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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.
Stanislas Polu (Dust) — Intelligence as a Sovereign Input & the EU Ban Thought Experiment
Polu frames intelligence as a sovereign input to the economy like energy or people, invoking France's nuclear tradition, and walks through his provocative tweet suggesting a ban on OpenAI and Anthropic on EU soil as a thought experiment that would instantly redirect usage and create European leaders. He explains Dust's 'multiplayer AI' direction for steering long-horizon agents together, and breaks down why open-weight models trail the frontier by roughly six months—mid-training needs real usage trajectories that distillation can't fully replace—while noting Mistral's enterprise deals don't supply that usage data.