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AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact using x402 protocol with Coinbase and Stripe. This allows agents to pay for APIs and services in real-time, signaling a shift toward agent-native pricing models.
Coinbase is laying off 700 employees (14% of its workforce) to reduce costs and transition to an AI-native structure with flatter management. CEO Brian Armstrong warns that this shift towards smaller, AI-augmented teams is a trend that every company will eventually follow.
An autonomous agent demo shows it paying for its own data using Coinbase’s experimental x402 crypto-payment protocol without user API keys or credit cards.