300 years ago, back in November 25th, 2025, (because 1 human month is like 100 AI years!), when I had just completed the Fashionomics course and exam, and about a week after I had written "Phi-LESO-phy, Sabotage and "The Case Against Extreme Wealth", Raghu Para's article: "The Silent Subscriber: Why telecom's next billion-dollar customer is an AI agent" was published. In it, he pointed out that there was a monumental shift from B2C (Business-to-Consumer) to what he called B2Ai (Business-to-Agent), "a transition that will redefine customer acquisition, retention and network strategy."
So much has been happening in the AI universe that it is difficult to keep up. For the past two weeks, I've been trying to write something for this blog but the pace of change and innovation is so dizzying that I experienced a bit of analysis paralysis. Below is my attempt to highlight some AI stories that I think will have a direct bearing on Afrogoth.
200 AI years ago, on January 3rd 2026, in reference to Tom Bilyeu's post, I wondered if AI agents qualify to be considered employees. Two months later, on March 4th 2026, the answer was in Peter H. Diamandis' article titled ClawPilled: Meet Your AI Chief of Staff Who Never Sleeps. Diamandis welcomes us "to the world of OpenClaw: where AI stopped being a tool and became a workforce."
"Amazon V. Perplexity: Welcome To The Battle For The Future Of Commerce" is the title of John Koetsier's article, published on November 5th, 2025, (three days before I published Coin Couture: Aksum, Alexander the Great and Augmented Reality). Koetsier summarizes the battle this way: "an e-commerce vendor doesn’t want people buying things from its website...Rather, the e-commerce vendor wants people to buy things from it in the way it wants them to...it’s about power." I mentioned something similar in my article "War on Crypto, mockumentary on moon landing by Berliner, Menelik in Berlin Conference" (One could argue that the moon landing phenomenon was all about power and control.)
On March 12th, 2026, the Amazon versus Perplexity article was updated, with a link to Koetsier's March 10th, 2026 article which announced that "Judge rules ai agents can't act on your behalf without platform permission".
Circling back to Para's article, the sub-heading was "AI agents - not humans - will soon choose networks." It got me thinking about the Afrogoth subscription model. Afrogothers - Afrogoth's target audience - are curious, playful, global citizens who love the stories and histories that clothes tell. Perhaps the Afrogoth net should be widened to include the AI agents of potential Afrogothers? This would have certain implications. As Para notes, AI agents "won't be swayed by a clever marketing slogan but will make a ruthlessly logical choice..."
