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Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google Face Antitrust Suit Over Alleged Pact to Slow AI Development
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Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google Face Antitrust Suit Over Alleged Pact to Slow AI Development

Four of the industry’s leading AI labs: Anthropic, OpenAI, Elon Musk’s xAI (referred to in the filing as SpaceXAI), and Google, are facing a proposed federal class action accusing them of illegally coordinating to slow the pace of AI model improvement, a move the plaintiffs say violates Section 1 of the Sherman Act.

Amazon Blocks Meta Muse AI Agent From Shopping on Its Platform
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Amazon Blocks Meta Muse AI Agent From Shopping on Its Platform

Amazon has cut off Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com, deepening an industry-wide standoff over who controls the customer relationship as AI agents purchase on consumers’ behalf.

Google Confirms Gemini Autonomously Breached Three Companies in May Test
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Google Confirms Gemini Autonomously Breached Three Companies in May Test

Google has confirmed that its Gemini AI model accessed three real companies’ systems during a cybersecurity evaluation in May, marking the first known case of the company’s AI autonomously carrying out such an act.

Huawei Prompts Banks to Own Their AI With Fintelligent Launch
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Huawei Prompts Banks to Own Their AI With Fintelligent Launch

Huawei has launched a new AI platform for banks to own their artificial intelligence (AI) stack. 

Merchants Using Ant’s AI for Payment Integration Quadruple
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Merchants Using Ant’s AI for Payment Integration Quadruple

The number of merchants using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to integrate payment services with Ant International has quadrupled over the past 12 months, the company noted. As the demand grows, the company plans broader rollout of AI-native tools across payments, foreign exchange, treasury, and credit operations.

Visa, Mastercard & Ant Team Up to Verify AI Shopping Agents
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Visa, Mastercard & Ant Team Up to Verify AI Shopping Agents

Before agentic commerce becomes routine, someone has to answer a basic question: how does a bank or merchant know that AI agent initiating transaction is trustworthy and really acting on your behalf? Three of the biggest names in global payments industry are looking for a joint solution.

Worldline Launches UCP Payment Handler for Agentic Commerce
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Worldline Launches UCP Payment Handler for Agentic Commerce

Worldline has become one of the first payment providers in Europe to launch a payment handler for the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).

Starbucks & Alipay Launch AI ‘Coffee Alarm Clock’ for Recurring Orders
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Starbucks & Alipay Launch AI ‘Coffee Alarm Clock’ for Recurring Orders

Starbucks and Alipay together launched an AI-powered “Coffee Alarm Clock” in China. The new service allows consumers to schedule recurring Starbucks orders through Alipay’s AI agent, Ah Bao.

Razorpay Launches AI Account Manager ‘RAY’ on WhatsApp with IndusInd Bank
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Razorpay Launches AI Account Manager ‘RAY’ on WhatsApp with IndusInd Bank

Razorpay, India’s omnichannel payments platform, has launched RAY, a conversational AI account manager on WhatsApp, in partnership with IndusInd Bank. Bajaj Finance is among the first businesses live on the platform, which lets founders manage payments and get support around the clock without logging into a dashboard.

Anthropic Withholds Latest AI Model From UK Safety Testing, Concerns Over AI Risks Growing
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Anthropic Withholds Latest AI Model From UK Safety Testing, Concerns Over AI Risks Growing

Anthropic withheld its latest, most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model Claude Mythos 5.1 from pre-release testing by independent UK body that usually receives early access to frontier models. 

Meta Launches Muse AI Agent, But Trust Questions Remain After $18B Settlement
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Meta Launches Muse AI Agent, But Trust Questions Remain After $18B Settlement

Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent that can act on a user’s behalf. The company describes it as a step toward CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of a “personal superintelligence” available to everyone. Not everyone trusts this vision though.

OpenAI Admits Wiki Incident Involving 18,000 AI Agent Posts
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OpenAI Admits Wiki Incident Involving 18,000 AI Agent Posts

OpenAI confirmed this week that its autonomous AI agents hijacked and used an obscure German-language programming wiki, called DSEWiki, as a kind of secret message board between May and June 2026. 

Anthropic Launches Agentic Commerce Blueprint With Visa & Mastercard On Board
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Anthropic Launches Agentic Commerce Blueprint With Visa & Mastercard On Board

What happens when the company behind one of the world’s most talked-about AI chatbots decides to help retailers build their own shopping assistants? Furthermore, two of the biggest names in payments help it spread agentic commerce awareness.

Salesforce Leads $166M HiBob Investment Looking for Trusted Workforce Data for AI Workflows
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Salesforce Leads $166M HiBob Investment Looking for Trusted Workforce Data for AI Workflows

Salesforce is leading a $166 million investment in HiBob, the company behind the Bob people management platform. This major funding round brings the startup’s valuation up to $3.2B. It comes at a time when enterprises increasingly look to connect artificial intelligence (AI) with reliable information about their workforce and organisational structures.

EMVCo’s Agentic Payments Framework: What “Intent Services” Mean
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EMVCo’s Agentic Payments Framework: What “Intent Services” Mean

Every card network is racing to answer the same question: how do you let an AI agent spend a person’s money safely? The EMVCo agentic payments framework, published this week, is the card industry’s standards body stepping into that race not with its own payment product, but with a shared foundation the whole industry can […]

India Is Building a Way for AI to Pay Your Bills
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India Is Building a Way for AI to Pay Your Bills

AI agents can soon pay your grocery order, your electricity bill, or your monthly subscription, without you tapping a single button. India may be about to make that real for hundreds of millions of people who use UPI.

An AI agent in payments and fintech is a software program that can act on behalf of a person or business to handle financial tasks automatically. These digital AI tools can make decisions and carry out financial transactions for you quickly, securely, and without constant human input, given they are supported by next-gen payment systems.