Artificial Intelligence

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

September 9, 2026 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A researcher who helped train frontier models at two of the world’s leading AI laboratories has left Anthropic, arguing that the industry’s sprint toward systems that can improve themselves is an unacceptable gamble with human survival. Jacob Coxon, 27, spent three years on pretraining work—the… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French artificial intelligence company Mistral AI has closed a major new financing that underscores Europe’s push for greater technological independence in the sector. The Paris-based firm said it has secured €3 billion in a Series D round that values the company at more than €21… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 1:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthropic has published a new toolkit designed to help companies stand up conversational shopping and operations assistants on Claude, and payment networks Visa and Mastercard are among the partners helping merchants put those templates into production. The company framed the release as a practical “blueprint”… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 7:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paris-based startup Outline has closed a $3 million seed round as it seeks to give finance leaders an alternative to the monthly grind of rebuilding forecasts in spreadsheets. Founders Future led the financing, with 100in, Newschool and a group of industry angels also participating. Among… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) is positioning itself for a coming shift in how people and companies buy and sell online. According to the payments network, autonomous software agents will play a growing role in digital commerce, moving from helpful assistants to systems that can search, compare, decide… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has publicly rejected a high-profile forecast that artificial intelligence will trigger a sharp collapse in Bitcoin. In a September 7 exchange on X, he said he stands on the opposite side of a claim that AI will erode confidence in Bitcoin’s… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 5:17 am By Michael Wong  |  

Saudi Arabia’s Al Qadsiah Club has signed a memorandum of understanding with cybersecurity provider LogRhythm | Exabeam to explore the use of cloud-based security and AI  tools to protect the sports club’s growing digital operations. The agreement, signed on the sidelines of technology conference LEAP… Read More

September 6, 2026 @ 9:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial privacy is entering another period of public scrutiny. Grayscale Investments argues that artificial intelligence is accelerating that shift by making it easier to link public financial records to real people. In research published at the end of August 2026, Head of Research Zach Pandl… Read More

September 6, 2026 @ 9:13 am By Michael Wong  |  

Hong Kong-listed Capital Industrial Financial Services Group is considering acquiring a 24.84% stake in a Chinese robotics-focused financial leasing company as it seeks to expand into robotics and intelligent manufacturing, according to a disclosure filed with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX). The company has… Read More

September 5, 2026 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Incore Bank has completed a proof-of-concept project that explores how agentic artificial intelligence can speed digital customer onboarding while automating large parts of the risk-assessment process. The trial, conducted with technology services firm Kyndryl and Google Cloud, used Google’s Gemini models together with Kyndryl’s agentic… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI has reportedly pledged $1 billion in subsidized access to its Daybreak cybersecurity tools, training, and technical support for organizations that guard essential public services. The commitment, announced September 3, 2026, is designed to be used over roughly the next six months and begins with… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) has closed its purchase of Dasseti, folding the specialist’s artificial-intelligence tools for due diligence and ongoing manager oversight into Nasdaq eVestment. The deal, first unveiled on July 23, 2026 and completed on September 2, extends a relationship that began when Nasdaq Ventures… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 12:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has reached an agreement to buy Tokyo-based COMWARE Co., Ltd., a move designed to expand its mid-market offering in Japan and deepen the capabilities of Accenture Edge, a unit created in June 2026 to help smaller and mid-sized firms use artificial intelligence… Read More