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Technology Insights 10 min read | Ankit Agarwal

Your Agent Has Amnesia: Why Short-Term Memory Matters More Than You Think

How agent frameworks like Vercel AI and Autogen approach memory and why forgetting can break reasoning. This isn’t about vector databases — it’s about the kind of memory agents need to think between runs. Short-Term Memory Keeps LLMs Thinking Straight Try solving a problem without being able to remember the last step you took. You’d […]

AI Trends 8 min read | Craig DeWitt

Staying Current With AI Payment Compliance Updates

Keeping up with changing regulations can feel like a nonstop game of catch-up, especially in areas that shift as fast as automation and finance. AI payment systems are no exception. These systems are transforming how transactions get handled, verified, and secured. But as with any tech tied to money, rules come with it. That’s where […]

AI Trends 8 min read | Craig DeWitt

Setting Up Custom Rules In AI Payment Automation

AI payment automation is changing how digital transactions work. Whether it’s internal company payments, subscription services, or real-time identity checks, automation gives businesses a faster, cleaner way to handle it all. AI agents can decide, approve, and process without waiting for manual input. That freedom opens up new opportunities, but it also means businesses need […]

Payment Innovations 7 min read | Craig DeWitt

Solving Multi-Factor AI Payment Authentication Problems

AI-powered systems are becoming more responsible for handling sensitive information, including financial data. That responsibility makes proper user verification more than just a suggestion. Most of these systems depend on multi-factor authentication to protect transactions across users and platforms. The problem is, MFA methods aren’t always reliable when applied to AI agents that aren’t human. […]

AI Trends 7 min read | Craig DeWitt

Signs Your Business Needs Advanced AI Merchant Services

Managing payments and customer data has changed fast over the past few years. Many businesses that once relied on simple software or manual systems are now facing the limits of those setups. As operations scale and processes speed up, cracks start to show. Payments get delayed, identity checks take longer than they should, and customers […]

Uncategorized 3 min read | Craig DeWitt

Fireside Chat: Mr. 403 Meets the Agent Economy

Fireside Chat: Mr. 403 Meets the Agent Economy If you’ve ever tried to run an AI agent at scale across the open web, you’ve likely hit a wall of “403 Forbidden.” Behind many of those blocks is Akamai, the world’s largest edge security and bot management platform. At the Agentic Commerce event, Skyfire sat […]

Uncategorized 4 min read | Craig DeWitt

Auth0 x Skyfire: Agentic Commerce

Inside the Auth0 + Skyfire Demo: How Agents Can Act on Your Behalf Without Exposing Identity or Payment Credentials For years, Auth0 has been at the forefront of identity and access management, powering login, authentication, and API protection for thousands of applications and platforms. But at the Skyfire Agentic Commerce event, they showed something different: […]

Technology Insights 8 min read | Ankit Agarwal

Agent Tool Calling Chaos when MCP Server Tools have Optional or Nullable Parameters

When building MCP servers, you quickly realize something: the devil really is in the details. One issue we’ve encountered is how differently LLMs and agent frameworks handle optional and nullable parameters in MCP server tools. At first glance, this might sound like a subtle implementation detail. But as we learned—through multiple iterations across OpenAI, Anthropic, […]

Uncategorized 7 min read | Craig DeWitt

Agentic Commerce: The Rise of Tokenized Payments and Identity

The internet is changing again. After evolving from static web pages to dynamic applications and APIs, a new shift is underway. This time, it’s not just about users. It’s about agents. Software agents—powered by large language models, task automation frameworks, and decision engines—are beginning to act on behalf of people and organizations. They book meetings, […]

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