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 has launched a new AI platform for banks to own their artificial intelligence (AI) stack.
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.
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 has become one of the first payment providers in Europe to launch a payment handler for the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).
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, 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 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 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 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.
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 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.
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 […]
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.
Most merchants still start their day the same way: log in, check a dashboard, compare money in against money out. Mark Alsentzer, Chief Technology Officer at Kurv, argues that this decades-old ritual is exactly what AI should be eliminating, not improving.
Typing a sentence to a chatbot and watching it actually buy cryptocurrency for you used to sound like science fiction. Yet, today we have MoonPay’s PayBox live inside Grok, and that idea turns into a real, working feature for anyone eager to try it.
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