Tagged: agentic ai

January 12, 2026 @ 1:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

ChannelEngine’s Marketplace Shopping Behavior Report 2026, reveals that while AI is now part of the shopping journey, trust, transparency, and confidence still determine where purchases are completed. Based on a survey of 4,500 marketplace shoppers across the US, UK, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, the… Read More

December 30, 2025 @ 5:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) has announced its acquisition of Manus AI, a Singapore-headquartered startup specializing in autonomous artificial intelligence agents. The move aims to enhance Meta’s capabilities in deploying versatile AI tools across its ecosystem of consumer apps and enterprise solutions. Manus AI, known for its… Read More

December 21, 2025 @ 2:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CB Insights noted that the ongoing race to build various foundation models has evolved into battles across different agent platforms, infrastructure layers, and vertical apps. CB Insights also mentioned that 2025 saw the emergence of 1,000+ agentic AI offerings promising the so-called next evolution of… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 5:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, announced the launch of its Agentic Product Protocol, which is described as being a new open standard that makes every product on the internet discoverable as well as more understandable by AI agents. As AI becomes… Read More

December 14, 2025 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from Checkout.com indicates that this festive season will mark a key turning point for agentic AI adoption, as consumers increasingly turn to intelligent digital agents in order to “manage the stress, cost and complexity of peak-season shopping.” With almost half or 47% of consumers… Read More

November 23, 2025 @ 8:01 am By Michael Wong  |  

Agentic AI startup Genspark has raised $275 million in an oversubscribed Series B round that values the company at $1.25 billion post-money, as investors bet businesses will adopt software that completes work autonomously rather than only chatting with users. The financing was led by Emergence… Read More

November 15, 2025 @ 11:48 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Agentic AI is poised to reshape the way consumers shop online, making agentic commerce strategies critical for retailers, Bain & Company finds in a new report Agentic AI in Retail: How Autonomous Shopping Is Redefining the Customer Journey. But while shoppers increasingly use Generative AI, around… Read More

November 10, 2025 @ 3:49 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Billtrust, a provider of B2B accounts receivable workflow and payment software, this week announced the launch of Collections Agentic Procedures, a capability within its Collections solution. Collections Agentic Procedures replaces static playbooks with adaptive methods that learn from every customer interaction and recommend the most… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 3:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The majority or 84% of workers are eager to adopt agentic AI in their current role, however, most or 56% are concerned about their own job security working alongside AI agents, highlighting a seemingly urgent “disconnect.” Employees are prepared and keen to leverage agentic AI,… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 12:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) has introduced Trusted Agent Protocol, forming a foundational framework for agentic commerce that allows for more secure communication between AI agents and merchants. Trusted Agent Protocol aims to address the challenges facing agent-driven commerce, ushering in an era where AI is… Read More

October 12, 2025 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle revealed that it is currently incubating prototypes and products at the intersection of crypto and AI. It is said to be working on a machine-to-machine micropayments solution. Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase — one that appears to be increasingly defined by agency…. Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 2:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ant International, a global digital payment, digitisation, and financial technology provider, today officially launched AI SHIELD to protect AI systems from threats and vulnerabilities, a toolkit to “help AI-powered financial services stay secure and compliant as AI transforms global finance.” Ensuring security is at the… Read More

September 29, 2025 @ 4:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The professional services landscape is undergoing a shift as artificial intelligence algorithms are leveraged to enhance operations. According to a recent CB Insights report, enterprise demand for AI is surging, with intelligent agents transforming workflows across industries. In 2024, private AI agent solutions and their… Read More

September 21, 2025 @ 2:19 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Sift’s Q3 2025 Digital Trust Index reveals that account takeover attacks targeting the fintech and finance industry have surged 122% year-over-year. Travel and ticketing platforms also faced significant increases with a 56% year-over-year rise in account takeover attacks, as fraudsters target accounts rich with loyalty… Read More

September 7, 2025 @ 8:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Spinwheel, an agentic AI-powered credit data and payments platform, has received a strategic investment from Citi Ventures. The funding will support Spinwheel’s continued go-to-market growth, expand its agentic AI platform, and build out its data sets and product offerings. In addition, Citi Ventures will advise… Read More

August 30, 2025 @ 3:46 pm By Michael Wong  |  

About 70% of organisations in the Asia Pacific expect agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to significantly disrupt their business models within the next 18 months, with the banking sector likely to see the largest impact, Moneythor said. Vivek Seetharaman, Chief Product Officer at Moneythor, a provider… Read More

May 28, 2025 @ 11:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Deloitte announced the launch of its Global Agentic Network to help scale AI-driven digital workforce capabilities in organizations around the world. The initiative leverages Deloitte’s global alliances and technology relationships to create “a connected ecosystem of AI business agent offerings, which will augment and automate… Read More

March 25, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ever faced frustrating wait times with your bank’s customer service or wished for 24/7, personalized financial support? The solution lies in the next innovative wave: Agentic AI. Agentic AI represents a leap in technology—an autonomous system that not only sets goals but also analyzes, decides,… Read More

March 22, 2025 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The EY organization announced its artificial intelligence (AI) EY.ai Agentic Platform, created in collaboration with NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) . Built on the full NVIDIA AI stack – including NVIDIA AI Enterprise and the new NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint, AI-Q – the platform will integrate private, domain-specific NVIDIA… Read More

March 6, 2025 @ 1:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

Skyfire issued a statement today indicating it has exited Beta after reporting the rapid adoption of its services. Skyfire is a payment network for artificial intelligence. The company states that it enables autonomous transactions, enabling AI agents, LLMs and enterprises to transact securely Amir Sarhangi,… Read More