Shared entity / Threat pattern
48 threats catalogued against Google's Agent Payments Protocol v0.2, eight of them High severity, because signed mandates do not cover the pre-authorization context
arXiv
Stack layer
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Claims 2.6% Word Error Rate and Ships Two Separate APIs for Live and Recorded Audio
Google Blog
Stack layer / Threat pattern
Benioff Called the SaaSpocalypse "Nonsense" the Same Week Salesforce Spent a Record $27B on Buybacks and Stock Jumped 12%
CNBC (corroborated by Motley Fool buyback and Fortune coverage, 2026-08-21 and 2026-08-26)
Policy dependency / Stack layer
A controlled ablation on a production science agent finds the model choice dominates topology and prompting, and a PPO policy nearly matches it for free
arXiv
Stack layer / Update thread
Google Cloud Shipped Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services With 50 Skills, 13 Connectors and a Partner Agent Marketplace
Google Cloud Blog (corroborated by PRNewswire, 2026-08-25 12:00)
Stack layer / Update thread
IBM Released Granite 4.2 as Dense Reasoning Models at 3B, 8B and 30B Under Apache 2.0 With a 512K Context
Hugging Face (ibm-granite), via r/LocalLLaMA
Stack layer / Contrast
Claude Code ships /claude-api cost-optimize, a skill that profiles an existing project's API spend one measured change at a time
Claude Code changelog
Stack layer / Contrast
Google Cloud Added Deferred-Execution Agent Pricing at Half the Inference Cost and Pooled Quota Across Business Apps and IDEs
Google Cloud Blog