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Anthropic puts $150M behind AI service work
Plus: Coinbase bets agents will spend
Rimsha Bhardwaj, Hasan Toor & Ihtesham Haider
June 12, 2026
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Today, we will talk about these stories:
Claude Corps tests AI in nonprofits
Coinbase gives AI agents a wallet
Adyen buys into AI pricing
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Anthropic wants AI skills in the field
Image Credits: Anthropic
The launch image shows scuba gear under a bright blue sky, which fits a program built around showing up in person.
Anthropic is putting an initial $150 million into Claude Corps, a fellowship that will train 1,000 early-career workers to use Claude inside nonprofits.
Fellows get a 12-month role, an $85,000 salary, benefits, and placements across at least 400 host organizations.
That is a real bet.
I think the strongest part is the structure: full-time work, local organizations, and weekly training instead of a loose online credential.
The harder question is whether nonprofits get durable systems after the fellows leave, or just temporary help from people learning on the job.
If this works, it gives AI companies a more practical way to address job disruption than publishing policy papers.
The test is placement.
Coinbase wants agents handling money
Image Credits: Coinbase
Coinbase is giving AI agents a way to trade crypto from plain-language prompts.
The new Coinbase for Agents tool lets systems like ChatGPT or Claude execute trades, rebalance portfolios, and manage positions for users.
Its x402 payments protocol has already handled more than 100 million transactions, with about 157,000 agent buyers active in the past 30 days.
This is risky territory.
I think Coinbase is moving early because financial activity is one of the clearest places where agents can become useful, measurable, and fee-generating.
The bigger issue is trust: letting software read research, pay for data, and trade from those signals means users need tight limits and clear records.
At 1 p.m. on a Thursday, this sounds like a product launch, but it is really Coinbase trying to own the payment layer for agent activity.
The open question is how much financial judgment people will hand over.
Adyen wants the billing layer
Image Credits: Ayden
Adyen is buying Orb to help companies handle more complex usage-based pricing.
Adyen wants Orb because AI companies often charge by usage, and that can make billing harder than a standard subscription.
This makes sense. Payments companies are watching AI firms create pricing models that change with tokens, calls, seats, and volume, and Adyen wants to sit closer to that work.
The acquisition signals that billing is becoming a more important part of the AI stack, especially for companies trying to turn usage into clean revenue.
On a June 11 page crowded with popups and newsletter boxes, the quiet story is that pricing tools are now strategic assets.
The question is whether Adyen can make complicated AI bills feel normal.
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