Coinbase And AWS Bring x402 Payments To CloudFront Publishers
Coinbase and AWS are pushing x402 as a way for publishers and APIs to charge autonomous AI agents, but hot-key and spend-limit risks remain.
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This week, the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift reached general availability. As a member of the Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG), this one caught my attention. The SDK brings production-ready MQTT 5 connectivity, Device Shadow, Jobs, and fleet provisioning to Swift developers on macOS, iOS, tvOS, and Linux. I’m curious to see what you will build with it. […]
Read full articleCoinbase and AWS are pushing x402 as a way for publishers and APIs to charge autonomous AI agents, but hot-key and spend-limit risks remain.
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This week, New York City is hosting AWS Summit, bringing together builders, customers, and AWS teams for a full day of announcements, demos, and technical sessions at the Javits Center. I wrote blog posts for some of the Summit launches, so I am excited to see them go live this week. I just won’t be […]
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