2025-10-14

Visa just launched a protocol to secure the AI shopping boom — here’s what it means for merchants

Visa is introducing a new security framework designed to solve one of the thorniest problems emerging in artificial intelligence-powered commerce: how retailers can tell the difference between legitim [...]

2025-07-10

Apple, Mastercard and Visa's antitrust lawsuit over payments has been dismissed

Apple, Mastercard and Visa have successfully dodged a lawsuit that claimed the companies were colluding to maintain the current status quo in point-of-sale-payment card services, Reuters reports. The [...]

2025-02-28

Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

2025-09-20

Trump administration to impose a $100,000-per-year fee for H-1B visas

President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order, which adds a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. It's not a one-time fee either: The New York Times has reported that companies will h [...]

2025-09-29

OpenAI debuts new ChatGPT 'buy' button and open source Agentic Commerce Protocol

The next time you order something online, it may be through ChatGPT — at least if OpenAI and online payments provider Stripe have anything to say about it.The two companies today announced a new fea [...]

2025-10-16

Google vs. OpenAI vs. Visa: competing agent protocols threaten the future of AI commerce

When Walmart and OpenAI announced that the retailer would integrate with ChatGPT, the question became how quickly OpenAI could deliver on the promise of agents buying things for people. In the battle [...]

2025-01-28

X’s payments app will be available later this year

It seems that X is getting ready to finally roll out the payments app the company’s leaders have long been promising The company will introduce X Money later this year with Visa as partner, CEO Lind [...]

2025-01-02

The 6 best Mint alternatives to replace the budgeting app that shut down

It's been almost one year since Intuit shut down the popular budgeting app Mint. I was a Mint user for many years; millions of other users like me enjoyed how easily Mint allowed us to track all [...]

2025-04-24

CivitAI Tightens Deepfake Rules Under Pressure From Mastercard and Visa

CivitAI, possibly the most popular AI model repository on the internet, has finally conceded to pressure from payment facilitators MasterCard and Visa to radically revise their policies on NSFW conten [...]