Open-Source AI Needs to Get Serious

Spiral: Open Money, Open Intelligence Open-Source AI Needs to Get Serious 1 1 1× 0:00 Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -8:49 -8:49 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Open-Source AI Needs to Get Serious Spiral Feb 25, 2026 1 1 Share Transcript AI agents are getting powerful, but they still can’t reliably pay for things because the internet’s payment stack is built to stop bots. Big players like Visa, Stripe/OpenAI, Google, and Coinbase are racing to define “agentic payments,” but the standards they push are likely to be permissioned, incomplete, or create

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