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Agentic AI Foundation

Coinbase launched an MCP-based tool enabling AI agents to trade, pay for research, and purchase compute via the x402 protocol, initially for crypto with plans to expand to stocks and prediction markets. SemiAnalysis revealed that heavy users of Anthropic and OpenAI subscriptions extract thousands more in token costs than they pay, indicating mispriced subscription plans. Nous Research released a Hermes Agent Profile Builder allowing users to configure identity, model, skills, and MCP servers from a single dashboard.

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🪙 Coinbase Makes Agentic Trading Real With MCP: Coinbase debuted an MCP-based tool that lets AI agents trade, pay for premium research, and buy on-demand compute using the x402 payment protocol. Initially for crypto, the firm plans to expand to stocks and prediction markets. A unified platform where Claude and ChatGPT (or any agent) sounds convenient. Just make sure your agent doesn’t FOMO trade on your account.TechCrunch - 🏭 SemiAnalysis Shows AI Subscription Economics Are Wildly Mispriced: SemiAnalysis stress-tested Anthropic and OpenAI subscription plans and found that heavy users get out thousands of dollars more than they pay from token costs for max subs, with ChatGPT Pro/Codex showing especially large arbitrage. Subscription pricing is still subsidizing high-intensity workflows that would be far more expensive at raw API rates. This arb, too, will close over time.SemiAnalysis on X - 🧠 Nous Adds MCP Server Management To Hermes: Nous Research shipped a Hermes Agent Profile Builder that lets users configure identity, model, skills, and MCP servers from one dashboard flow. Hermes continues to be laser-focused on usability, and its gets a lot of community love for that. —MarkTechPost

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