CLOUDFLARE'S $200B SHOT AT MACHINE PAYMENTS, $0.30 AT A TIME

Summary from the TLDR Fintech newsletter

With Cloudflare's latest launch, agents can now pay at request time rather than requiring subscriptions. The economics of software is changing by becoming the economics of tokens and inference. Intelligence acts upon data, and data is still gated all across different parts of the web. In order to be able to answer questions and book trips, robots need to query information and pull together a lot of disconnected context. Little tentacles will extend from our searches into machine brains, ready to purchase whatever mana is needed to fulfill our wish.