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AI & Enterprise
Google in talks for $1.5 billion deal to license Mechanize technology, targets AI coding expansion
Google is in talks with AI coding startup Mechanize over a deal worth about $1.5 billion, including securing a non-exclusive licence to its technology and hiring some staff involved in model evaluation and development. Mechanize, founded last year, is developing simulation environments, evaluation benchmarks and scoring systems to train AI agents. Google is considering using the technology to strengthen coding performance as its coding agent faces competition from Anthropic and OpenAI.
AI & Enterprise
Stripe CEO says software in AI era should be made to order like pizza
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said software in the AI era should be made on demand rather than mass-produced, likening it to pizza prepared to order. Speaking on the TBPN podcast, he said software should not be monetised infinitely based on fixed costs but built at the time it is used. Business Insider said the remarks reflect tech industry tensions over AI’s impact on existing software models.
Crypto
Stripe says AI agent spread needs blockchain capable of 1 billion TPS
Stripe said blockchain infrastructure needs to scale to 1 billion transactions per second to handle transactions made by AI agents. Patrick Collison (패트릭 콜리슨), Stripe\'s CEO, and co-founder John Collison (존 콜리슨) made the point in an annual letter, Cointelegraph reported on Wednesday. Solana and Internet Computer Protocol are among the fastest blockchains, but Stripe said their throughput would still be insufficient if AI agents become widely deployed.