Coinbase's x402 lets AI agents pay for APIs in USDC

Two industry PACs, American Mission and Building the Future, spent $4.8M backing South Carolina Senate candidate Darline Graham, who lost. Anthropic-backed Public First had more success with Democrats, while Guardrails Alliance spent over $1M each opposing two losing candidates.

DevRev uses GPT-6.1 Sol to power its Computer and Operator products, balancing reasoning, speed, and cost for enterprise service.

OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. The post frames the work as cutting down the number of paths to root.

Tenspresso, founded by former Google AI chip engineers, is negotiating a financing round that would value it at $500 million, per people familiar with the matter. The company is roughly three months old.

TwIL-8B is post-trained from IBM's Granite 4.2 8B and ships a 4.98 GiB Q4_K_M GGUF that runs on CPU or modest-VRAM GPUs. It trails Qwen3.5-9B by 11.5 points on GPQA Diamond (70.2) and scores 12.6 on HLE.

A Reddit user fed Claude Code raw 3DS machine code for Minecraft and Terraria with no source available, and the model located a deleted 3D renderer inside Minecraft and reimplemented it. The experiment targeted the two games' 3DS ports, neither of which shipped with 3D on the console.

MobiHealthNews published a video segment titled "'Super AI partner' for patients?" examining the idea of an AI companion role in patient care. The item carries no article text, figures, or named products beyond the title.