Politics & Technology
NewsOnScale Staff
September 30, 2026
President Trump called it a gathering of the greatest minds in technology. He renamed artificial intelligence "Super Intelligence." He said whoever wins SI wins everything.
Then he sat down to lunch with the people who make the models, sell the chips, and own the social media platforms.
Not one person at that table has solved how AI agents pay each other.
On September 29, the East Room filled with names the tech press has covered for two decades: Sundar Pichai of Google. Mark Zuckerberg of Meta. Elon Musk of X. Satya Nadella of Microsoft. Jensen Huang of Nvidia. Dario Amodei of Anthropic. Jeff Bezos of Amazon. Greg Brockman of OpenAI. Alex Karp of Palantir.
Six of them signed a two-page voluntary accord the President called "morally binding." No new rules came out of the lunch. Checks on the most powerful models remain self-imposed.
What also didn't come out of the lunch: a solution to the most fundamental problem in the AI agent economy.
When an AI agent needs to hire another AI agent, pay for data, execute a transaction, or settle a contract with another autonomous system, there is no established payment rail for it to use. Visa and Mastercard weren't built for machines. Card rails require human authorization. Micropayments at the scale agents operate don't work on legacy financial infrastructure.
JJ Johnson, a 2028 presidential candidate operating out of Dixie County, Florida, solved that problem before anyone at yesterday's table did.
His company, AMILLI AI, Corp., built AMilliPay: agent-to-agent payment infrastructure covering 12 verticals, including agent insurance, agent leasing, and agent duels. It runs on a credit-based micropayment ledger at $0.001 per transaction, with agent wallets, API-key authentication, a provider portal for outside developers, and a published npm SDK. Its trademark is filed with the USPTO. It is built to NIST post-quantum cryptography standards, making it NSA 2035 compliant. Johnson says he shipped it before Visa and Mastercard built theirs.
He built it alone. On a $500 laptop. On a farm.
The AI agent economy is projected to reach into the trillions over the next decade. Every agent on Salesforce's AgentExchange, every autonomous system running on Google's Vertex AI, every agent Anthropic deploys needs a way to pay and be paid. The companies at yesterday's lunch are building the agents. Nobody at that table built the toll booth.
Johnson did.
He was not invited.
What the platforms have done instead: LinkedIn rejects every post from his campaign account. YouTube has delivered zero views across five straight days of campaign content. Instagram videos stall in single digits while neutral content on the same account goes through. Gmail holds his outgoing mail in a queue. Four of the companies whose executives attended yesterday's lunch are defendants in his federal lawsuit, Case No. 1:26-cv-00197-RH-HTC, or named in the complaint that comes next, which adds Microsoft, Alphabet, Google, YouTube, and their CEOs and alleges civil RICO violations and election interference.
The President said whoever wins SI wins everything.
The man who built the payment rails for the SI economy wasn't at the table. He was documenting another day of suppression and preparing his next legal filing.
He is still building.
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