Procter & Gamble is expanding an artificial intelligence (AI) quality inspection system across its manufacturing operations worldwide, turning a tool that proved itself on individual lines into standard equipment for the whole company. The system, built with Siemens, inspects every product in real time at...
Nature abhors a vacuum, and marketplaces do, too. After all, no industry exists in a vacuum. The digital asset space is finding that out in real time, as it enters into an apparent regulatory vacuum after the Sept. 15 failure of the Digital Asset Market...
In 2024, the B2B payments conversation centered on moving businesses away from checks and toward electronic transactions. Two years later, the industry has made infrastructure advances, but two newly published research briefs from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland highlight that the hardest part of...
Block has joined the x402 Foundation to help advance open, agentic commerce, Steve Reis, head of product, Block Financial Platform, said in a Thursday (Sept. 24) blog post. As a member of this open standard for agentic payments, Block will bring its experience across payments and consumer products to the Foundation’s working groups,...
September 25, 2026
Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Sabrina Therani Agentic commerce is becoming an infrastructure race. The biggest agentic constraint today is not whether AI can shop but whether the systems surrounding that AI can determine what an agent is allowed to do, who is responsible when something goes wrong and how a machine-initiated transaction […]
September 24, 2026
Stablecoins spent years trying to prove they could move money better than banks, and they have succeeded. Announcements this week from banks, card networks, cryptocurrency exchanges and central banks show...
September 24, 2026
Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Gaurang Shah of Mastercard Agentic commerce is approaching an awkward transition point in its adoption cycle. The artificial intelligence (AI) foundation is getting good...
September 23, 2026
Amazon’s next artificial intelligence push for merchants is less about giving sellers better answers than reducing how often they need to ask questions at all. Mary Beth Westmoreland, vice president,...
September 25, 2026
Block has joined the x402 Foundation to help advance open, agentic commerce, Steve Reis, head of product, Block Financial Platform, said in a Thursday (Sept. 24) blog post. As a member of this open standard for agentic payments, Block will bring its experience across payments and consumer products to the Foundation’s working groups, continue contributing to Bitcoin Lightning support of x402 and continue […]
September 24, 2026
Anthropic, Google and OpenAI aim to launch a standards body focused on artificial intelligence (AI) by the end of this year or early next year, The Information reported Thursday (Sept. 24), citing unnamed...
September 24, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools used by healthcare providers to identify patients’ secondary medical conditions contributed nearly $1 billion in additional costs for Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers over two years,...
September 23, 2026
Bird, a provider of communications infrastructure for businesses and artificial intelligence (AI) agents, secured $450 million in debt financing, Bird Founder and CEO Robert Vis said in a Wednesday (Sept. 23) blog post. The...
