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🧠 The Token Economy pt2: The Intelligence Company Gets Built

May 17, 2026

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16 min read

🧠 The Token Economy pt2: The Intelligence Company Gets Built

Some companies are rebuilding themselves around AI. Everyone else is waiting for a lab, vendor, owner, or competitor to do it to them.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 The Token Economy: Tokenmaxxing Is Stupid Until It Isn’t

May 10, 2026

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18 min read

🧠 The Token Economy: Tokenmaxxing Is Stupid Until It Isn’t

Meta engineers burned 60 trillion AI tokens in 30 days. Anthropic has compressed product cycles from months to days. Meanwhile, nearly 90% of firms say AI has had no impact on productivity or employment.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 AI at the Checkout > AI Checkout

May 3, 2026

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14 min read

🧠 AI at the Checkout > AI Checkout

This is the first moment agentic commerce has anything close to a Schelling point. Plus; Mercury got its OCC conditional approval.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🤖 Revolut Built a Foundation Model for Money

Apr 26, 2026

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17 min read

🤖 Revolut Built a Foundation Model for Money

Plus; $16bn withdrawn from Aave in a "run on DeFi" after KelpDAO hack, and Plaid's annual letter.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🤖 Ramp Cracked Enterprise AI. Here’s The Playbook

Apr 19, 2026

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13 min read

🤖 Ramp Cracked Enterprise AI. Here’s The Playbook

Plus; Amex's liability model for agentic commerce & Revolut's foundation model for banking

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Poor AML Will Ruin Stablecoins*

Apr 12, 2026

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25 min read

🧠 Poor AML Will Ruin Stablecoins*

*If we don't figure out how to do it differently. Plus, Perplexity & Plaid Partner on Personal Agents

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 The Checkout is Dead pt2: Invisible Commerce

Apr 5, 2026

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19 min read

🧠 The Checkout is Dead pt2: Invisible Commerce

Walmart saw a 66% conversion drop adding agentic commerce. Proving agents needs invisible payments, not better checkouts.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Wallet Wars Pt 4: The Personal Finance Agent.

Mar 29, 2026

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19 min read

🧠 Wallet Wars Pt 4: The Personal Finance Agent.

The next wave of consumer fintech isn’t an app. It’s a personal agent. And nobody’s built the product yet.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Private Credit is Cooked*

Mar 22, 2026

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16 min read

🧠 Private Credit is Cooked*

Every bank will go onchain. It’s a question of when & with who?

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
The Intention Layer

Mar 18, 2026

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15 min read

The Intention Layer

How agents will pay on the internet—and the economy that emerges when they can

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 The Everywhere Insider

Mar 15, 2026

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20 min read

🧠 The Everywhere Insider

The MrBeast bust, the KPMG anomaly, and the Iran wallets. Plus; CFTC's new rules & Revolut finally gets a bank account.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🤖 It's Time to Talk to Your CEO About Open Source AI

Mar 10, 2026

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13 min read

🤖 It's Time to Talk to Your CEO About Open Source AI

OpenClaw is Linux. We don't know who Red Hat is yet.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
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