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Visa, European banks complete first AI agent purchases with real merchants
Visa and a group of European banks have moved agentic commerce from controlled test environments into real-world merchant transactions, with AI agents now completing purchases on behalf of cardholders for the first time in live conditions.
Crypto M&A funding surged 26-fold in six months, CryptoRank data shows
Crypto mergers and acquisitions reached $9.37 billion in the first half of 2026, driven by traditional finance players racing to buy rather than build their way into digital assets. According to data from CryptoRank, capital deployed through crypto M&A transactions…
Visa integrates payment network into ChatGPT for AI shopping
Visa announced Wednesday that it has integrated its payment network directly into ChatGPT, allowing the AI chatbot to autonomously shop and complete transactions on behalf of users. The move, revealed at the Visa Payments Forum 2026 in San Francisco, marks…