Miscellaneous AI developments: coding saturation and Mastercard's agent payment interfaces

International sources reported two separate developments in artificial intelligence. A co-founder of Cognition said that many coding tasks have reached a state of intelligence saturation, and that cost and speed have become more important than the smartest model. Mastercard made early-access application programming interfaces available that enable AI agents to purchase digital services.

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• The co-founder of Cognition believes the focus has shifted from the smartest models to cost and speed in coding tasks.

  «إذ لم تعد النماذج الأذكى هي الأهم. بات الأهم الآن هو التكلفة والسرعة.»

  Business Insider
• Mastercard has made application programming interfaces available to developers for early access to its Agent Pay for Machines platform.

  «تمكّن وكلاء الذكاء الاصطناعي من شراء خدمات رقمية باستخدام قسائم دفع موقعة وفق بروتوكول x402»

  Tech Times on MSN
• The platform relies on signed payment vouchers under the x402 protocol, with no blockchain transaction for each operation.

  «تمكّن وكلاء الذكاء الاصطناعي من شراء خدمات رقمية باستخدام قسائم دفع موقعة وفق بروتوكول x402»

  Tech Times on MSN

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