Tagged: agentic ai

October 24, 2026 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe has introduced Treasury for agents, a new capability that lets startups run key financial tasks through AI agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. Announced on October 21, 2026, from San Francisco and Dublin, the feature builds on Stripe Treasury, which already lets companies manage… Read More

October 22, 2026 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spanish banking group BBVA (BME: BBVA) has entered a collaboration with semiconductor leader Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) to examine ways of incorporating robust security and governance measures into artificial intelligence agents starting at the earliest stages of their development. The partnership focuses on assessing the potential… Read More

October 17, 2026 @ 3:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) and Ant Digital Technologies announced the successful completion of a technical verification exercise exploring how artificial intelligence agents could handle both service interactions and payments in a single automated flow. The pilot demonstrated an end-to-end process in which software agents identified digital… Read More

October 16, 2026 @ 12:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe’s expanding role in both cryptocurrency infrastructure and artificial intelligence-driven shopping is drawing new connections between payments, digital assets, and automated agents. Recent developments include a partnership involving Stripe-owned Privy and Ripple to support embedded wallets on the XRP Ledger, continued efforts to link AI… Read More

October 15, 2026 @ 6:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), which remains the largest US bank by assets, has moved to block outside artificial intelligence agents from gaining direct operational access to customer bank accounts. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon outlined the position during the bank’s third-quarter earnings discussion on October 13, 2026,… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has shut down Meta’s (NASDAQ: META) recently launched Muse personal AI agent from completing purchases on Amazon.com, drawing a sharp line in the emerging contest over who controls agentic shopping. The restriction took effect Sunday night, September 20, 2026. Users who asked… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 11:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kastle, a San Francisco startup focused on artificial intelligence for financial operations, has closed a $24 million Series A round to expand its platform of specialized AI agents for consumer lending. Insight Partners led the investment, with existing backers Y Combinator and Commerce Ventures returning… 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 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 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

August 30, 2026 @ 5:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Meta (NASDAQ:META) is said to be internally testing a consumer AI agent designed to complete everyday work on the open web, according to an employee memo described by BI. Internally labeled Hatch — a working name, not the expected public brand — the system is… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 3:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payouts.com and the Casper Association have joined forces to give autonomous AI systems a practical way to pay for digital goods and services. The collaboration, announced in late August 2026, positions Casper Network as a settlement layer for Payouts.com’s AgentWallet and Digital Employees products. Together… Read More

August 26, 2026 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Google Cloud has introduced a specialized artificial intelligence solution tailored for professionals in the financial sector, marking a significant step in applying advanced agentic technology to regulated industry workflows. Announced on August 25, 2026, the offering—known as Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services—targets capital markets and… Read More

August 24, 2026 @ 2:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore’s DBS Bank (SGX: D05) has expanded the use of specialised agentic artificial intelligence tools to support roughly 1,500 relationship managers and credit risk managers worldwide in handling corporate credit assessments.The initiative, announced in mid-August 2026, follows a successful pilot involving 150 staff members. The… Read More

August 19, 2026 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has announced his return to a hands-on leadership role, taking the helm as CEO of Flop Labs. The new venture centers on developing Flop Network and its native token, FLOP, positioned as essential infrastructure for what Hayes describes as the coming… Read More

August 19, 2026 @ 6:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PPRO announced a collaboration with BLIK aimed at advancing agentic commerce capabilities specifically for domestic payments in Poland. The partnership focuses on integrating the popular Polish mobile payment system into the growing ecosystem of AI-driven shopping experiences, where autonomous agents handle discovery, selection, and transactions… Read More

August 13, 2026 @ 12:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Two former executives from the mobile banking Fintech MoneyLion have secured more than $10 million in funding to launch Astraeus, an artificial intelligence-powered infrastructure platform aimed at wealth management companies. The New York-based startup seeks to solve longstanding issues of fragmented technology systems that hinder… Read More