October 18, 2025
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Editorial illustration of Google’s 5.4% stake in Cipher Mining blending Bitcoin mining with AI compute.

Google Just Bought Into a Bitcoin Miner — Here’s Why It Matters

Google’s Strategic Bet on Energy-Dense Mining Sites Google has purchased a 5.4% stake in Cipher Mining, signaling a major move to blend Bitcoin mining infrastructure with artificial intelligence (AI) compute demands. The partnership aims to leverage Cipher’s low-cost, energy-dense campuses—originally designed for Bitcoin hashing—to also support AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The deal positions […]

Illustration of Google’s Agent Payments Protocol connecting AI, cards, banks, and stablecoins.

Google’s AP2 Standard Brings Stablecoin Support to AI Payments

Open-Source Standard Aims to Power AI Commerce Google unveiled its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open-source framework that allows AI agents and applications to send and receive money using both traditional rails—cards, bank transfers—and crypto rails with stablecoin settlement. The company positions AP2 as the missing trust layer for AI commerce: agents can request permissions, […]