San Francisco Archives

AI Trends 8 min read | Craig DeWitt

Scaling Your AI Payment Infrastructure Effectively

AI payment infrastructure is quickly becoming the backbone of modern automated systems. As more businesses and developers rely on AI to drive day-to-day transactions, having a solid infrastructure isn’t just helpful—it’s a must. But setting it up is one thing. Scaling it as demands grow is where the real challenge begins. Whether you’re running AI […]

AI Trends 8 min read | Craig DeWitt

Preventing Downtime In AI Payment Gateway Systems

AI payment gateway systems play a big role in how modern applications move money. These systems make it possible for automated agents to process payments, confirm identities, and handle sensitive interactions without needing a human to step in. But with all this speed and precision, there’s one thing that can throw everything off—downtime. If the […]

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: […]