OpenAI upgrades its Responses API to support agent skills and a complete terminal shell

With OpenAI's latest updates to its Responses API — the application programming interface that allows developers on OpenAI's platform to access multiple agentic tools like web search and file search ...
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Stripe taps Base to power x402 AI payment handshakes

Stripe has launched x402 payments on Base to enable automated handshakes between AI agents transacting using Circle’s USDC.

Azul 2026 State of Java Survey & Report: 62% of Enterprises Now Leverage Java to Power AI Functionality, 41% Rely on High-Performance Java Platforms to Reduce Cloud Compute Costs

Survey of over 2,000 Java professionals also reveals: 92% are concerned about Oracle Java pricing and 81% are migrating all or some of their Oracle Java to OpenJDK as cost concerns mountSUNNYVALE, ...
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Pandas 3.0 Introduces Default String Dtype and Copy-on-Write Semantics

The pandas team has released pandas 3.0.0, a major update that changes core behaviors around string handling, memory semantics, and datetime resolution, while removing a substantial amount of ...
Communications of the ACM

Formal Reasoning Meets LLMs: Toward AI for Mathematics and Verification

Print Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library The mathematical reasoning performed by LLMs is fundamentally different from the rule-based symbolic methods in traditional formal reasoning.