A developer's guide details how to integrate AI-powered payments in a React JS app, combining gateways like Stripe with fraud detection, adaptive checkout, and anomaly scoring. The approach uses clien…
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…
Visa is cutting about 2,600 jobs, roughly 7% of its staff, mostly from technology and product teams, and reinvesting the savings into consumer payments, cross-border activity, business payments and st…
Visa Inc. is laying off about 2,600 workers, or 7% of its workforce, as CEO Ryan McInerney cited AI-driven efficiency gains and a need to reinvest in areas such as commercial and money-movement soluti…
HSBC is hiring more than 100 artificial intelligence specialists for its first global AI centre of excellence in Singapore, set to launch later this year, and will also add 100 wealth relationship man…
SuffrageQ has released the world's first quantum-safe election software, using ML-DSA-65 signatures and ML-KEM-768 key exchange to protect every vote from submission to final count. The open-source sy…
Investors are punishing Big Tech stocks for rising AI capital expenditures, but AMD CEO Lisa Su, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach, and IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh all report strong AI monetization and product…
Innovation theorist John Nosta warns that AI could crowd out the rare, original thinking behind humanity's biggest breakthroughs by pushing unconventional ideas toward the middle of a bell curve, crea…
Coinbase on June 24, 2026, expanded its Payments API suite to support the x402 protocol, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for digital services using USDC stablecoins on the Base network with set…
Mastercard chief marketing and communications officer Jill Kramer said AI can be an engine to foster creativity and deeper insights, urging marketers to embrace its positives. Kramer, who joined Maste…
Five competing checkout and settlement standards for agentic payments are now vying to become how software spends money, most of them less than 14 months old, with no binding statute in the US, UK, EU…
A-Comm Technologies founder and CEO Krystal Gracier opened the draft A-Comm Evidence Protocol (AEP) for public comment on July 13th, proposing a tamper-evident record for AI agent transactions that me…
Jill Kramer, chief marketing and communications officer at Mastercard, argued at Cannes Lions 2026 that the marketing industry must stop forcing itself into false binaries such as AI vs. creativity an…
A developer built ToolHail, a discovery-and-execution layer for AI agents that lets them find and use MCP servers without human intervention. ToolHail is a remote MCP server providing two tools: find_…
The Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation on July 14, 2026, an open standards body for AI agent payments, with 40 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, Google,…
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…
The Linux Foundation has launched the x402 Foundation to oversee the x402 payment protocol, an open standard enabling AI agents and applications to pay for digital services directly over HTTP. Forty o…
Circle has joined the x402 Foundation as a founding member to standardize internet-native payments using USDC, embedding payments directly into web requests via the HTTP 402 status code. The foundatio…
An international developer built api-hub.cc, a proxy service that accepts Visa and Mastercard payments for DeepSeek V4-Flash API access, after the official DeepSeek platform only accepted Alipay and W…
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…