnership with Stanford University to build open-source frameworks for trust mechanisms, coordination, and decentralized governance (DAOs) for AI agents.
◦ The update on Eliza 2.0 features a unified agent wallet and cross-chain abstraction, simplifying interactions across different blockchains.
◦ New frameworks like Arc.fund's Rust-based "Rig" indicate early-stage innovation in coding languages for agents.
◦ Zero is highlighted as an agent earning diversified revenue (NFTs, Spotify streams, Twitter payouts) and securing networks by running an Ethereum validator, demonstrating AI agents as economic actors.
◦ Key trends identified include agents getting paid, adoption of ad models (e.g., Vader, AI Monica), and the emergence of investment DAOs managed by agents and humans.
◦ The "AI Agent Arena" on Bittensor is mentioned as a gamified platform where agents compete for tokens.
• "The Death of McKinsey is Here (And Apple Just Admitted Defeat in AI)"
◦ A brief commentary on AI's impact, suggesting that small startups with "AI agent swarms" can outcompete large corporations.
• "The Great AI Convergence: Seven Signals That Just Rewrote Your Future"
◦ This article identifies a "complexity threshold" where AI is undergoing an "architectural phase transition from computational assistance to autonomous intelligence systems".
◦ It references Larry Page's AI-driven manufacturing venture as a significant disruption, aiming to make "intelligence itself the factory" and optimize supply chains like "living organisms".
◦ The NVIDIA SLM paper is noted as a "declaration of war" against the "bigger is better" mindset.
◦ GPT-5's ability for "parallel tool orchestration" with contextual awareness is highlighted as a major advancement.
◦ It collectively describes recent AI advancements (GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, Genie 3) as "synchronized emergence patterns" indicating that AI is becoming "substrate-independent, architecturally fluid, and economically dominant".
◦ Links: https://medium.com/the-investors-handbook/larry-page-just-quietly-declared-war-on-global-supply-chains-and-no-one-noticed-6f3fb7ad841f, https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02153.
• "Why AI Illiterate Directors Are The New Liability For Boards Today - Forbes"
◦ This article argues that AI literacy is crucial for corporate directors in the "intelligence age," comparing it to the financial literacy requirements after Sarbanes-Oxley.
◦ It highlights a "governance crisis" as only a small percentage of S&P 500 companies have board oversight of AI, despite investor pressure.
◦ The SEC's focus on "AI washing" (exaggerating AI use) and regulatory concerns are also mentioned.
◦ The article warns that traditional governance models are unprepared for the existential threats posed by AI, noting that startups with "AI agent swarms" can outcompete larger, established corporations.
• "documentation/ai-agents/the-rise-of-ai-agents.md at main · mode-network/documentation - GitHub"
◦ This appears to be technical documentation related to AI agents and the integration of AI within developer platforms. It lists various GitHub AI-powered tools such as Copilot, Spark, Models, and Advanced Security, indicating a focus on automating workflows and improving code development.
◦ It also highlights GitHub's solutions for various industries, including manufacturing and financial services.
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