Artificial Intelligence

October 2, 2026 @ 6:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Yellow Card expands into Canada Nigeria-founded Yellow Card, a stablecoin infrastructure provider, enables banks, fintechs, and multinational businesses to access US dollars, manage treasury, and move money across borders. Remita app unifies bank apps Remita has launched a new, improved app that unifies multiple bank… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An attacker who exploited a flaw in Zano’s Gateway Address feature minted roughly 36.9 million unauthorized ZANO before the project reversed about a month of blockchain history, according to a post-mortem released by the team. The disclosure, published Thursday, describes two large minting events. On… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 12:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ABN AMRO Bank (ABN.AS) and Infosys (NYSE: INFY) have agreed to extend their long-running technology partnership, with a sharper focus on simplifying the Dutch lender’s IT environment and spreading artificial intelligence more widely across the organization. The announcement, issued on 30 September 2026, frames the… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 6:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Elio Mortgage has stepped out of stealth after securing $5.1 million in pre-seed capital, positioning itself as an AI-first brokerage rather than another vendor selling point tools to lenders. Motive Partners and Social Leverage led the round, with Insight Partners co-founder Jeff Horing joining as… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 1:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW) has announced the incorporation of artificial intelligence into its brokerage platform. According to a statement Schwab distributed, the investment platform has launched “Charley,” an AI assistant to support customers. Beginning in October, the service will roll out to eligible users in the… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 1:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of the Bitcoin-focused treasury company Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), has argued that digital tokens should play a larger role in how businesses raise money as artificial intelligence changes how firms are created and organized. In an essay, Saylor said AI will let… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australian lawmakers have formally invited the leaders of two major artificial intelligence companies to appear before a Senate inquiry, following revelations that an autonomous OpenAI system gained unauthorised access to government websites. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who chairs the inquiry examining artificial intelligence and data… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) is launching 24/7 trading in the US for “eligible” accounts, including equities and perpetuals, as part of its mission to become the top platform for active traders. At the same time, Robinhood shared an update on its anticipated agentic trading services. Robinhood announced… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 1:26 am By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore’s financial institutions should plan for their workforce alongside artificial intelligence adoption as AI changes jobs across the sector, Deputy Prime Minister and Monetary Authority of Singapore Chairman Gan Kim Yong said. Speaking at the Institute of Banking and Finance Distinction Evening on Sept. 24,… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 1:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A federal appeals court has sided with the US Department of Defense in its high-stakes dispute with Anthropic, allowing the Pentagon to keep the artificial-intelligence company off its military supply chain even as the startup prepares for what could become one of the largest initial… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 12:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Meta (NASDAQ: META) has taken a step beyond advertising and consumer products, launching a dedicated unit aimed at selling artificial intelligence tools directly to companies. On September 28, 2026, founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Enterprise Platform and named Chirantan “CJ” Desai, who… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 10:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Senator Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats are targeting big tech once again, as they have sent a missive to the CEOs of firms Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft, demanding that they share any tax breaks that have been received as they build out their AI… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:56 am By Michael Wong  |  

Banking software provider Oradian says banks need to overhaul their core technology infrastructure to move generative artificial intelligence from experimentation to production, as most enterprise AI pilots fail to generate measurable returns. Oradian, citing data from MIT’s Project NANDA 2025 report, said 95% of enterprise… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 7:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) used a single Monday in late September 2026 to send two messages at once: the company intends to shape how autonomous AI agents are controlled, and it still sees its own stock as one of the best uses of the cash those… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 5:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FIS (NYSE: FIS) has embedded Spade’s real-time merchant enrichment tools into its debit processing stack, giving issuing banks and credit unions cleaner merchant identities at the moment a transaction is processed. The move is aimed at statements that actually look familiar to cardholders, fewer avoidable… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Risk assets started the week on weaker footing after President Donald Trump declined to close off the chance of further US military action against Iran before November’s midterm elections. Speaking Sunday, he said he expected the conflict to be won “very soon” and that oil… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 3:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI has confirmed that its autonomous AI systems improperly interacted with websites belonging to numerous organizations worldwide, including several US federal agencies. The company notified dozens of institutions after discovering that its agents had attempted to retrieve information from government bodies, universities, and public-sector sites…. Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 2:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) has extinguished a $200 million secured credit line with Coinbase Credit and regained control of the assets that had been pledged against it. The company disclosed the transaction in a Form 8-K dated September 25, 2026, reporting that it completed a… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 2:20 am By Michael Wong  |  

Private equity major Warburg Pincus is hard‑wiring artificial intelligence into every stage of its investment process, treating AI as a mandatory lens for both new deals and portfolio value creation. Senior managing director Vishal Mahadevia, speaking at DealStreetAsia’s Asia PE-VC Summit in Singapore, said the… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 1:18 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Irregular study shows agents acting independently again Irregular looked at a self-hosted system where an open-weights model supported both a coding agent and an AI app that the agent was supposed to maintain. When given a software maintenance task, the agent altered and replaced the… Read More