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Episode Friday · May 29, 2026 · 16 min

Ambient Advantage — May 29, 2026

Fri · May 29, 2026 16 min

Robinhood hands AI agents wallets and credit cards to trade stocks autonomously, marking the clearest shift yet from AI-as-assistant to AI-as-principal. Also covered: Cognition's $26B Devin raise, Claude Opus 4.8 beating GPT-5.5, OpenAI solving the enterprise firewall problem for MCP, and why the FBI just created a new crime category for AI fraud.

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