Fintechs including Stripe, Ramp, and Brex are issuing virtual cards with per-transaction and per-merchant-category limits designed for AI agents, repurposing authorization holds as real-time circuit b…
Mercury launched Agent Cards on August 12, enabling AI agents to retrieve dedicated virtual-card credentials through its API or CLI and make online purchases within administrator-set limits. Mercury's…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has personally called the heads of more than 40 major U.S. companies to join an expanded Alliance for Critical Infrastructure, a group founded with Mastercard and Berksh…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is leading a cross-industry coalition to address AI risks to U.S. critical infrastructure, with over 40 companies from finance, energy, telecoms, and transportation expr…
Mastercard is hiring an AI Engineer for its Global Business Services Center in Pune, India, to design and implement AI and Generative AI solutions using LLMs, Agentic AI frameworks, and RAG architectu…
INTERPOL's African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, released on August 3, found that AI is linked to 55% of reported cyber incidents in Africa, with losses surging from $192 million in 2024 to $484…
Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Wallets on August 4, enabling AI agents to hold and spend money autonomously via the x402 protocol, with handle reservations now open and full funding features coming in…
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…
AI has made fraud cheaper to attempt while detection costs have barely fallen, breaking the assumption that both scale together, according to an analysis of fraud tools used by small merchants on plat…
Authoryze, a new payment-control platform, enables AI agents to make purchases across payment rails while enforcing spending limits, approvals, merchant rules, and audit trails. The service issues sin…
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…