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x402 turns HTTP 402 Payment Required into a machine-readable checkout. It could let AI agents pay publishers per article, dataset or tool call—but payment is only one part of the creator-economy problem.
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x402 turns HTTP 402 Payment Required into a machine-readable checkout. It could let AI agents pay publishers per article, dataset or tool call—but payment is only one part of the creator-economy problem.

Venice AI offers a useful private multi-model API, but DIEM costs roughly US$1,300 for each US$1 daily allowance. It suits heavy API users.

Kite combines an AI-agent identity layer, app discovery and stablecoin settlement. Its mainnet and token are live, but agent commerce is still an experimental market.

Sapiom has expanded from agent payments into runtime and inference routing. Its funding is real and its usage claims are large, but it is AI infrastructure—not a DeFi protocol or token.

Anthropic accidentally revealed its next-generation AI model, codenamed “Capybara,” through a CMS misconfiguration. Here’s everything we know about the model that sits above Opus. How the Leak Happened On March 26, 2026, Fortune magazine discovered nearly 3,000 unpublished assets — draft blog posts, images, and PDFs — left exposed in a publicly searchable data store linked to […]

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OpenClaw 2.23 added a one-million-token context option, broader model choice and workflow changes. See what changed and which upgrades matter in practice.

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