Wayfair Participates in Google’s New Standard for Agentic Commerce

Wayfair Participates in Google’s New Standard for Agentic Commerce
Wayfair Participates in Google’s New Standard for Agentic Commerce
January 12, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Wayfair said Monday (Jan. 12) that it participated in the development of Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for agentic commerce and will soon enable shoppers...

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Citigroup to Cut 1,000 Jobs in Ongoing Restructuring Effort
Citigroup to Cut 1,000 Jobs in Ongoing Restructuring Effort
January 12, 2026  |  Personnel

Citigroup plans to cut 1,000 jobs this week as part of a restructuring plan announced two years ago, Bloomberg reported Monday (Jan. 12), citing unnamed sources. Get the...

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Capital One Gains Preliminary Approval for Revised Settlement in Class Action
Capital One Gains Preliminary Approval for Revised Settlement in Class Action
January 12, 2026  |  Legal

Capital One will reportedly pay $425 million and pay higher interest rates on certain accounts to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that depositors were...

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Google Aims at Merchants With Open-Source Universal Agentic Protocol
Google Aims at Merchants With Open-Source Universal Agentic Protocol
January 12, 2026  |  Google

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol marks a shift in how the company wants transactions to happen online. Instead of sending users from search results to merchant...

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Kroger, Papa Johns Test Gemini AI Agents for Retail
Kroger, Papa Johns Test Gemini AI Agents for Retail
January 12, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Google Cloud introduced Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience, a platform designed to help retailers deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can support shopping, ordering and...

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Betterment Says Social Engineering Attack Enabled Data Breach and Unauthorized Messages
Betterment Says Social Engineering Attack Enabled Data Breach and Unauthorized Messages
January 12, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Investing and savings app Betterment said Monday (Jan. 12) that a social engineering attack led to its customers receiving an unauthorized message promoting a crypto-related promotion...

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B2B Payments Make the Leap to Real Time in Latin America 
B2B Payments Make the Leap to Real Time in Latin America 
January 12, 2026  |  B2B Payments

Digital payments in Latin America are transforming commercial transactions, as faster payment rails originally designed to broaden consumer access increasingly support business-to-business payments and deepen engagement...

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OpenAI and Anthropic Take Different Paths to Own Healthcare’s AI Stack
OpenAI and Anthropic Take Different Paths to Own Healthcare’s AI Stack
January 12, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

The artificial intelligence (AI) race has moved from the laboratory to the clinic, marking a pivotal shift in how the digital economy’s most valuable data...

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The 3 Horsemen of B2B Progress: APIs, Data and AI
The 3 Horsemen of B2B Progress: APIs, Data and AI
January 12, 2026  |  B2B Payments

The B2B payments playbook has historically revolved around winning on cost. This made the landscape, in many ways, relatively transactional and adversarial. Get the Full...

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