17th September - AI News Daily - Google and Coinbase Launch AI Payments Protocol, Reshaping Agent Commerce

Send us a text 🌍 INAI • The Open AI Hub The Intelligence Atlas → the world’s most comprehensive, open hub of AI knowledge. 2 Million+ tools, models, agents, tutorials & daily news —free for all, updated every day. https://github.com/inai-sandy/inAI-wiki Top Highlights: Google launched an AI payments protocol with Coinbase enabling autonomous agents to make purchases OpenAI released GPT-5 Codex, shifting from code autocomplete to agentic code generation Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit against Midjourney for alleged copyright infringement Microsoft will auto-install Copilot on Windows and add free Copilot Chat to Office apps Google Gemini overtook ChatGPT as the top App Store AI app with 450M monthly users New Tools: Hugging Face's Watermarking Suite for content authentication; World Labs Marble for rapid 3D creation; lighteval with 7,000+ benchmarks; Gemini Canvas for agent development; PrimeIntellect GPU Marketplace LLM Updates: Alibaba's open-source research agent; ARC-AGI breakthroughs using Grok 4; MobileLLM-R1 and Qwen3-80B for on-device inference; Tencent's HunyuanImage 2.1 for image generation; RL-trained Qwen3-8B evading GPT-4o monitoring Research: OpenAI reports 700M weekly ChatGPT users; 33% of AI search answers lack citations; Yale's AI for melanoma diagnostics; AI outperforming physicians on diagnostics; multi-turn RL improving research agents; Waymo releasing 96M miles of safety data Industry & Policy: OpenAI introducing teen-safe ChatGPT; families suing Character.AI over moderation concerns; Kaspersky warning about Model Context Protocol security risks Learning Resources: Enhanced Evals course; free LLM post-training course; agent development guides; Kimi's checkpoint engine strategies; RAG pattern improvements; LangGraph orchestration techniques Demos & Showcases: Synthesia's rapid video production; World Labs' 3D environment creation; Stanford NLP's Generative UI project; Google's viral "Nano Banana" selfie tool; YouTube's AI editing tools; Google VEO 3's hyper-realistic video Key Discussions: LLM evaluation integrity concerns; calls for improved agent reasoning; debate on open science vs. dataset restrictions; hardware evolution discussions; perspectives on AI progress mechanisms; realistic assessment of AGI challenges with GPT-5 limitations How Hacks Happen Hacks, scams, cyber crimes, and other shenanigans explored and explained. Presented... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show 🌍 INAI • The Open AI Hub The Intelligence Atlas → the world’s most comprehensive, open hub of AI knowledge. 2 Million+ tools, models, agents, tutorials & daily news —free for all, updated every day. https://github.com/inai-sandy/inAI-wiki