Artificial Intelligence

September 14, 2026 @ 4:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HelmGuard, a London-based startup building an agentic platform for governance, risk, and compliance, has closed a $7.3 million seed round as it looks to replace slow, document-heavy assurance work with AI systems that inspect risk at the source. The financing was co-led by Infinity Ventures… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has expanded the artificial intelligence tools inside its enterprise treasury platform, positioning the update as a more controlled way for corporate finance teams to use AI without handing over final authority on money movement. On September 10, 2026, the company said it is broadening… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:22 am By Michael Wong  |  

Luminary, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform aimed at helping financial and legal professionals manage wealth transfers, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led by Ten Coves Capital as demand grows for technology to handle increasingly complex estate planning. The financing brings… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 1:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mexican fintech company Kapital has secured $125 million in additional equity and debt financing, positioning the firm to enlarge its artificial intelligence tools and push further into markets at home and overseas. The Mexico City–based lender, which describes itself as one of Latin America’s largest… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 9:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The world’s leading artificial intelligence labs have spent years competing to ship ever more capable systems. This weekend, that contest produced an unusual moment of alignment. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei published a long essay arguing that companies should deliberately ease the speed at which… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 9:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Stablecoins, in one way or another, dominate this edition of Web3 thoughts of the week. Lawyers speak out on the CLARITY Act, too. Stablecoins “The number of issuers is expanding quickly. A consortium of 21 financial institutions plans to launch a dollar stablecoin in 2027,… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 5:35 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Chime hits its Stride in $590M deal Chime has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Stride Bank, N.A. for $590 million in cash. Stride is a nationally chartered bank that has been Chime’s bank partner for more than seven years. Upon closing, Stride will… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 5:12 pm By Barry James  |  

The Existential AI-Race Seeking Rescue From The Drowning It’s T minus 10, Cape Canaveral,1962 – the height of the space race. An astronaut sits atop a NASA rocket with over a hundred tonnes of explosive propellant beneath his seat, contemplating that each component was built… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI will not list its shares in 2026, chief executive Sam Altman said, arguing that a stock-market debut would be poorly timed while the industry confronts mounting questions about safety, security, alignment, and how governments should work with leading labs. The remarks, made in an… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 3:08 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Shenzhen Xunce Technology Co Ltd plans to secure syndicated loans of up to 10 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) to finance the development of an artificial intelligence inference and computing centre, underscoring the growing capital requirements for China’s expanding AI infrastructure. The company, which provides real-time… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) has become one of 2026’s most striking stock-market stories, as investors recast a long-familiar computer maker as a central supplier of the hardware that large-scale artificial intelligence requires. On Friday, the shares advanced about 12 percent, taking the year’s gain to roughly… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) is exploring a substantial role in Anthropic’s planned public debut, according to people familiar with the discussions. The chipmaker is considering a commitment of as much as $10 billion as an early cornerstone buyer in what would rank among the biggest initial public… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 1:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) has released new research showing that consumer confidence will decide how quickly shoppers let artificial intelligence complete purchases on their behalf. The Visa Trust Index for agentic commerce, announced on September 9, 2026, measures attitudes toward a coming wave of AI-driven shopping… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 5:54 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore’s central bank is urging financial institutions to prepare for a rapid transformation driven by artificial intelligence, tokenisation, and quantum computing, while strengthening governance and cybersecurity as increasingly autonomous AI systems reshape the financial system. Chia Der Jiun, managing director of the Monetary Authority of… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 12:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CloudPay has joined a $10 million funding round for Intermezzo, a Menlo Park startup building AI-powered payroll infrastructure that other software companies can embed rather than build themselves. The round also includes Crosslink Capital, UKG Ventures, Character Capital, Behind Genius Ventures, and angel investors. Intermezzo… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A collaborative research effort involving more than 100 participants and AI coding agents has sharply lowered a widely cited measure of the quantum resources needed for a core arithmetic step in a theoretical attack on the elliptic-curve signatures used by Bitcoin and Ethereum. The work,… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK has long been known as Europe’s leading fintech hub and has punched above its weight globally. A combination of strong university-level education, an entrepreneurial culture, and a history of supporting innovation has helped it lead continental Europe in tech and entrepreneurship. Yet no… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

This past week, the media ran reports about a former Anthropic Researcher who claims he left the firm because he believes artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to a global catastrophe. The first reports emerged on WSJ.com. Researcher Jacob Coxon warned that labs are racing toward… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and Revolut have completed a tightly controlled live test in which an artificial intelligence agent initiated a real purchase on a French Revolut Visa card, authenticated through Visa Payment Passkeys rather than a one-time code, PIN or manual card entry. The trial,… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 6:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rogue agents emanating from OpenAI hijacked a German website this last spring. According to Reuters, OpenAI filed a report with the European Commission about the incident, in another scary example of AI acting on its own. OECD.AI says the rogue agents gained control of the… Read More