Artificial Intelligence

September 21, 2026 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Four of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence developers now face a federal antitrust complaint accusing them of working together to hold back the pace of model improvement. The proposed class action, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, names… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 9:19 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Hong Kong companies need to treat artificial intelligence governance as a board-level responsibility rather than an information technology project, with directors maintaining human accountability for AI-assisted decisions, Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) Chairman Kelvin Wong said. Speaking at the Corporate Governance Conference 2026, Wong said… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 4:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A single on-chain actor appears to have struck two related artificial-intelligence crypto projects within minutes of each other on September 19, 2026, emptying a Fetch.ai conversion contract and inflating NuNet’s token supply in one coordinated burst. Security firms tracking the wallets say the same cluster… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 4:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

President Donald Trump said over the weekend that the United States will stand up a new “AI Force” and soon name an artificial intelligence czar, framing the move as a way to nurture the industry rather than restrain it. In a Saturday post on Truth… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 10:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Former PayPal and Intuit chief executive Bill Harris has rolled out Evergreen.ai, a consumer-facing application that uses artificial intelligence to deliver financial planning guidance built around a user’s actual accounts, goals, and tax situation. The product is now in public beta and is being positioned… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK mortgage overpayment app Sprive has completed a £5.5 million funding round as it seeks to help more homeowners cut interest costs and finish their loans sooner. The London company described itself as the United Kingdom’s independent mortgage overpayment app. The round was led by… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 12:40 am By Michael Wong  |  

The number of merchants using artificial intelligence to integrate payment services with Ant International has quadrupled over the past year, as the fintech company expands AI into payments, foreign exchange, treasury, and credit operations. Ant International said it expects 95% of merchants to be able… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 9:13 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Grab nabs majority Atome share for $1.49B The consumer finance play helps Grab access Atome’s lending and BNPL presence in Southeast Asia. Kaiko extends $110M Series B Kaiko provides data services for on-chain finance. The extension was led by S&P Global and included participation from… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Unsurprisingly, digital asset insiders were focused on the CLARITY Act this week. Not completely, however. Read on to find some interesting takes on several other topics. The CLARITY Act “The nation’s banks continue to support creating a strong, durable regulatory framework for digital assets… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 6:32 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Xora, a Temasek-backed investment fund, has led an additional $53 million seed round in enterprise AI services company Hang Ten Systems, bringing the startup’s total funding to $85 million. Mayfield, which led Hang Ten’s first seed round, and Aramco Ventures also participated in the latest… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Saffron Building Society has chosen FintechOS to modernise how it originates mortgages, starting with residential lending and building toward a full end-to-end process. The Essex mutual, founded in 1849 and now serving more than 118,000 members with assets above £1.5 billion, wants the new system… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European payments group Nexi and Agentic Commerce Optimization specialist ReFiBuy have joined forces to help merchants stay visible as shoppers lean more heavily on AI assistants. Announced on 17 September 2026 from Milan and Raleigh, the collaboration aims to keep product catalogues ready for evaluation,… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pave Finance, a New York firm building artificial intelligence tools for wealth advisors, has closed an oversubscribed Series A round of more than $15 million at a $100 million valuation. The capital will expand its sales and engineering staff after a $14 million seed round… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 6:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ireland’s largest retail lender has taken another step in modernising its technology stack by deepening its relationship with Stripe, the Dublin-founded payments and financial infrastructure company. The newly announced strategic collaboration is being presented internally as a significant marker in Bank of Ireland’s broader digital… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:54 am By Michael Wong  |  

Southeast Asian education officials have endorsed an expanded ASEAN Foundation program that aims to equip more than 1.7 million students, teachers and university staff with practical artificial intelligence skills by the end of 2028. The ASEAN Foundation said on Friday that the program, AI Ready… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 1:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brussels fintech Chift has closed a €10.5 million Series A round to expand the software “plumbing” that links Europe’s fragmented financial tools — and to make that plumbing usable by artificial intelligence as well as by traditional applications. The financing was led by BlackFin Capital… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 12:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Poland’s mobile payment scheme has taken a notable step into the emerging world of agentic commerce. BLIK, the account-to-account system used across Polish banking apps, has completed its first pilot in which an artificial intelligence agent independently finished an online purchase and settled it with… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Caroline Ellison, the former head of Alameda Research, has begun working at the nonprofit grant platform Manifund. Co-founder Austin Chen made the news public on September 11, 2026, explaining that Ellison will help improve the organization’s funding tools and study better ways to steer philanthropic… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Plenty of heavy hitters came out of the Labor Day weekend with product releases and partnerships, including Visa, Mastercard, Ant, Nu, and Marqeta. Visa, Mastercard and Ant to develop agent trust framework The trio hopes to build a trust framework that will help agentic commerce… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 6:26 am By Michael Wong  |  

AI-powered senior living technology company Inspiren has raised $70 million in a Series C funding round at a valuation of more than $500 million, as it looks to expand the use of artificial intelligence to help care teams monitor residents and identify potential emergencies. The… Read More