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Mastercard brings agentic payments to life in Singapore with DBS and UOB

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Mastercard has completed its first live, authenticated agent-based payment transaction in Singapore, a milestone that advances autonomous AI commerce from proof of concept to everyday use. Announced on March 4, 2026, the transaction was carried out in partnership with DBS and UOB, two of Southeast Asia’s largest banks. In the demonstration, an AI agent booked a ride to […]

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AI insurance underwriting is past the pitch deck—Gradient AI just got the capital to prove it

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AI insurance underwriting has been called the next frontier of insurtech for years. The difference now is that the money backing it has moved from venture bets into institutional conviction. On March 3, Boston-based Gradient AI securedgrowth capital financing from CIBC Innovation Banking, a lender with over 25 years of experience backing growth-stage technology companies and

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City Union Bank launches AI centre to support banking operations

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Banks have spent years buying analytics tools and automation software. Now some are taking a different step: building internal spaces where AI can be tested directly on real banking problems. One example emerged in India this month. City Union Bank recently entered a four-party agreement to create a Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence in

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The firm that never forgets: Rowspace launches with US$50M to make AI for private equity actually work

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Private equity runs on judgment–and judgment, it turns out, is extraordinarily hard to scale. Decades of deal memos, underwriting models, partner notes, and portfolio data are scattered across systems that were never designed to communicate with each other. Every time a new deal crosses a firm’s desk, analysts start from scratch, even when the answers

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JPMorgan expands AI investment as tech spending nears $20B

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Artificial intelligence is moving from pilot projects to core business systems inside large companies. One example comes from JPMorgan Chase, where rising AI investment is helping push the bank’s technology budget toward about US$19.8 billion in 2026. The spending plan reflects a broader shift among large enterprises. AI is no longer treated as a small

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Beyond the pilot: Dyna.Ai raises eight-figure Series A to put agentic AI in financial services to work

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The financial services industry has a pilot problem. Institutions pour resources into AI proofs-of-concept, generate impressive dashboards, and then quietly watch momentum stall before anything reaches production. Singapore-headquartered Dyna.Ai was built precisely to break that pattern–and investors are now backing that thesis with serious capital. The AI-as-a-Service company has closed an eight-figure Series A round

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Physical AI is having its moment–and everyone wants a piece of it

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There is a particular kind of momentum in the technology industry that announces itself not through a single breakthrough, but through the simultaneous convergence of many. Physical AI is having that moment right now–and paying attention to where it is coming from, and why, tells you more than any single product launch can. The term

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Google makes its industrial robotics AI play official–and this time, it means business

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When Google folds a moonshot into its core operations, it’s not cleaning house. It’s placing a bet. On February 25, Alphabet-owned Intrinsic–which builds AI models and software designed to make industrial robotics more accessible–officially joined Google.  The company will remain a distinct group within Google, working closely with Google DeepMind and tapping into Gemini AI models and

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Physical AI adoption boosts customer service ROI

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The adoption of physical AI drives ROI in frontline customer service by merging digital intelligence with human-like physical interaction. As businesses navigate shrinking labour pools, they are finding that simply automating routine workflows is no longer enough. A new partnership between KDDI and AVITA demonstrates how companies can address complex operational gaps through humanoid deployment.

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Santander and Mastercard run Europe’s first AI-executed payment pilot

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An artificial intelligence system has, for the first time in Europe, completed a payment inside a live banking network without a human entering the final command. Banco Santander and Mastercard confirmed that they had executed a live end-to-end payment initiated and completed by an AI agent, a software system operating within the bank’s own regulated

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