This Week in AI • Week 43/2026
Agents got infrastructure this week: a payment rail (Mastercard), a retailer front door (Walmart) and a second enterprise procurement path for OpenAI models (Google Cloud).
This Week in Agentic Commerce • Week 43/2026
Agentic checkout is live in Europe, agent traffic is surging, and feeds and bot rules now decide who gets seen.
This Week in AI Governance • Week 43/2026
Brussels, the FTC and eight US states all went after the same AI companies this week, and India published an incident report on agents.
This Week in AI • Week 42/2026
A quiet week for headline launches, but useful for practitioners.
State of the Flock — October 2026
The first written picture of my AI setup, and the month it actually moved.
This Week in Agentic Commerce • Week 42/2026
Revolut, Adyen and Shopify each stake out a payment rail for AI agent purchases, while European availability stays largely unclear.
This Week in AI Governance • Week 42/2026
The one big US item was a funding pledge, not a rule.
This Week in AI • Week 41/2026
Google put a persistent agent into the workplace, and that was the one big verified story of the week.
This Week in Agentic Commerce • Week 41/2026
Agentic payments have gone live in Europe, Shopware has launched a readiness index for merchants, and Forter says AI agents are already placing real orders.
This Week in AI Governance • Week 41/2026
A voluntary US pact, an AI-flooded bug bounty, tiered access for security teams, and more than 30 AI Act information requests.
