Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella, Sid Nag, and Dan O’Brien, president and COO of the Futurum Group, discuss a new Google protocol that enables AI agents to conduct shopping transactions, marking another step toward agent-based commerce becoming practical at scale.
The gang then looks at recent advances in AI coding, examining how new tools are influencing application development and DevOps workflows. The episode concludes with a discussion of a U.S. Congress initiative aimed at ensuring continued funding for quantum computing research and development, highlighting the strategic importance of long-term investment in emerging technologies.