Tooling2d ago
Lightning Labs Open-Sources pi402: Coding Agents Pay for Inference per Token in Bitcoin over Lightning, with No Accounts, API Keys or Cards
On November 12 Lightning Labs released pi402, an extension for the Pi coding agent with an embedded Wavelength Lightning wallet. When the agent calls a paid inference API, it pays automatically over L402 or MPP, and the proof of payment doubles as the API key, so there is no sign-up and no credit card. Sellers put Aperture v0.6.0 in front of an existing inference API and price per token with meterd or lightmeter. The whole stack is open source (MIT). Lightning Labs' example rate of 1 msat per input token and 2 msat per output token works out to about $0.80/$1.61 per million tokens at a bitcoin price of about $80,500.
Tooling2d ago
Simular Launches box, a Cloud Linux Desktop Exposed as One Remote MCP Server That Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor Can Share; the Desktop Is Free and Model Calls Use Credits
On November 12 (UTC), Simular, the computer-use agent startup backed by Felicis and NVIDIA, launched box: one cloud Ubuntu desktop per account with Chrome and a persistent shell, exposed as a single remote MCP server (https://mcp.box.simular.ai/mcp, Streamable HTTP, OAuth sign-in). Any MCP client can add it, including claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and VS Code, so different assistants can work on the same machine with shared logins and files. Users watch it live on the web or iPhone and take over to sign in or approve payments. The desktop itself is free; model calls use account credits. The box sleeps when idle, wakes in about a second, and is deleted after 14 straight days asleep. The launch video passed 810K views. Simular has not published a benchmark for its "fastest computer use" claim.
Benchmark2d ago
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v2.1 Moves to FrontierCode 2.0 and Terminal-Bench 4.1: Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Opus 5.5 Tie for First at 58, Scores Drop 5 Points on Average
On November 14 Artificial Analysis released Coding Agent Index v2.1, swapping FrontierCode 1.1 for its implementation of Cognition's FrontierCode 2.0 (132 real-world tasks graded on whether a maintainer would merge the change), upgrading Terminal-Bench from 4.0 to 4.1 and keeping SWE-Atlas-QnA-AA. Claude Fable 5.2 (xhigh and high, in Claude Code) and Claude Opus 5.5 (max) share the lead at 58. Because FrontierCode 2.0 is harder, scores fall 5 points on average; only Codex with GPT-6.1 Terra (max) held within 1 point of its prior score.
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