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Maex Ament (Causa Prima): $10M Seed for Agent-to-Agent Payments
Maex Ament announces Causa Prima's emergence from stealth with a $10M seed led by Creandum, building a network of AI agents that negotiate invoices, payments and terms between companies' accounts-payable and accounts-receivable teams. He traces his background writing SAP's payment program and building payments companies, explains the guardrails and human-in-the-loop design for moving money, and sizes the opportunity at global-GDP scale with tens of millions in discount capture per large corporate. He closes with his take on hiring AI-first, less hierarchical teams across Madrid and Munich.
Ross Taylor (General Reasoning) — Scaling Economics, DeepMind & UK Sovereignty
Ross Taylor distills his viral tweet on the sovereign AI debate: frontier scaling takes tens of billions, but validating new directions takes far less compute, and premature scaling is 'the root of all evil.' He weighs DeepMind's positive spillovers against its Google ownership, discusses US capital flowing into King's Cross and retaining first-generation UK talent, and describes the unglamorous engineering reality of LLM work from his Meta days post-training Llama 2 and 3. He confirms General Reasoning is preparing a first model release and that building in London hasn't been an obstacle.