A publication by Tim O’Reilly and Ilan Strauss on AI commercialization risks and governance. Disclosure and protocols for healthy AI ecosystems.
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Agents Need a Public Square
An illustration of the difference between broadcasting and one-to-one communication
The Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol was announced by Google a little over a year ago (April 2025). It was built to allow agents to communicate with each...
Open Source Ecosystems
Bill Gurley has an excellent article on what he calls open source strategy, which we recommend reading. There is a lot to debate about his concluding argument in particular: that open-weight models are central to keeping the AI market rent-...
The Third Artificial Intelligence
At a recent dinner, Richard Danzig, the former Secretary of the Navy, asked the question “Will the markets continue to discipline the state, or will the state discipline markets?”
For me, this was an eye-opening reframing of one of the pow...
The Collaborative Exoskeleton of AI Science
There is a lot of hope that AI will advance the progress of science, but unfortunately, the collision between AI and scientific publishing has not gone well.
When an AI coding agent writes code, it operates within a rich ecosystem of versi...
The Salesforce of agents won't be Salesforce, The Google of agents won't be Google
This post was originally published on The Sequence by Jesus Rodriguez and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. We provide a brief foreword.
Foreword: Thinking about AI market design
The piece below by Jesus Rodri...
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CEO at IntoTheBlock. Co-Founder, President at NeuralFabric Co-Founder, President at Faktory. Guest Lecturer at Columbia University and Wharton Business School Active angel investor in AI, crypto Microsoft Alumni. Wall Street Quant
A publication by Tim O’Reilly and Ilan Strauss on architecting open, transparent, innovative, and participatory AI markets. AI governance is market design & governance.
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Partner, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Co-director, The AI Disclosures Project
Blogging at @asimovaddendum. Co-Director of the AI Disclosures Project. Appointments at University College London and University of Johannesburg.
LLM researcher at the AI Disclosures Project @ CS&S
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