Carmen Pangilinan
Every issue of Notes from the Intersection, by Carmen Pangilinan.
When AI's loudest voices ask to be regulated
Something unusual happened in Westminster last week. Two of the loudest companies in artificial intelligence stood in front of British lawmakers and
Read Issue →Five governments moved on AI in a single week
Last week, five different governments moved on artificial intelligence in seven days. Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill in Washington to ban
Read Issue →Your agent can spend money now. Proof is the missing product.
In the last few weeks the largest platforms on the internet started handing AI agents their own wallets. The agents can now pay for things by themselves
Read Issue →AI labs now write the regulation they used to fight
The labs are now helping write AI regulation. The open question is verification: who can actually inspect these systems, and that is the layer onchain builders should be racing to own.
Read Issue →AI Agents Got the Rails Before Anyone Wrote the Rulebook
Coinbase, Mastercard, and Anthropic each shipped a piece of the same idea this week: AI agents are getting blockchain payment rails before anyone wrote the rulebook.
Read Issue →When AI Agents Make Decisions, Someone Has to Answer for Them
An AI agent rebalances a multi-million dollar position overnight, inside its mandate and outside the loss limits. Who answers for it?
Read Issue →Sovereign AI Cannot Run on Someone Else's Servers
Three institutions this week framed AI sovereignty the same way: a country that wants to control its AI cannot get there by training a model alone.
Read Issue →When AI Agents Need a Witness
Imagine you delegate a contract negotiation to someone you have never met. They make commitments, transfer funds, and return with a signed agreement. But t
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