Google

Agentic Payments Protocol Battle Intensifies: Visa, Mastercard, x402, UnionPay Fight for AI Money Standards
Fintech & Ecommerce

Agentic Payments Protocol Battle Intensifies: Visa, Mastercard, x402, UnionPay Fight for AI Money Standards

The race to build the payment infrastructure of the AI-agent economy is entering a new phase, with global payment networks and technology companies competing to define how machines will identify, authorize and execute transactions.

EU Google Android AI Ruling Could Reshape AI-Powered Banking and Payment Apps
News

EU Google Android AI Ruling Could Reshape AI-Powered Banking and Payment Apps

The European Commission has taken one of its most significant steps yet to loosen Google’s control over the Android ecosystem, adopting binding requirements under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) that will require the company to open key Android capabilities to competing artificial intelligence assistants and share portions of its search data with eligible rivals.

Klarna Teams Up With Nordic Marketplaces Under Vend Umbrella, Wins PriceRunner vs Google Litigation
News

Klarna Teams Up With Nordic Marketplaces Under Vend Umbrella, Wins PriceRunner vs Google Litigation

Swedish fintech Klarna has secured partnership with Vend, the leading Nordic marketplaces group. The company also announced that its antitrust case brought by PriceRunner subsidiary against Google ended in Klarna’s favour.

Open USD Stablecoin Launches With 140 Fintech & Banking Partners Including Stripe And Visa
News

Open USD Stablecoin Launches With 140 Fintech & Banking Partners Including Stripe And Visa

A coalition of more than 140 companies from different areas of financial services has agreed to back Open USD (OUSD), a new stablecoin announced on June 30, 2026, and governed by an independent entity called Open Standard. The joint initiative brings together banks, payments networks, crypto platforms and technology firms with the stated goal of […]

Google Already Lets Developers Skip Its App Store Fees, Will Apple Follow the UK’s Lead?
News

Google Already Lets Developers Skip Its App Store Fees, Will Apple Follow the UK’s Lead?

Britain’s competition regulator wants to make it easier for app developers to send customers around Apple and Google’s in-app payment systems and one of the two companies says it has already gotten there first. Will another tech giant follow suit?

Global Tech Leaders Converge in Berlin to Set New AI Directions for Europe’s €1.5 Trillion Tech Economy
Science & Technology

Global Tech Leaders Converge in Berlin to Set New AI Directions for Europe’s €1.5 Trillion Tech Economy

Ministers, enterprise tech leaders, founders and investors from 80+ countries drive consensus on sovereignty, scalability and AI competitiveness at GITEX AI EUROPE 2026

iFX EXPO International Brings Big Industry Leaders to the Stage
News

iFX EXPO International Brings Big Industry Leaders to the Stage

From the 16th to the 18th of June, iFX EXPO International is set to bring together some of the most influential voices in online trading, fintech, payments, liquidity, digital assets and financial services for an agenda built around the industry’s most important conversations.

Alphabet Launches $80 Billion Equity Raise to Fund AI Infrastructure, With Berkshire Hathaway Committing $10 Billion
Science & Technology

Alphabet Launches $80 Billion Equity Raise to Fund AI Infrastructure, With Berkshire Hathaway Committing $10 Billion

On June 1, Google’s parent company Alphabet announced plans to raise $80 billion through a series of stock offerings, directing the proceeds toward expanding its artificial intelligence infrastructure. The announcement marks a notable moment in corporate finance history and reflects the growing capital demands of the AI industry.

Agentic Payments 2026: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Commerce and Payment Infrastructure
Fintech & Ecommerce

Agentic Payments 2026: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Commerce and Payment Infrastructure

Just as people, AI agents have much more possibilities to fulfil their potential if they have money to back their actions. Without the ability to transact, all the search and analysis agentic systems perform remain on theoretical level. To empower AI agents with more practical tasks, they need agentic payment mechanisms that are already emerging […]

Google Integrates Klarna & Affirm BNPL Options Into Its AI Pay Mode
News

Google Integrates Klarna & Affirm BNPL Options Into Its AI Pay Mode

Google Pay is boosting the AI Mode by embedding two popular BNPL methods from Affirm and Klarna providers into its Gemini app and Google search functionality. The update combines agentic commerce mechanisms with flexible checkout options.

Google Uncovers First Known AI-Built Cyberattack Tool
News

Google Uncovers First Known AI-Built Cyberattack Tool

For the first time, Google says it has found a cyberattack tool it believes was built with AI. The company’s security researchers uncovered a previously unknown flaw in a popular piece of software that criminal hackers were planning to exploit at scale. A patch was issued before any damage occurred. However, Google Threat Intelligence Group’s […]

AI News Roundup: Key Moves in Payments, Defense, Coding, and Talent
Science & Technology

AI News Roundup: Key Moves in Payments, Defense, Coding, and Talent

AI news roundup, April 2026: Razorpay launches agentic payments, SpaceX partners with Cursor, National Security Agency works with Anthropic, Amex introduces agentic commerce stack, while Google expands Gemini, and OpenAI attracts top talent.

Higher Efficiency, Better Performance: New Google TPU Offer Strong Alternative to Nvidia
News

Higher Efficiency, Better Performance: New Google TPU Offer Strong Alternative to Nvidia

Google unveiled two new Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) built for inference and training of next-gen AI agents. The chip market is now facing steeper competition as Nvidia GPUs are not the only ones suitable for emerging MoE architectures.

Google Rolls Out Gmail Encryption and Meet on Android Auto 
Science & Technology

Google Rolls Out Gmail Encryption and Meet on Android Auto 

Google is scaling up two of its core productivity tools this week. First, the tech behemoth is bringing end-to-end encryption to mobile Gmail for both Android and iOS smartphones. Simultaneously, the firm is quietly ushering Google Meet onto Android Auto. Though attentive expert eyes note that both rollouts carry notable strings attached that could leave […]

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Unites Tech Leaders in Face of Growing AI Power That Can Either Shatter or Supercharge Global Cybersecurity
News

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Unites Tech Leaders in Face of Growing AI Power That Can Either Shatter or Supercharge Global Cybersecurity

Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks… What do all of these companies have in common besides their massive tech industry presence? Apparently, they all care about AI models able to discover “thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web […]

AI in Fintech News Digest: From Real-Time Payments to a $5 Trillion Agentic Economy
Science & Technology

AI in Fintech News Digest: From Real-Time Payments to a $5 Trillion Agentic Economy

This week’s AI developments make one thing clear: artificial intelligence is moving deeper into the mechanics of finance, shaping how payments are approved, how trades are executed, and how financial systems are built behind the scenes.