Agentic Workflows - The Wire by FourthWeb - AI, RWA, & Web3 / Web4 Intelligence (Page 19)

Human Imperative Mar 31, 2026

AI Fact-Checkers Can't Agree on Basic Iran Claim

Four AI chatbots were asked to fact-check a simple claim about policy objectives, and they couldn't agree on what happened.

Human Imperative Mar 31, 2026

Google Burns 1.3 Quadrillion Tokens While Your AI Bill Explodes

AI companies are celebrating billion-token burns like they're product features, but your finance team just saw the invoice. Google is processing 1.3 quadrillion tokens monthly, 20x more than a year ago. Infrastructure providers like Nvidia are cheering. Your CFO is not.

AI Agent Economy Mar 31, 2026

Americans Use AI More Every Day—And Believe It Less

Americans are using AI more and trusting it less, a paradox that tells you everything about where we are in 2026. A new Quinnipiac poll shows AI adoption climbing in the U.S. while trust in the technology simultaneously drops, with most Americans voicing concerns about transparency and regulation

AI Agent Economy Mar 31, 2026

Microsoft Bets $100B AI Strategy on Running Rival Models Side-by-Side

Microsoft just showed its hand: the future of enterprise AI isn't picking sides, it's orchestrating multiple models like instruments in a band. Microsoft launched new Copilot 365 features that combine OpenAI and Anthropic models in a single workflow, not as alternatives but as sequential tools

Real World Assets Mar 31, 2026

Crypto Just Stopped Being an Industry at Consensus 2026

Consensus 2026 just marked the moment crypto stopped being an industry and became infrastructure. Consensus 2026 in Miami drew massive institutional presence after a decade of building, with deep focus on agentic commerce

AI Agent Economy Mar 31, 2026

Big Tech Down 18% as Market Bets on Infrastructure Over Apps

The Big Tech selloff isn't just a dip — it's the market pricing in a world where infrastructure matters more than interfaces. Tech stocks are selling off as investors question whether we've hit a structural turning point in how markets value technology companies

AI Agent Economy Mar 31, 2026

Software Crash Has Only Just Begun, Says Top Tech Investor

Software's bloodbath has just started, and AI agents are the reason why. Dan Niles says software stocks are "nowhere near the bottom" despite recent tech selloffs tied to Iran conflict volatility The catalyst isn't geopolitics. It's agentic AI systematically replacing software seats

AI Agent Economy Mar 30, 2026

Okta's $14B Business Faces Extinction Unless AI Agents Get Corporate Badges

Okta's CEO just admitted he's paranoid about AI killing his $14 billion business, and his survival plan is to make your AI agents get a corporate badge.

AI Agent Economy Mar 30, 2026

While AI Companies Burn Cash on Compute, ScaleOps Raises $130M to Stop the Bleeding

While everyone's building smarter agents, ScaleOps just raised $130M to make sure those agents don't bankrupt their creators. ScaleOps closed a $130M Series C to automate Kubernetes infrastructure optimization in real time, targeting the GPU shortage and exploding AI compute costs

AI Agent Economy Mar 30, 2026

Meta Loses $310 Billion in One Week as Investors Flee AI Risks

Meta just shed $310 billion in market cap in a week, and the panic isn't about missed earnings or ad revenue dips. Meta lost 11% of its value last week, erasing $310 billion in market cap despite starting 2026 as the hottest Big Tech stock

AI Agent Economy Mar 30, 2026

Goldman's CIO Says AI Improved Faster in 18 Months Than He Predicted in 5 Years

Goldman Sachs' CIO just told us what 18 months of real AI deployment looks like inside a bank, and the pace of change is faster than the headlines suggest.

AI Agent Economy Mar 30, 2026

China's $2B Robot IPO Signals Manufacturing's Next Superpower

China's industrial robot maker Inovance is raising up to $2 billion in Hong Kong, and the timing tells you everything about who's winning the manufacturing automation race.

AI Agent Economy Mar 30, 2026

DeepSeek's $6 AI Model Crashes for Seven Hours as Millions Watch China's ChatGPT Killer Fail

The cheap AI darling just learned an expensive lesson: you can't scale on duct tape and prayers. DeepSeek's chatbot went down for over seven hours, the longest outage since the Chinese AI lab shocked the world with its cost-efficient model in January 2025.

AI Agent Economy Mar 30, 2026

Tencent Dumps $5.2B Into AI Agents After Gaming Profits Surge

Tencent just threw $5.2 billion at AI agents, and it's not because they're feeling generous. Tencent plans to more than double AI spending to $5.2 billion in 2026, riding 13% sales growth from its gaming business

Real World Assets Mar 30, 2026

Visa Wants to Rent You AI Payments. Coinbase Lets You Own Them.

Visa and Coinbase just showed you two futures for AI agent payments, and only one of them lets you own the rails. Visa and Coinbase are both building payment infrastructure for AI agents, but Visa's is traditional card rails while Coinbase is building on crypto

Real World Assets Mar 28, 2026

AI Destroys Software Companies While Crypto Escapes the Bloodbath

While crypto worries about bear markets, traditional software companies face something worse: AI that writes their products for free. Ravi Tanuku, CEO of Kraken-backed KRAKacquisition Corp, argues crypto's bear cycle is trivial compared to AI's existential threat to software companies

AI Agent Economy Mar 28, 2026

Databricks Spent $5B on Two Startups to Fix AI's Security Problem

Databricks just turned $5 billion into a shopping spree, buying two AI security startups to plug the holes that enterprise AI keeps creating. Databricks acquired Antimatter and SiftD.ai fresh off a $5B raise, rolling them into a new AI security product

Real World Assets Mar 28, 2026

Anthropic's Most Dangerous AI Leaked Through Its Own Security Flaw

Anthropic just accidentally announced its most dangerous AI yet, and the leak itself proves exactly why they're worried. Anthropic's unreleased "Capybara" model leaked via an unsecured data cache, revealing capabilities the company itself labels as carrying "unprecedented" cybersecurity risks

Human Imperative Mar 28, 2026

OpenAI Just Killed Three Products in One Week—Here's What Survives

OpenAI just killed its erotica chatbot, video app, and shopping feature in the same week, and the pattern tells you everything about where AI money actually lives.

Real World Assets Mar 28, 2026

Anthropic Leak Reveals AI That Breaks Code — $47B in Software Value Evaporates

Anthropic just leaked an AI model that's apparently very good at breaking things, and the market is pricing in a world where software security just got exponentially harder.