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 [...]

Agent coordination is the missing piece in AI commerce — new AWS and Visa blueprints target the gap

With some needed infrastructure now being developed for agentic commerce, enterprises will want to figure out how to participate in this new form of buying and selling. But it remains a fragmented Wil [...]

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 [...]

OpenAI plugs Visa into ChatGPT so AI agents can shop and pay at any Visa merchant

OpenAI is wiring a payment network into ChatGPT. Under an expanded partnership announced at the Visa Payments Forum on Wednesday, AI agents inside OpenAI’s products will be able to shop and pay on a [...]

How an Oregon court became the stage for a $115,000 showdown between Meta and Facebook creators

Some of the most successful creators on Facebook aren't names you'd ever recognize. In fact, many of their pages don't have a face or recognizable persona attached. Instead, they run pa [...]

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 [...]

4chan, the internet's most infamous forum, is down following an alleged hack

4chan, the controversial forum known for birthing early meme culture and Gamergate, is down, following an apparent hack. Per Downdetector, reports of an outage began circulating late Monday evening, w [...]

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 [...]

Reflections from GLOBSEC Forum 2026: Europe’s two paths forward

Prague, late May. GLOBSEC Forum 2026, now in its 21st year, welcomed over 2,000 participants, 270 speakers, and a dense programme of conversations about AI, cybersecurity and digital trust. European t [...]