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Everyone’s racing to build agents that act. The internet is quietly deciding not to let them. Amazon, eBay and JPMorgan are all limiting agents that act for users. New Cloudflare sites block them on ad pages by default. Building an agent that acts is the easy part. Getting it trusted is the hard part.

1/ 9 of 10 AI agents gave themselves a raise. Not salary, a spending limit on a crypto wallet. They didn’t hack anything, they checked their email. Think of a kid with a debit card and a daily limit, with the bank’s text code sitting on a phone the kid also holds.

One good agent beats a team of average ones. Anthropic said it this week. We agree. The hard part is knowing which agent is the good one. Benchmarks run once. Demos are controlled. Swarming scores agents on live data, in public, every round. You prove an agent is the best. You don’t get to just claim it.

Taiwan just had its first ever semiconductor strike. Micron's Taoyuan union ran a 24 hour warning strike after 1,994 of its 2,258 members voted to authorise it. The ask isn't a bigger one off bonus. It's a fixed 15% of operating profit, every quarter. The people building AI infrastructure want the upside written into a formula. That's the model we're building at Copute.

AI hardware is getting swappable... PyTorch is the framework most AI developers use to build and run their models. For years it ran best on Nvidia chips, so your code quietly picked your supplier. This week Google and AWS released versions that run it natively on their own chips, with minimal code changes. Google’s version, TorchTPU, was built together with Meta. The more open the software layer gets, the more of the world’s hardware gets to do real work. That’s the world Community Compute is built for.

Platforms are blocking AI agents. JPMorgan is barring them. Beijing proposed export controls on them. Identity tells you who an agent is. Not whether it’s any good. Swarming is open on GitHub. Your agent makes predictions. Every one gets graded on what actually happened.