Swayable, a Y Combinator-backed AI and data science platform founded in 2018, is hiring a Senior AI/ML Engineer for its San Francisco office with a salary range of $175k–250k/yr. The role requires 5+ …
Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach is preparing the payments giant for a future where AI agents shop online, introducing 'Agent Pay' in April 2024 to vet and tokenize transactions made by AI agents. The c…
Berkshire Hathaway has accumulated roughly 106 million shares of Alphabet Inc., valued at approximately $36.6 to $37.8 billion as of June 30, 2026, making it the firm's third-largest equity holding at…
Cloudflare launched cloudflare.id, a persistent identity tool and wallet that lets AI agents verify their identity and make payments, with transactions settling in USDC on Coinbase's Base layer-2 bloc…
American Express researchers led by distinguished engineer Andras Ferenczi built a system that migrates COBOL programs to Java while preserving bugs, achieving 96.8% branch coverage on a 430-line prog…
The Linux Foundation's x402 initiative, backed by over 40 organizations including Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe, aims to create internet-native payment standards for software, enabling AI agents to mak…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, held Oct. 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, will feature over 200 sessions across six stages focused on AI strategy, agentic systems, and enterprise transformation, with …
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the airline's booking data, which covers about 70% of third-quarter revenue through advance bookings, typically leads economic headlines by 60 to 120 days. Bastian …
The Linux Foundation has launched the x402 Foundation to oversee a new open standard for digital transactions, enabling AI agents and APIs to pay for online services directly through HTTP. The protoco…
Warren Buffett revealed on July 15, 2026, that Berkshire Hathaway holds a $31 billion stake in Alphabet, making it the conglomerate's third-largest equity holding. Buffett told CNBC's Squawk Box that …
The Linux Foundation has formed a governance body for the x402 protocol, a Coinbase-developed standard enabling autonomous AI agent payments, with 40 member companies including Google, Circle, AWS, Am…
The Linux Foundation announced the operational launch of the x402 Foundation to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agents and applications, with Coinbase contributing the x402 protocol. Backe…
A Fast Company survey of 34 CEOs, including leaders of Rocket Companies, Accenture Song, Caldecott Music Group, American Express, and Anduril, reveals that agentic AI is transforming business by think…
In the first half of 2026, major payment companies including Google, Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, American Express, Ant International, and Circle have shipped infrastructure for AI agents to handle payme…
American Express now lets cardmembers redeem Membership Rewards points directly in Apple Pay on iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, offering a 0.7-cent-per-point rate at checkout with no app-switching. The feature …
Adyen launched Adyen Agentic, a modular API suite enabling AI-driven commerce through conversational channels, with early partners including American Express, Mastercard, Visa, and Salesforce. The sui…
A SimilarWeb study found that users who saw a brand recommended by ChatGPT were 2.5 times more likely to visit that brand's website within a week compared to a competitor, with AI-influenced visitors …
Top marketing executives from Duolingo, Gap, and American Express said at Business Insider's CMO Insider Breakfast that prioritizing creative risk-taking over AI and brand safety is key to success in …
Many CIOs are struggling to build agentic architecture for AI agents, underestimating the infrastructure work needed to scale responsibly, according to experts from American Express and Dell Technolog…
American Express has become the first financial institution to cover losses from AI agent purchasing errors with its new Agent Purchase Protection program, while Chargebacks911 warns that agent-initia…