Conference talks worth your timeAI pricing model 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.
LLM threat modeling failure modes
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.
long-horizon robot autonomy
Mem compresses visual tokens for short-horizon tracking and language summaries for long-horizon semantics, keeping inference under 300ms. PIO 7 trains a single policy with task metadata and subgoal conditioning, matching fine-tuned specialists on kitchen, laundry, and recipe tasks without post-training.
prompt-as-implementation tradeoffs
Cursor rebuilt its parallel-agent work-tree feature — isolated git checkouts running best-of-n comparisons — by composing two existing primitives: agent skills and sub-agents. Maintenance burden drops sharply and multi-repo support is gained, but models occasionally escape isolation on long sessions; evals run via BrainTrust and RL training address reliability.
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.