The competition for AI leadership extends beyond Silicon Valley, with Microsoft making a $30 billion commitment to AI and cloud infrastructure in the U.K.Google is focusing on internal research to anticipate and mitigate the risks of advanced AI models, including self-preservation and avoidance behaviors.The industry’s largest firms are positioning for growth under mounting regulatory and policy scrutiny by investing in technology and addressing potential risks.Amazon, Google and Microsoft set out their lat ...

The announcements from PayPal, Google and Mastercard are about building the infrastructure for agentic commerce when it arrives, Aaron McPherson, principal at AFM Consulting LLC, told American Banker, noting there is not a lot of consumer demand for agentic commerce at this point, but there are "numerous problems to be solved."Mastercard additionally released Agent Sign-Up, which lets the card network's Agent Toolkit users identify AI agents and access AI-enabled Mastercard products. Other products are Insi ...

Uber Freight announced at Deliver 2025, its annual conference, that it had upgraded the AI capabilities available on its platform in an effort to make logistics simpler and more efficient.While the work stemming from those partnerships has not yet come to life at scale, the hope is that linking payment systems with existing AI shopping applications can allow for a truly autonomous experience that would see assistants purchasing items on consumers’ behalf based on a specific inquiry.The move comes a few mont ...

In Brief PayPal announced on Wednesday a new multi-year partnership with Google that will see the payments giant using Google’s AI technology to create new AI-powered shopping experiences. PayPal’s solutions, meanwhile, will be integrated across Google’s products, and PayPal will work with Google Cloud on hosting and improving its technology infrastructure.The companies did not detail what specific types of agentic shopping experiences they would work together to create, but said Google would contribute its ...