FT: Crypto.com founder buys ai.com for record $70 million

Kris Marszalek joined the AI industry with autonomous agents and a Super Bowl ad that briefly sidelined the website. What to know : Kris Marszalek, the co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com, paid $70 million in cryptocurrency for the ai.com domain in April 2025, more than double the previous record price for a web address. Ai.com announced a consumer platform built around autonomous AI agents that perform tasks such as trading and scheduling. Its Super Bowl ad drew such heavy traffic that the website crashed.