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While major firms agree on a ~46% compound annual growth rate for Enterprise Agentic AI through 2030, their market size…

UK fintech funding hit its lowest level in a decade during the first half of 2026, with total capital raised…

Venmo is now accepted as a payment method on Google Play in the US, allowing users to pay for apps,…

BlackRock has launched two tokenised money market funds (BSTBL and BRSRV) to serve as reserve vehicles for stablecoin issuers, positioning…

Visa is eliminating approximately 2,600 jobs (7% of its workforce), primarily in its core technology and product divisions, and redirecting…

Samsung has launched the Galaxy Card, a credit card issued by Barclays on the Visa network with no annual fee,…

73% of tech job postings now require AI skills, up from 15% in January 2024, making AI fluency a baseline…

Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform, enabling financial institutions to issue and manage stablecoins directly, causing Circle's stock to drop…

Flex raised an additional $70 million in a Series B1 round led by Ryan Smith's Halo, bringing total equity to…

Acclaimed queer game designer Robert Yang released "Radiator Forever", a free, ever-growing compilation of his experimental titles, which he calls…

A coalition of over 140 companies including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and Coinbase launched Open USD (OUSD), a fee-free, volume-unlimited stablecoin…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, and Microsoft are among the major tech companies funding RAISE US, a new nonprofit led by former…

Agentic commerce, where AI agents compare products and complete purchases on behalf of users, is a major shift in ecommerce…

Visa partnered with OpenAI to integrate its Trusted Agent Protocol, enabling AI agents to make payments within user-defined guardrails like…

75% of C-suite executives from major corporations believe agentic AI is meeting or exceeding expectations, based on an April survey…

Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) March 2026 update adds three major capabilities: shopping carts for multi-item purchases, live catalog queries…

The FIDO Alliance, Google, and Mastercard are developing technical standards to authenticate and protect transactions initiated by AI agents, while…

The FIDO Alliance, with contributions from Google and Mastercard, is launching two working groups to develop industry standards for securing…

The author critiques modern marketing for prioritizing optics and internal metrics over genuine revenue generation, a disconnect starkly revealed when…

Qover, a Belgian embedded insurance platform, has secured a $12 million growth capital facility, pushing its total funding past $100…