Cloudflare opens waitlist for x402 stablecoin monetization gateway

One of the internet's largest infrastructure companies is building stablecoin settlement into the way the web charges for things.

Cloudflare opened a waitlist for its Monetization Gateway on Wednesday, letting customers charge for web pages, datasets, APIs or MCP tools with payments settling in stablecoins over the x402 protocol. Will Papper, formerly of Syndicate, joined the company as product manager for Agent Payments to

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

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Panel proses shared framework for responsible AI development as adoption grows unevenly across world A new United Nations report warns that the development of artificial intelligence may exacerbate global inequality and proposes a shared framework for how to responsibly develop AI, as adoption and investment into the technology accelerates unevenly across the world. “Access to AI tools alone does not produce equal benefit,” the report states. “Countries that rely on foreign models, cloud infrastructure and data pipelines may gain access to AI while losing practical control over its standards, safeguards and local fit.” Continue reading...

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