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Brave Search API now lets AI agents pay per request with x402
Brave Search API accepts x402 payments in USDC on Base: AI agents pay $0.005 per search with no account or API key, for web, news, image and LLM Context search.
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NewsOpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet so AI agents can pay for you
ChatGPT Wallet lets OpenAI's dots agents pay with a payment token instead of your card number, starting with US ChatGPT Pro users and Visa, Mastercard or Amex.
NewsTim Peters, author of the Zen of Python and Timsort, has died
Tim Peters, the Python core developer behind the Zen of Python, Timsort and doctest, died on July 15, 2026, Guido van Rossum told the Python community.
NewsMicrosoft 365 outage takes down Outlook, Teams and the status page
The Microsoft 365 outage that began November 12, 2026 was still not fully fixed 16 hours on. Email is held for 48 hours and no attack was found.
NewsUnited Airlines blocks third-party AI agents from booking flights
United Airlines will block unauthorized personal AI agents from booking and managing trips, directly and via travel agencies, citing security and FAA rules.
NewsRust 1.100 makes the never type stable after 10 years
Rust 1.100.0 stabilizes the never type (!), the core Allocator API, DropGuard and Cargo dependency cooldowns, and Cargo now warns about unused dependencies.
NewsGoogle releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen, its fast model, in Search and API
Gemini 4 Hydrogen is out in the Gemini API, AI Studio and Google Search, with a 1M token context at $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens and a new xhigh level.
NewsGoogle launches Gemini Decisions API for fast yes/no and choice calls
Gemini Decision 1 answers up to 1,000 yes/no, choice and rubric questions per request in 150-250 ms, at $0.10 per million input tokens and free output.
NewsAWS launches AWS Emulator, a free local copy of AWS APIs for testing
AWS Emulator runs AWS APIs on your machine for local and CI tests, with no AWS account or fee. It is written in Rust, CC0-licensed and was built by AI agents.
NewsGoogle adds offline speech recognition and TTS to AI Edge Gallery
Google AI Edge Gallery now does on-device speech-to-text and text-to-speech, with ML Kit GenAI APIs on Android and MediaPipe and LiteRT models elsewhere.
NewsNVIDIA donates OpenShell agent sandbox runtime to the CNCF
At KubeCon, NVIDIA gave OpenShell, its open-source runtime for sandboxing AI agents, to the CNCF and launched NVKE, NVKR and Snapshot for GPU Kubernetes.
NewsChrome ships Modern Web Guidance 1.0 to fix coding agents' old habits
Google Chrome's Modern Web Guidance 1.0 gives coding agents 200+ expert guides on modern HTML, CSS and JS, with a legacy-scan CLI. Firefox and Edge join.