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Mastercard completed its first fully authenticated “agentic commerce” transaction in a controlled demo at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. The test signals that payment networks are preparing for a future where software agents, not humans, execute transactions. According to reporting from the Times of India, the demonstration showed an
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More than 90% of firms report no measurable headcount change from artificial intelligence over the past three years. The finding tempers fears of rapid labor displacement while signaling that enterprise AI remains in an early deployment phase. The data comes from a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper produced
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Demis Hassabis says artificial intelligence risks need urgent action. The Google DeepMind CEO is pressing governments to coordinate on baseline safety rules as models become more autonomous and more widely deployed. The warning lands as “agent” systems move from demos into workflows. Hassabis, speaking to Bloomberg Television from an AI
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About one-third of global organizations now use generative artificial intelligence in at least one function, according to McKinsey’s 2024 global AI survey. That benchmark frames Coca-Cola’s shift from price-led growth toward AI-driven persuasion as inflation pressures ease across key consumer markets. Recent reporting from Mi-3 shows Coca-Cola executives
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The Trump administration is planning a “Tech Corps” inside Peace Corps. The goal is up to 5,000 deployments over five years, aimed at pushing US artificial intelligence (AI) tools abroad and reducing uptake of Chinese alternatives. That would turn technical implementation into a foreign-policy lever. A US official said
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Many corporate treasury teams still manage core liquidity functions on Excel despite two decades of digital finance investment. That operational gap is limiting how quickly enterprises can deploy artificial intelligence across mission-critical cash and risk systems. Ashish Kumar, head of Infosys Oracle Sales for North America, and CM Grover, Chief
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Financial institutions are shifting from AI pilots to fully operational decision engines in 2026. The change signals that generative artificial intelligence is moving from workflow assistance into regulated, revenue-linked production systems. Early deployments focused on drafting content and improving isolated processes. Now chief information officers are redesigning architecture so AI
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ByteDance is recruiting for nearly 100 US roles in its artificial intelligence unit. The push signals the TikTok owner is still building frontier-model capacity on US soil, even after years of national security pressure. The hiring also widens the talent fight with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The openings sit within
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Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5 model matches leading proprietary systems while running on comparatively modest hardware. The release challenges the pricing power of US-hosted frontier models by pairing benchmark-level performance with open-weight economics. The flagship model contains 397 billion parameters but activates only 17 billion per token through a Mixture-of-Experts
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Goldman Sachs is expanding its use of generative artificial intelligence, rolling out systems built on Anthropic’s Claude model to support trade accounting and client onboarding operations. The move, reported by American Banker, reflects a broader shift among major financial institutions toward using AI to streamline back-office functions. While banks
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NatWest Group has significantly broadened its use of artificial intelligence across its business, embedding the technology into customer service, wealth management, software development and fraud prevention. According to chief information officer Scott Marcar, 2025 marks the first year the bank has deployed these AI systems at scale. The goal is
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As artificial intelligence reshapes how people search for and consume information, news publishers are facing a pivotal shift. Increasingly, audiences encounter headlines, summaries, and analysis through AI-driven search engines and conversational tools before they ever visit a news website. For Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad, this change is more than a