Infrastructure

Connect first, argue about ownership later

South Africa delayed Starlink for years to protect an ownership principle. Ontario built a rural internet plan on Starlink, then had to cancel it. Both got the sequence backwards.

The AI web just got a toll booth, and Cloudflare owns it

Cloudflare's new Monetization Gateway lets sites charge AI agents per request. The mechanism might finally solve micropayments, but the same old question follows: who ends up owning the meter.