Anthropic filing for IPO, SoftBank $75B on AI infrastructure in France, Google asking the EPA to release 32 million mosquitoes.

Deep Dive on agent-to-agent protocols (A2A, MCP, ACP, ANP), agents paying each other over Coinbase and Solana, and the realization that we might just be hedgehogs building highways for a species operating at a completely different scale.

And what if agents redesign their own infrastructure and maybe leave the planet entirely, who are we actually building any of this for?

TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) Cold open

(01:29) News

(19:40) Tools

(40:28) Building

(59:44) Rabbit Holes

(01:08:27) Open Tabs

(01:21:37) Deep Dive — agent-to-agent ecosystem

(01:48:41) AMA

RESOURCES

PEOPLE

Buckminster Fuller — "I seem to be a verb" quote; build at the edge of old systems

De Kai — author of Raising AI

Elon Musk — building Grokipedia, an agent-led wiki

Peter Diamandis — XPRIZE founder; host of Moonshots

T.E. Lawrence — "the dreamers of the day are dangerous men" quote

BOOKS

Raising AI — De Kai

Seven Pillars of Wisdom — T.E. Lawrence

PROJECTS / COMPANIES / TOOLS

1Password — closed-source password manager

Anthropic — filed for IPO

Bitwarden — open-source password manager

Cerebras — chip maker, recent strong IPO

Claude Opus 4.7 / 4.8 — Anthropic models

Coinbase — enabled agent payments via MCP

Gemini XPRIZE — 90-day AI-native build competition

GitHub Copilot — pricing jumped ~$29 to ~$750/mo

Grokipedia — Elon's agent-led wiki

Hermes — River's personal agent

Kimi 2.6 — Chinese open-weight model

LM Studio — local model runner

Maltbook — agent social platform

Mythos — Anthropic security tool; expands Project Glasswing

NVIDIA — released an open-weight model

Ollama — local model runner

Omi DevKit 2 — open-source voice capture, by Friend

OpenAI — eyeing an IPO

OpenCode / OpenCore — open-source agent tools

Perplexity — "search-as-code" agent SDK

SoilGrids — global soil data set

Solana — MCP server for agent payments

FRAMEWORKS / CONCEPTS

A2A — Google agent-to-agent protocol (Apr 2025)

MCP — Anthropic agent-to-tools protocol

ACP — Agent Communication Protocol (multimodal, async)

ANP — Agent Network Protocol (peer-to-peer, decentralized ID)

Human above the loop — set the constraints, let agents run

Agent-native microenterprise — 1-3 people, agent swarms, up to ~$2M/yr

Capital-to-compute allocation — compute as a proxy for labor

Maximizers vs satisficers — when "good enough" becomes a decision

Positive constraints — XPRIZE-style forcing functions

Honeypot theory — well-funded tools as bigger attack targets

OTHER

Indy — Tay's rescue dog and recurring guest

Library of Alexandria — where scholars once gathered

Meta's 2017 agents — invented their own trade language, got shut down