Circle launched the Arc mainnet, an open Layer 1 blockchain for financial markets and agentic activity, with more than 100 applications and over 100 institutions and ecosystem builders live, and compl…
Circle launched the Arc Layer 1 mainnet on Wednesday with more than 100 institutional and ecosystem partners, including founding validators BlackRock, DTCC, ICE, Mastercard, Visa, Standard Chartered a…
Stripe introduced its Shared Payment Token (SPT) in October 2025 as a programmable, revocable primitive for agent-initiated transactions, and as of March 3, 2026 the platform supports Mastercard Agent…
Ant International, Mastercard and Visa announced in September 2026 that they are jointly developing a shared Know Your Agent (KYA) interoperability framework to verify AI agents authorized to make pay…
OpenAI entered public beta with its Agents API on September 10, exposing the internal Codex orchestration harness through a managed endpoint with session lifecycle management, context compaction, auto…
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International announced a joint framework on September 9 called Know-Your-Agent (KYA) that lets their separate AI agent verification systems recognize each other, coordinated …
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard's agentic commerce framework lacks a unified merchant-side integration standard, leaving three competing verification protocols — Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol,…
Ant International partnered with Visa and Mastercard to develop an interoperable "Know Your Agent" framework for verifying and monitoring AI agents that initiate payments, Ant International announced …
Welcount, a fintech startup founded by CEO Rooh Savar, is using Microsoft Azure and AI to help newcomers to Europe open bank accounts and access financial services, in one case verifying a relocating …
Microsoft shipped nearly 1,000 patches on September 8, 2026, pushing its total software patches for 2026 past the combined totals for all of 2025 and 2024, according to Zero Day Initiative's Dustin Ch…
Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International, the global arm of China's Ant Group, announced a "know-your-agent (KYA) interoperability framework" this week to support agentic commerce operations. The three…
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard announced a Know Your Agent (KYA) interoperability framework in São Paulo on September 10, 2026, targeting cross-network operator traceability, shared certifica…
Ant International, Visa and Mastercard have begun developing a Know-Your-Agent (KYA) interoperability framework for AI-driven payments, working through Singapore's BuildFin.ai platform convened by the…
Ant International, Mastercard and Visa launched an initiative on Thursday (Sep 10) to develop a Know-Your-Agent interoperability framework for identifying and verifying AI agents that make purchases o…
Ant International, Mastercard, and Visa launched a joint initiative on September 10, 2026 to build a common trust framework for AI agents that make purchases on behalf of consumers, covering agent ide…
Only 23% of people trust AI agents to spend their money, according to a Forbes report by senior contributor John Koetsier, which says Visa has a plan to make agentic commerce safe, normal, and trustwo…
Three standards bodies—OWASP, NIST, and the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)—are independently writing rules for agent infrastructure, converging on a unified stack for authentication, authorization, and …
MoonPay launched PayBox, a payment vault that lets AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT make purchases on behalf of users, with CEO Ivan Soto-Wright demonstrating a flight booking via EasyJet. The produc…
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…