Why Agentic Payment Logic Belongs at the Payment Layer and What It Means for Merchant Control in an AI‑Driven Economy

Earlier this year, Google introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard designed to enable AI agents, businesses, and payment providers to communicate and transact through a share [...]

Bumble is letting men make the first move, dismantling the rule it was built on

Bumble is preparing to let men make the first move, a change that unpicks the single rule the dating app was built around. According to Bloomberg a coming messaging update will let men open conversati [...]

Agentic reliability and evaluations : Enterprises that got burned by a bad eval are the most likely to remove humans from the loop, not the least

Across 108 enterprises, trust in automated agent evaluation rose sharply in July — and the failure rate it is supposed to predict did not move at all. The share of organizations that fully trust aut [...]

Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations know how to govern agents but still can't meter what they cost

Across 107 enterprises, agentic orchestration is not a choice of a single platform.The typical enterprise runs three orchestration platforms at once, and selects them for flexibility across models rat [...]

Google Pixel 11 launch: Live updates as the company unveils new devices, AI features and more

Come hang out with us as we liveblog Google's Pixel 11 launch today. Our comments (not DMs) are open. [...]

Microsoft's new MAI Code 1.1 Flash gets crushed by Deepseek on both price and performance

Microsoft has released MAI Code 1.1 Flash, a code model for GitHub Copilot that's said to be 25 percent more token-efficient at a quarter of the cost of its predecessor. In benchmarks, though, it [...]

Japanese self-driving startup Turing is planning a U.S. office and eyeing a $10B IPO

The Tokyo-based company wants to open a U.S. office within a year and list on a U.S. exchange by around 2031 [...]

Nvidia's Nemotron 4 aims for one trillion parameters, a scale Chinese labs already surpassed

Nvidia is working on Nemotron 4, a new open-weight model designed to rival the world’s best freely available models.<br /> The article Nvidia's Nemotron 4 aims for one trillion parameters [...]

I'm on the hunt for the best Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold preorder deals — huge trade-in discounts and free Pixel Watch offers

Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold preorders are now open, so I've searched through all the major retailers and networks to bring you the best deals, including where to find massive trade-in discounts and [...]