Today in AI — 28 May 2026

Robinhood gave AI agents a credit card yesterday. That sentence would have read as satire six months ago; today it is a product launch. The thread across thirteen stories: agents are becoming economic actors with their own billing demands, and trust infrastructure hasn't caught up.

Agents as customers

Robinhood now lets AI agents trade stocks and use a credit card, positioning them as financial participants. Microsoft made computer-using agents generally available in Copilot Studio, and Snowflake committed $6 billion to AWS, driven by CPU demand from agentic workloads.

• Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks and use a credit card — TechCrunch
• Microsoft Copilot Studio ships computer-using agents, voice capabilities, and workflow overhaul — Microsoft Copilot Blog
• Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS as AI agents drive CPU demand — TechCrunch

Who pays and how

GitHub Copilot shifts to usage-based billing on 1 June and Meta launched consumer subscriptions across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Cognition raised $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation while Altman and Amodei walk back AI jobs apocalypse predictions ahead of their respective IPOs.

• GitHub Copilot shifts to usage-based billing with AI Credits on June 1 — GitHub Blog
• Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with AI plans to follow — TechCrunch
• AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation — TechCrunch
• Sam Altman and Dario Amodei both walk back AI jobs apocalypse predictions ahead of IPOs — Fortune

Trust lags behind

DuckDuckGo installs surged 30% as users rejected Google's AI-first Search, and YouTube began automatically labelling AI-generated videos. DataGrail found that 63.6% of AI vendors don't disclose sending your data to third-party models, while Google's own AI can't spell "Google" correctly.

• DuckDuckGo installs surge 30% as users reject Google's AI-first Search — TechCrunch
• YouTube will now automatically label AI-generated videos — TechCrunch
• 63.6% of AI vendors don't disclose sending your data to third-party models — VentureBeat
• Why Google's AI can't spell 'Google' (or anything else) — TechCrunch

Vertical bets

Amazon greenlighted three AI animated series under its new GenAI Creators' Fund, and Verge Labs launched as a frontier AI lab building models of human disease biology.

• Amazon greenlights three AI animated series under new GenAI Creators' Fund — Deadline
• Verge Labs launches as a frontier AI lab building models of human disease biology — PR Newswire

For builders: your AI costs are about to become variable, your agents are about to become spending entities, and your users are watching whether you earn their trust or assume it.

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