Tagged: ai

September 21, 2026 @ 10:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Former PayPal and Intuit chief executive Bill Harris has rolled out Evergreen.ai, a consumer-facing application that uses artificial intelligence to deliver financial planning guidance built around a user’s actual accounts, goals, and tax situation. The product is now in public beta and is being positioned… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 12:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN] has introduced a payment handler that lets retailers take payments started by artificial intelligence assistants, using the open Universal Commerce Protocol as the shared technical language. The feature sits on Global Collect, the company’s platform for international online checkout, and is aimed… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Envestnet has signed a definitive agreement to buy Vestmark, a move aimed at strengthening its wealth-technology platform as advisors demand more advanced trading, tax, and portfolio tools. The companies announced the transaction on September 9, 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. Closing is expected in… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pave Finance, a New York firm building artificial intelligence tools for wealth advisors, has closed an oversubscribed Series A round of more than $15 million at a $100 million valuation. The capital will expand its sales and engineering staff after a $14 million seed round… Read More

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 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 @ 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 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 @ 12:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Harmony has formally proposed shutting down its independent Layer 1 blockchain and moving its native ONE token onto Ethereum. In a September 6 post, the project said pressure from state-backed attackers and AI agents had become too severe to keep operating a standalone network. Mainnet… 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 @ 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 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 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 1, 2026 @ 1:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutionally oriented digital assets platform Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) has committed a $100 million stablecoin credit line to USD.AI, a protocol that originates loans against high-performance computing hardware. The facility is intended to fund non-recourse financing for operators building artificial-intelligence infrastructure, with repayment claims anchored to… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 8:44 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

As Artificial Intelligence both simplifies and changes fraud activity, SotaTek is seeing great success with SotaShield, a platform that helps banks screen merchants, detect emerging risk patterns and reduce manual investigations. CEO Meng Khong Tong said one key is for companies to improve their onboarding… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dunamu, the company behind South Korea’s digital-asset platform Upbit, has formed a strategic alliance with Visa (NYSE: V) to build new payment and financial products at the intersection of stablecoins, cross-border transfers, and artificial intelligence. The two firms presented a joint roadmap at Visa’s Global… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 5:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Multiplier, an artificial intelligence firm focused on tools for investment professionals, has closed a $6 million seed round to advance its specialized platforms for asset management companies. The financing was led by Lux Capital, with additional backing from Y Combinator along with GoAhead Ventures, Rebel… 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 @ 6:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Scalable Capital has taken a pioneering step by opening its investment platform to external artificial intelligence assistants. Clients can now link accounts to tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, enabling natural-language analysis of holdings and trade execution. The company positions the move, branded “Agentic… Read More

August 26, 2026 @ 5:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chris Malone, who served as OpenAI’s head of data centers, has stepped down from the artificial intelligence company after roughly 17 months in the role. The move, first detailed by The Wall Street Journal based on anonymous sources and later confirmed by multiple outlets including… Read More