AI agents are getting better at doing things on their own. They can search for information, call...
AI agents are getting better at doing things on their own.
They can search for information, call APIs, compare options, run workflows and make decisions without someone sitting there approving every step.
But there is one step that makes all of this much more interesting:
What happens when the agent needs to pay for something?
Imagine an agent that needs a data API. The API costs a few cents per request.
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AI agents will need to pay for compute, data, and API calls. The current paradigm of human-managed...
Last week I sat through a session on the Agentic Economy at GDG NiT Agarpara, half-expecting the...
