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OpenAI's $1.2T Ask, AI's Penny Toll, and Login Rethink — September 16, 2026
A funding round could value OpenAI at one point two trillion dollars, before it's even public. A website charged an AI agent one cent to read a page, and still isn't sure it got paid. Same day, wildly different amounts. We go through what that trillion-dollar number actually rests on, how a new payment protocol lets agents pay by the fraction of a cent, and why platform teams are swapping static login keys for certificates that expire in minutes.
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