Larridin, an AI-coding cost optimization firm, reports that engineering leaders at Uber, Coinbase, and Fanatics can cut AI-coding costs by 20-40% within days by avoiding budget caps and instead extend…
A live protocol called x402 lets AI agents pay for web content automatically via HTTP 402, backed by Coinbase, Stripe, and Cloudflare, but lacks a trust layer, leaving agents vulnerable to prompt inje…
NewLimit, a San Francisco longevity biotech co-founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, reported that its AI system Ambrosia reversed aging signs in human liver cells from donors over 60, and closed a…
The Linux Foundation announced on 2 April 2026 at MCP Dev Summit North America that it is launching the x402 Foundation, with Coinbase contributing the x402 protocol and named intending supporters inc…
Fal made its H3 Max reference-to-video model generally available on September 6, claiming real-time generation with up to four references and speeds up to twice as fast as its preview. The API support…
A scan of 135 live x402-payable services from Coinbase's public Bazaar catalog found that 33% have no SPF record, 63% are not actively enforcing DMARC, and 27% show no agent-discoverability signal suc…
OpenAI announced Thursday it will provide $1 billion in subsidized access to its cybersecurity models over the next six months, prioritizing water systems, electricity grid operators, and local govern…
The $22.7 billion yield-bearing stablecoin market, growing about 11% monthly, is outpacing regulation and creating accounting challenges, as platforms like Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini offer yields vi…
Uber, Pinterest, Stripe, Coinbase, Ramp, and AT&T are cutting AI costs by replacing proprietary models with open-source alternatives and using smart model routing, according to The Pulse. The shift re…
A developer who runs an x402 store conducted a census of all 35 hosts on the public x402 discovery list and found that 34 of them served no signed offer, meaning buyers were paying without a binding c…
Coinbase announced its AiFi (Agentic Finance) initiative, a financial layer enabling AI agents to transact, with tools including Coinbase Advisor, Coinbase for Agents, x402, and Coinbase for Business.…
Protect Progress, the Democratic-facing affiliate of crypto-backed super PAC Fairshake, spent $189,527.60 on independent media supporting Representative Jake Auchincloss before he won Massachusetts' F…
Coinbase announced in August the launch of AiFi, an AI-driven financial ecosystem enabling autonomous AI agents to manage crypto assets and execute trades, alongside a Bitcoin-backed mortgage service …
A developer built an Express API that allows AI agents to pay per call in USDC via the x402 protocol, with 27 paid endpoints live on Base mainnet. The implementation uses the dormant HTTP 402 status c…
Fal, the San Francisco-based generative media platform co-founded by Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven, released H3 Max on September 1, a post-trained video model based on MiniMax's open-weights H3 that…
MoonPay launched its AI-enabled payment and wallet tool PayBox inside X's chatbot Grok, enabling users globally to buy, sell, and lend crypto across blockchain networks. The integration, announced Mon…
Garry Tan, president of Y Combinator, says he now ships roughly 400x the work he did in 2013, attributing the gain to what he calls Personal AGI—a private stack of memory and skill files that compound…
Ant Group CEO and Alipay chairman Han Xinyi said stablecoin payments are one of four major models in the emerging global AI payments market, according to a report by PA News citing Caixin. Han identif…
A developer has built an x402-aware crawler in Go, demonstrating how Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway and the x402 standard enable paid web scraping. The crawler handles HTTP 402 responses by complet…
A developer has launched a self-hosted API on Base mainnet that sells LLM inference for USDC via the x402 HTTP 402 payment protocol, with a live endpoint running on a single RTX 5090 GPU and pricing s…