Throwback Thursday: 5 Great Business Giants That Started in Garages
All you need to launch a thriving business is an idea, capital, a place, and a little bit of luck. However, the practice has shown that some of these points can often be omitted
SBC Summit Returns to Lisbon for a Record-Breaking Year
SBC Summit, the betting and iGaming industry’s flagship conference and exhibition, today welcomes 40,000 delegates to Lisbon for its third consecutive year in the Portuguese capital, and its most ambitious edition to date.
Nvidia Launches Open Agent Safety Platform After String of AI Agent Security Incidents
Nvidia has released a new software platform designed to keep AI agents from breaking out of the boundaries they’re supposed to operate within. The company unveiled the Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday, positioning it as a direct response to a run of security incidents that have hit some of the biggest names in AI […]
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.
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.
Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Google Pay: Mobile Wallets Compared
We’ve considered the weak and strong points of these systems, so the choice is yours
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).
Toast and Google Put Agentic Ordering Into Live Payments Workflows
Google’s latest update to Maps brings agentic food ordering into its Ask Maps experience. Toast and Square are among the first services supporting orders.
What Is a Digital Wallet?
The thing that lets you pay with your smartphone at the store checkout without ever fumbling with your bank cards or cash banknotes is called a digital wallet. We might use it every other day, but never stop to figure out how exactly it functions. This article aims to explain the main types of digital […]
Open Banking vs Open Finance: What Changes When FiDA Arrives in 2027
Open banking and open finance are often treated as the same idea at different stages of maturity. That framing is no longer accurate. The regulatory scope, the participants, and the political stakes have diverged enough that open finance now needs to be understood as its own contest centred on which companies get to sit inside […]
Is It Safe to Link Your Bank Account to an AI Shopping Agent?
Skillful AI shopping agents can now find a product, fill a cart, and pay for it without the user even opening a browser tab. Amazon, Google, and OpenAI have each shipped a version of this over the past year, though all three do not work the same way. The safety question therefore is not as […]
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
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
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
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?
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?
