Google Launches AP2: Agent Payments Protocol for AI Commerce - Google has unveiled the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open protocol developed with leading payments and technology companies to securely initiate and transact agent-led payments across platforms. The protocol builds on the Agent2Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) standards, creating a payment-agnostic foundation that ensures users, merchants, and financial institutions can transact with confidence while avoiding fragmentation in the AI agent ecosystem.

OpenAI Balances Teen Safety, Privacy, and Age Prediction in AI - As AI becomes a daily part of young people’s lives, OpenAI is working to ensure that ChatGPT provides a safe, age-appropriate, and trustworthy experience for teens. OpenAI is prioritizing teen safety by introducing age prediction systems and parental controls, while reaffirming commitments to privacy and user freedom.

OpenAI Launches GPT-5-Codex: A Major Upgrade to Codex for Agentic Coding - OpenAI has released GPT-5-Codex, a version of GPT-5 purpose-built for real-world software engineering. Unlike the general-purpose GPT-5, this model is tuned for agentic coding tasks, such as building entire projects, debugging, large-scale refactors, feature development, and code reviews.





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Microsoft favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code - Microsoft is adding automatic AI model selection to its Visual Studio Code editor that will automatically pick the best model for “optimal performance.” This new auto model feature will select between Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-5, GPT-5 mini and other models for GitHub Copilot free users, but paid users will “primarily rely on Claude Sonnet 4.”

Gemini app finally expands to audio files - Google made three major updates to its Gemini-powered products on Monday: The Gemini app now accepts audio files; Search can handle five new languages; and NotebookLM creates reports in the form of blog posts, study guides, quizzes, and more.

China tells its tech companies they can’t buy AI chips from Nivida - Nvidia just got shut out of the Chinese market — this time by the Chinese government instead of the US. China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, banned domestic tech companies from buying Nvidia AI chips.

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