According to Statista data, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet have dramatically increased their capital expenditures last year, with splurge predicted to accelerate in 2026, fueling an unprecedented AI infrastructure buildout across the tech industry.
Waymo just raised $16 billion to accelerate its autonomous driving expansion and scale its robotaxi business internationally. This massive funding round, one of the largest ever in the autonomous vehicle sector, underscores growing investor confidence in the future of self-driving technology.
Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, has announced support for Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a newly introduced open standard aimed at enabling agentic commerce across platforms.
Revolut has joined the ranks of agentic commerce enablers, as payment providers worldwide accelerate efforts to enable AI-driven checkout; meanwhile, consumer and merchant trust and safeguards remain a work in progress.
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, saw its market cap surpass the $4T mark for the first time as the tech giant signed a long-term partnership agreement with Apple to power its AI services, including the popular Siri assistant with Gemini AI.
CES 2026 witnessed an increasing push for global cross-industry collaboration around open-source AI models. Chinese tech companies, like Alibaba or Deepseek, were notably primary advocates for such cooperation mechanisms.
As Google turns your inbox into a virtual assistant of sorts, we decided to draft a brief overview of AI-driven features popular e-mail services offer their users.
Google has entered India’s credit card market with a UPI-linked digital offering, marking a significant step in its push into financial services.
Swiipr has partnered with Google to launch the world’s first instantly provisioned digital compensation card, enabling disrupted airline passengers to access mobile payouts within seconds without downloading an app.
Trulioo integrates with Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to strengthen the identity layer needed for secure AI-driven transaction execution.
The Business Research Company reports rapid growth driven by fraud prevention and next generation banking technology
The company describes Gemini 3 as its “most intelligent model yet,” and it is already being integrated directly into Google Search and the Gemini app, meaning users will see the upgrade immediately.
Waymo, the autonomous-vehicle subsidiary of Alphabet, announced that it is offering fully driverless robotaxi rides on U.S. freeways for the first time.
Apple is reportedly nearing a landmark agreement with Google to integrate the tech giant’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) model into a major upgrade of Siri, potentially ushering in a new era of more capable, context-aware virtual assistance for iPhone and Mac users.
Companies positioned at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud infrastructure are showing spectacular market outcomes, most vividly illustrated by chip-maker NVIDIA and the top cloud-service providers.
Agentic payments and AI commerce are high on the paytech agenda today. Their potential is undoubtedly immense, but practical implementation, as always, relies on the tech stack functionality. As we see fintech giants delivering agentic payment protocols en masse, let’s put them under scrutiny.
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