AI pricing economics shift
Stripe's Mayank Pant presents a five-step AI pricing framework covering value definition, charge metrics, model selection, guardrail design, and iteration cadence. Key finding: 5-10% of power users consume 80% of compute, making pure subscription untenable; OpenAI, Anthropic, and ElevenLabs use a credits abstraction to evolve pricing without customer-facing disruption.
AI risk assessment non-determinism
Jake Williams (former NSA) walks through five production vulnerability classes — prompt injection, insecure output handling, credential leakage, weak agent identity governance, and logging gaps — and maps controls including LangSmith, Llama Guard, and prompt firewalls. Core guidance: treat LLM outputs as hostile by default and build test harnesses to reproduce probabilistic findings.
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agentic commerce infrastructure
Stripe Sessions 2025 unveils Machine Payments Protocol for agent-to-API purchasing, Link agent wallets with user-approved spending limits, Metronome token metering, and Tempo streaming payments. Treasury expands to 119 countries with stablecoin payouts; Radar fraud detection extends to all payment methods. Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Shopify are launch partners.
edge model training failure modes
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