Artificial Intelligence

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

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