Building the Future of AI: How Agent2Agent and MCP Are Unlocking Interoperability

As the agent ecosystem rapidly evolves, interoperability is emerging as the foundation for scalable, secure, and collaborative AI. Industry leaders—including Google, Anthropic, Cisco, and others—are actively building open standards like Agent2Agent (A2A), Model Context Protocol (MCP), and AGNTCY to ensure agents from different vendors and platforms can discover, communicate, and work together seamlessly We’re at a pivotal moment where these standards are becoming the essential building blocks for the “Internet of Agents,” much like HTTP and TCP/IP did for the web. This collaborative push for interoperability aims to break down silos, accelerate innovation, and create a robust, trustworthy AI ecosystem that benefits enterprises and developers alike ...

April 18, 2025 · 1 min · 149 words · bjr

OpenAI - a systemic risk to the tech industry?

Despite a $40 billion funding round, only $10 billion is secured, with the rest contingent on converting to a for-profit model. OpenAI is burning billions, potentially $14 billion in 2025 alone, due to high compute costs and infrastructure investments like the Stargate data center. SoftBank’s financial health is also at risk due to its significant investments in OpenAI, leading to potential asset sales. OpenAI’s high spending and increasing costs raise concerns about its long-term sustainability. ...

April 18, 2025 · 1 min · 90 words · bjr

A cult of ignorance

In 1980, Isaac Asimov penned a brief yet powerful opinion piece that feels strikingly relevant today. A visionary of technological futures, Asimov captured—with unsettling clarity—the mindset shaping our current era. Cult of ignorance

April 18, 2025 · 1 min · 33 words · bjr

the Cypherpunks mailing list

In the early 1990s, as the internet was beginning to shift from a government and academic experiment into a globally connected system, a quiet revolution was forming among a small but determined group of mathematicians, programmers, and digital activists. They saw what few others did: that the very architecture of this new digital realm could become either a tool of unprecedented freedom — or a mechanism for total surveillance and control. ...

April 18, 2025 · 4 min · 746 words · bjr

The Shift Left Data Manifesto

A core idea behind shifting Data Left is simple but often overlooked: data is code. Or more accurately—data is produced by code. It’s not just some downstream artifact that lives in tables and gets piped into dashboards and spreadsheets. Every record, event, or log starts somewhere—created, updated, or deleted by a line of code. And just like DevOps demonstrated, if you want to manage something well, you start at the point of creation. ...

March 27, 2025 · 1 min · 81 words · bjr

The Berkshire Hathaway letters

The Berkshire Hathaway Letters, written by Warren Buffett to shareholders, offer a refreshing perspective filled with specific facts, figures, and timeless business insights. Shareholder Letters

March 26, 2025 · 1 min · 25 words · bjr

How North Korea Will Wash Crypto via Perpetual Futures

The latest twist exploits perpetual futures platforms with deep liquidity and lax KYC, effectively turning ill-gotten funds into legitimate-looking trading profits. This has gotten easier as the trading depths on perps exchanges has grown significantly over the last year. Let’s take a look at exactly how it’s done: High-Leverage Alchemy The core concept is to use extreme leverage on a no-questions-asked futures exchange to deliberately liquidate “dirty” funds, while profiting from an opposite position taken with clean money elsewhere. On these perps platforms, you have exposure to no expiry futures often offering 50x, 100x or higher leverage. At 50x leverage, a price move of just ~2% can wipe out a position entirely, along with the collateral margin supporting it. ...

March 26, 2025 · 2 min · 406 words · bjr

VC startup ownership by valuation

According CARTA, the VC startup ownership by valuation.

March 25, 2025 · 1 min · 8 words · bjr

how much data is stored online?

Digital industries are booming. Data storage business alone are projected to grow by nearly 18% anually, reaching $778 billion by 2030.

March 25, 2025 · 1 min · 21 words · bjr

ai adoption : supercharging modern business

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