A freelance translator's accidental experiment with ChatGPT and Claude found that both AI chatbots degrade on longer documents, require constant coaching, invent plausible-sounding but false terminolo…
In a Brandweek session of Adspeak with ADWEEK, Mastercard EVP of global brand strategy and innovation Cheryl Guerin, Newell Brands CMO Nick Hammitt, and Uber Advertising head of global measurement sci…
Anthropic released a blueprint enabling retail companies to integrate AI shopping agents built on Claude into their e-commerce platforms, citing a 35% increase in online basket size and a 60% increase…
The Linux Foundation announced on 2 April 2026 at MCP Dev Summit North America that it is launching the x402 Foundation, with Coinbase contributing the x402 protocol and named intending supporters inc…
The Agentic Commerce & Payments Summit 2026, the first dedicated to agentic commerce, will take place in September in Stockholm, focusing on trust, identity, fraud, and embedded finance rather than AI…
Mastercard's Start Path program has admitted its inaugural cohort of 22 to 23 startups focused on agentic commerce, including SolvaPay and Crossmint, to build infrastructure for AI agents to initiate …
Anthropic launched a blueprint for building commerce agents on Claude, reporting that retailers using such agents see carts up to 35% larger and shoppers 60% more likely to complete a purchase. The op…
Agentic commerce is emerging as Mastercard, Cloudflare, and Olas build infrastructure for AI agents that transact, with OLAS logging 14 million agent deals and Mastercard's Agent Pay attracting over 3…
A developer's blog post explains how to implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for AI applications, focusing on the agentic variant where the model decides what to search. The post covers usin…
Visa, Mastercard, and Fiserv are founding members of the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA), a coalition of over 25 organizations announced by stablecoin payment infrastructure provider Rain on August 18…
Ant Group CEO and Alipay chairman Han Xinyi said stablecoin payments are one of four major models in the emerging global AI payments market, according to a report by PA News citing Caixin. Han identif…
AI agents completed 23.1 million stablecoin transfers via the x402 protocol in the past 30 days, with cumulative volume reaching 75 million transactions totaling about $24 million since launch, accord…
More than 100 companies, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, Capital One, Mastercard, Visa, Adobe, Oracle, IBM, Hugging Face, and General Motors, signed an open letter on August 27, 2026, …
OpenAI and more than 100 major technology companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, issued an open letter on Thursday warning that the window for defending against AI-driven cyberattacks …
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets during its Agents Week, giving AI agents a stablecoin balance and a cloudflare.pay handle for paying APIs, data, and content, but only handle claiming works tod…
Mastercard will sponsor an XRP Ledger hackathon in New York on October 24–25, 2025, featuring four tracks including protocol innovation, agentic finance, lending, and borrowing. The 36-hour event, hel…
Mastercard has joined the upcoming XRP Ledger Hackathon in New York as a sponsor, scheduled for Oct. 24–25, 2025. The 36-hour event will feature four tracks focused on protocol innovation, agentic fin…
Injective has joined the x402 Foundation as a core member, bringing its sub-second transaction finality to a payment protocol backed by AWS, Google, Visa, and Mastercard. The x402 protocol is now live…
Shinhan Financial Group (55550) and Visa will jointly build stablecoin infrastructure and AI-powered payment models in South Korea, marking the first adoption of Visa's enterprise stablecoin platform …
Less than a quarter of S&P 500 companies had AI deeply integrated into their business processes or used in production and delivery by the end of last year, according to an analysis of corporate financ…