x402 agent-payments protocol moves under Linux Foundation governance with Visa, Mastercard and AmEx aboard
A 40-member foundation now governs Coinbase's protocol. CoinDesk reported about $24 million processed across 75 million payments in the past 30 days, most under a dollar. The Linux Foundation announced Tuesday that the x402 Foundation is now operating under...
Anthropic ships Claude Science, an AI workbench that runs inside the lab
The beta consolidates researchers' scattered tooling under a coordinating agent and, Anthropic says, keeps sensitive data on a lab's...
White House Launches 'Gold Eagle' as AI Speeds Discovery of Infrastructure Flaws
A Treasury, DHS and Pentagon effort is meant to help industry and government engineers prioritize critical-infrastructure vulnerabilities; a separate model-review...
Australia plans binding AI data-centre rules and rejects copyright carve-out for AI training
A new Office of AI starts immediately. Proposed standards that would force data centres to fund their own power and minimise water...
Apple's new on-device speech engine tops Whisper on English accuracy, benchmark finds
Inscribe's own tests put SpeechAnalyzer ahead of every Whisper model it ships at roughly three times the speed — but a...