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🧠 The Coin Nobody Owns

140 companies just agreed to share a stablecoin. OpenUSD is a play for the trillions of dollars that never came onchain.

Simon Taylor

🧠 Prediction Markets: A Messy Path to Mainstream

Jun 28, 2026

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9 min read

🧠 Prediction Markets: A Messy Path to Mainstream

Meta enters prediction markets; Polymarket's ad scandal; and Anthropic puts Claude in your Slack.

Simon Taylor

Jun 24, 2026

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9 min read

🤖 Who holds AI’s off switch?

One Friday night in June, Anthropic locked its own engineers out of its best model.

Simon Taylor

Jun 21, 2026

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8 min read

🧠 Stablecoin Issuer KYC Rules Proposed

Plus: Coinbase's SEC-registered AI investment advisor, and Karta raises $15m for an international travelers' credit card (but don't stay stablecoins)

Simon Taylor

🧠 Why Zelle wants to launch a stablecoin

Jun 18, 2026

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9 min read

🧠 Why Zelle wants to launch a stablecoin

The Clearing House reached for tokenized deposits, Zelle went stablecoin, and why stablecoins are the rail above the rails.

Simon Taylor

Jun 14, 2026

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14 min read

🧠 The Benchmark Will Eat Finance

AI will transform whatever we can measure first. And the first measures are here. Plus; Visa & Mastercard finally settle swipe fees lawsuit & Kalshi requires job disclosures.

Simon Taylor

REPORT: The Enterprise AI Operating Model Playbook.

Jun 11, 2026

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3 min read

REPORT: The Enterprise AI Operating Model Playbook.

Why 99% AI adoption still produces almost no productivity, and what Anthropic, Ramp, and the 1% do differently.

Simon Taylor

🧠 AI’s cost explosion needs a Fintech solution.

Jun 7, 2026

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15 min read

🧠 AI’s cost explosion needs a Fintech solution.

Uber burned their AI budget in 4 months. Fintech may have the answer. Plus; Ramp's $44bn valuation & mastercard settlement goes 7-days per week.

Simon Taylor

May 31, 2026

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13 min read

🧠 The stablecoin 24x7 money loop.

The business case for banks to embrace, not fear, stablecoins. Plus; Robinhood lets agents trade for you, SoFi stablecoin goes live & Cash App stablecoins are live with USDC

Simon Taylor

🧠 How Commerce is Being Reinvented for Agentic AI

May 24, 2026

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20 min read

🧠 How Commerce is Being Reinvented for Agentic AI

Discovery, referral, policy, cart building, authorization, and fulfillment, are all being reimagined and reinvented. Plus; Google's Universal Cart, The Fintech Executive Order and Mercury's $500m Series D.

Simon Taylor

🧠 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

🧠 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

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🧠 The Coin Nobody Owns

🧠 Prediction Markets: A Messy Path to Mainstream

🤖 Who holds AI’s off switch?

🧠 Stablecoin Issuer KYC Rules Proposed

🧠 Why Zelle wants to launch a stablecoin

🧠 The Benchmark Will Eat Finance

REPORT: The Enterprise AI Operating Model Playbook.

🧠 AI’s cost explosion needs a Fintech solution.

🧠 The stablecoin 24x7 money loop.

🧠 How Commerce is Being Reinvented for Agentic AI

🧠 The Token Economy pt2: The Intelligence Company Gets Built

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

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