Hey Multiverse Crew,
Hello! Did you see the last two agentic rover livestreams? @UnapologeticallyNerd, @thatdetroitandy and I built an agentic rover that can navigate a room. They're up on youtube. I also released a few videos on Self-Assembling Swarms and Swarm Dynamics. Don't forget to enlist to help stop the robot uprising.
Took a break from the newsletter last week, was a bit overloaded starting things up. We kicked off two recent projects, Mindcraft after the Emergent Garden guy's work, and Rover AI, after Joaquin and Andy's work. This is partly because these are some practical, non-chatbot examples of agentic behavior that can be demonstrated for our Agents classes. The theme of this week's Research Swarms are Orient.
Y'all know I am a policy wonk about some things.
The FTC is on fire lately, throwin out hits left and right. The FTC is also about to require that automatic, one-click subscription cancellation be a part of subscriptions and as a result Stripe launched a subscription cancellation API! I am literally genuinely so excited! This is a big deal for consumers. I implemented Stripe everywhere before I was aware of how hard it was to cancel recurring subscriptions, and I felt so weird about it because the manual process of this sucks for everyone. I hate having to email about subscription cancellation, I know you also hate it.
I will implement it sometime over the next two weeks. Look at that, the government doing things, for non-corporations! Big ups to the FTC. We're about to hit a size where COPPA and GDPR apply (once we hit 1000 signups) so I'll also slot in some time to add more of the infrastructure and documentation for you to learn about all the many ways in which I track everything about what you do when you interact with my systems. I'll also do a video series about it, showing the public what I can and can't get. I will not leak your IP address in the process, as the goal is literally digital privacy and consumer privacy education activism.
