Mastercard Switches On AI-Agent Payments in Singapore and Malaysia
Mastercard has taken agentic commerce live in its first two ASEAN markets, letting verified AI agents pay on a cardholde...
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Commure Raises US$70M at US$7B Valuation to Deploy AI Agents Across Hospital Administration
On 19 May 2026, Commure closed a US$70 million round at a US$7 billion post-money valuation, led by General Catalyst. It...
HUMAIN ONE: Saudi Arabia's PIF-Backed AI Firm Unveils an Enterprise Operating System for Autonomous Agents, Built on AWS
Saudi Arabia's PIF-owned HUMAIN announced HUMAIN ONE on 4 May 2026, a five-module platform billed as the first enterpris...
Singapore tested government AI agents in a sandbox. The hard part was trust, not capability.
Singapore and Google ran AI agents against real government work for four months, on an air-gapped cloud, and published w...
Viktor raises US$75 million to put an AI "coworker" inside Slack and Teams
A Warsaw-built startup called Viktor has raised US$75 million from Accel to grow an AI agent that lives inside Slack and...
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 Six Weeks After 4.7 — Better Coding, Same Price, and a Pitch Built on Honesty
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on 28 May 2026, about six weeks after Opus 4.7. The headline numbers are incremental...
An LLM Agent Drove This Real Intrusion: Marimo RCE to Database Dump in Under an Hour
On 10 May an internet-exposed marimo notebook was breached through CVE-2026-39987 — and then an autonomous LLM agent too...
The AI SOC arms race lands in ASEAN: Flocks, Claude, and the agentic security stack of mid-2026
On 6 May 2026, ThreatBook launched Flocks and SafeSkill into an AI SOC category that already includes Claude-backed Acce...
Google Bets the Gemini App on Agents With 3.5 Flash and 24/7 Spark Assistant
At Google I/O 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash shipped with 4× the speed of frontier rivals and a new agent called Spark that runs...
Anthropic Ships "Dreaming" and Multi-Agent Orchestration for Claude — Netflix Among Early Adopters
On 7 May 2026 Anthropic added three features to Claude Managed Agents: Dreaming (cross-session memory consolidation), Ou...
The Wrapper Era Is Dead: How Developers Are Building Fully Autonomous AI Agent Stacks in 2026
The chatbot-wrapper era of AI development has ended. In 2026, developers are shipping autonomous agent stacks that accep...
Anthropic Takes On Wall Street: Claude's 10 Financial AI Agents Target Manual Banking Workflows
Anthropic released 10 financial AI agent templates paired with Claude Opus 4.7, which it says leads Vals AI's Finance Ag...
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