How To Build Your Own Internet in 2026

AI slop and enshittification are making the public social commons unbearable. The alternative pathways are more accessible ...

Google's Universal Commerce Protocol Signals The End Of Search-Based Shopping

Google's Universal Commerce Protocol isn't just an API, it's infrastructure for AI-native shopping. Learn why major retailers ...
WGHP

OnePay joins Google's Agent Payments Protocol to Define the Future of Agentic Payments

NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- OnePay today announced it has joined Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to help make AI-driven, agentic payments more secure, transparent, and useful for ...
The Verge

AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in ...
MoneyWeek

Will the internet break – and can we protect it?

What's the issue with the internet? The vast majority of the world’s population relies on the internet every day for work, communication, banking and social life. But the network’s ubiquity means that ...
PC Gamer

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

I often take the internet for granted. Over the years it's taken many forms but the underlying technology has mostly remained the same. However, even the very foundation of the internet as we know it ...
Internet Society

The Internet’s Five Critical Properties

What Are the Internet’s Critical Properties? When we talk about the Internet, what we’re really describing is a set of practices and norms. We call these the critical properties, and they describe the ...