Agentic Commerce Gets Rails: Mastercard Wires Its Network to Base, Anthropic Ships the Shopper
Mastercard opened agentic payments twice in one day - early access plus a Bazaar MCP marketplace on Base - wiring its network to Coinbase, Base and Cloudflare, …
Claude Duet launches, Flint hits 150 tps, OpenAI lands on Google Cloud
Anthropic rolled out Claude Duet, a proactive iOS/Android AI assistant built on Opus 5.5, with auto‑mode classification and managed‑agent credential guards. …
Ramp files for OCC trust charter, Mastercard and Visa ship agentic rails, fintech VC drops 21%
Ramp has applied for an OCC national trust bank charter following a $1.85 billion raise, pairing the move with an acquisition of treasury platform Vesto. …
OpenAI snaps up Orchestra Bio, Salesforce buys Braze, and AI‑driven PHP bugs shut sites
OpenAI’s $X‑billion buy of Orchestra Bio merges AI drug‑development agents with its Rosalind platform, aiming to automate clinical‑study handoffs. Salesforce’s …
OCC Finalizes GENIUS Act Rule, Utah Cracks Down on Kalshi, and Mastercard AI Agents Go Live
The OCC released its final GENIUS Act stablecoin rule, opening a pathway for banks and non‑banks to issue payment stablecoins from Jan 18, while still banning …
Anthropic ships Claude Duet, Musk pushes Tesla-SpaceX merger, and zero-days hit PHP and Node
Anthropic launched Claude Duet, an enterprise-oriented autonomous agent connecting to over 6,000 tools with built-in financial guardrails via Stripe and …