Visa just wired ChatGPT to shop and pay on your behalf — an AI agent can now buy at any Visa merchant without you clicking “buy.” It capped a week where the labs pushed autonomy and capital to new highs: Anthropic put Claude Fable 5, its most powerful public model, into everyone’s hands; Jeff Bezos…

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Visa has linked its payment infrastructure to ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to recommend retail products and execute financial transactions. The deployment removes human intervention from the final stages of the retail funnel. Autonomous agents will now process user prompts, evaluate merchant catalogues, and complete the checkout process using Visa’s payment rails at any supporting merchant.…

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If your remit is to help your organisation add AI agents to accelerate its processes, you have to start at the foundation – and that means making your data available for AI consumption. Agentic AI scales on data strength, as Niels Zeilemaker, global CTO at Xebia, explains. “If you don’t think about that, you can…

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The phrase “agentic AI” has moved from the whitepapers of research labs into the boardrooms of the Fortune 500, the pitch decks of venture-backed startups, and the strategy documents of governments trying to make sense of what is happening to the global economy. Yet for all the noise, a surprisingly small number of the people…

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Insider Brief Neura Robotics has secured a Series C funding round of up to $1.4 billion to expand deployment of its cognitive robots and humanoids and further develop its physical AI platform. The round includes backing from investors and strategic partners including Tether, Qualcomm Technologies, Amazon, Nvidia, Bosch, Schaeffler, the European Investment Bank, Lingotto Horizon,…

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Amazon has launched an AI-powered merchandise design feature inside its Shopping app, allowing users in the United States to generate custom products through Alexa prompts with no design skills required. Through the company’s existing Merch on Demand print-on-demand service, customers can describe an idea to Alexa and have it rendered as a design across a…

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OpenAI has filed confidentially for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced Monday, entering a public market race alongside rival Anthropic, which filed just over a week earlier. The offering could value OpenAI, which counts roughly 900 million weekly active users, at close to its last private valuation…

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Insider Brief Willow, an agentic access governance platform founded by former Wix engineers, has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding led by Hetz Ventures, with angel backing from Wix Co-Founder and CEO Avishai Abrahamiand President Nir Zohar. The platform addresses a growing enterprise security gap — with 65% of companies reporting AI agent-related incidents…

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European AI development startup Lovable has crossed $500 million in annualized revenue run rate, up from $400 million reported in February, marking continued rapid growth for a company founded in late 2023 that has not yet reached its third anniversary. The platform, which allows non-technical users to build software through natural language prompts, says it…

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Insider Brief The World Economic Forum has named 100 companies from 23 countries to its 2026 Technology Pioneers cohort, with roughly half focused on artificial intelligence, robotics and the infrastructure needed to support the next generation of AI systems. According to the Forum, many of the selected companies are developing technologies for autonomous AI agents,…

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