Amazon’s new AI wallet: AWS, Coinbase, and Stripe build payment rails for bots

On Thursday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched new payments infrastructure for artificial intelligence agents, built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe. AWS explained that autonomous software agents will be allowed to use stablecoins to purchase APIs, web content, MCP servers, and other online services in real time. However, it added that future versions will eventually…

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Elon Musk called Anthropic ‘evil’ 3 months ago. Now he’s taking $4 billion to become its data landlord

Three months ago, Elon Musk wrote on X that humans are “evil” and “world-weary” and that artificial intelligence laboratories hate Western civilization. On Wednesday, he leased one of his most valuable assets to Anthropic: the world’s largest supercomputer. But lovers of humanity shouldn’t bask in Musk’s newfound praise for too long (even if he does…

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DeFi is not dead, it’s going mainstream with AI agents, crypto executives agree

MIAMI — Decentralized finance (DeFi) is not dead but moving further into the financial mainstream with the rise of artificial intelligence agents and cryptocurrency executives at Consensus Miami 2026 on Thursday. “Cryptocurrencies are definitely entering the mainstream,” said Hunger Horsley, co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management. “Stablecoins, tokenized assets and DeFi are all part…

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