Tagged: ai

September 24, 2026 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) has published a new research paper examining how artificial intelligence and digital assets are starting to reinforce one another. Titled, The Machine-Native Economy, the note from the firm’s digital-assets team argues that widespread AI adoption could become an underappreciated source of demand… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 12:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthropic has reportedly taken a first step toward the safety framework its chief executive outlined earlier this month, naming Accenture (NYSE: ACN) as an on-site independent reviewer of its most advanced systems. The arrangement is meant to put outside scrutiny inside the lab itself, rather… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has shut down Meta’s (NASDAQ: META) recently launched Muse personal AI agent from completing purchases on Amazon.com, drawing a sharp line in the emerging contest over who controls agentic shopping. The restriction took effect Sunday night, September 20, 2026. Users who asked… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Danske Bank and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) have completed what both companies describe as Denmark’s first payment initiated and finished by an artificial intelligence agent. The pilot, announced on 21 September 2026, is an early live test of so-called agentic commerce inside a regulated Nordic bank… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Four of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence developers now face a federal antitrust complaint accusing them of working together to hold back the pace of model improvement. The proposed class action, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, names… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 10:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Former PayPal and Intuit chief executive Bill Harris has rolled out Evergreen.ai, a consumer-facing application that uses artificial intelligence to deliver financial planning guidance built around a user’s actual accounts, goals, and tax situation. The product is now in public beta and is being positioned… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 12:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN] has introduced a payment handler that lets retailers take payments started by artificial intelligence assistants, using the open Universal Commerce Protocol as the shared technical language. The feature sits on Global Collect, the company’s platform for international online checkout, and is aimed… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Envestnet has signed a definitive agreement to buy Vestmark, a move aimed at strengthening its wealth-technology platform as advisors demand more advanced trading, tax, and portfolio tools. The companies announced the transaction on September 9, 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. Closing is expected in… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pave Finance, a New York firm building artificial intelligence tools for wealth advisors, has closed an oversubscribed Series A round of more than $15 million at a $100 million valuation. The capital will expand its sales and engineering staff after a $14 million seed round… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 6:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ireland’s largest retail lender has taken another step in modernising its technology stack by deepening its relationship with Stripe, the Dublin-founded payments and financial infrastructure company. The newly announced strategic collaboration is being presented internally as a significant marker in Bank of Ireland’s broader digital… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Caroline Ellison, the former head of Alameda Research, has begun working at the nonprofit grant platform Manifund. Co-founder Austin Chen made the news public on September 11, 2026, explaining that Ellison will help improve the organization’s funding tools and study better ways to steer philanthropic… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has expanded the artificial intelligence tools inside its enterprise treasury platform, positioning the update as a more controlled way for corporate finance teams to use AI without handing over final authority on money movement. On September 10, 2026, the company said it is broadening… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) has become one of 2026’s most striking stock-market stories, as investors recast a long-familiar computer maker as a central supplier of the hardware that large-scale artificial intelligence requires. On Friday, the shares advanced about 12 percent, taking the year’s gain to roughly… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 12:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Harmony has formally proposed shutting down its independent Layer 1 blockchain and moving its native ONE token onto Ethereum. In a September 6 post, the project said pressure from state-backed attackers and AI agents had become too severe to keep operating a standalone network. Mainnet… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and Revolut have completed a tightly controlled live test in which an artificial intelligence agent initiated a real purchase on a French Revolut Visa card, authenticated through Visa Payment Passkeys rather than a one-time code, PIN or manual card entry. The trial,… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French artificial intelligence company Mistral AI has closed a major new financing that underscores Europe’s push for greater technological independence in the sector. The Paris-based firm said it has secured €3 billion in a Series D round that values the company at more than €21… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has publicly rejected a high-profile forecast that artificial intelligence will trigger a sharp collapse in Bitcoin. In a September 7 exchange on X, he said he stands on the opposite side of a claim that AI will erode confidence in Bitcoin’s… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) has closed its purchase of Dasseti, folding the specialist’s artificial-intelligence tools for due diligence and ongoing manager oversight into Nasdaq eVestment. The deal, first unveiled on July 23, 2026 and completed on September 2, extends a relationship that began when Nasdaq Ventures… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 1:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutionally oriented digital assets platform Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) has committed a $100 million stablecoin credit line to USD.AI, a protocol that originates loans against high-performance computing hardware. The facility is intended to fund non-recourse financing for operators building artificial-intelligence infrastructure, with repayment claims anchored to… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 8:44 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

As Artificial Intelligence both simplifies and changes fraud activity, SotaTek is seeing great success with SotaShield, a platform that helps banks screen merchants, detect emerging risk patterns and reduce manual investigations. CEO Meng Khong Tong said one key is for companies to improve their onboarding… Read More