Visa and OpenAI’s agentic-commerce partnership shows the payment layer becoming the permission layer for AI agents.
Visa Partners with OpenAI to Power the Next Generation of AI Commerce
New collaboration brings Visa’s global payment network to one of the largest AI platforms and aims to support seamless, secure transactions and broader AI-powered use cases across commerce environments supported by agents SAN FRANCISCO --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun.
The Agentic Web and Original Sin
Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.
The Agentic Web and Original Sin
Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.
OpenAI co-founds the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation
OpenAI co-founds the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation and donates AGENTS.md to support open, interoperable standards for safe agentic AI.
OpenAI to acquire Ona
OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with secure, persistent cloud environments, enabling long-running AI agents across enterprise workflows.
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.
Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
A deepdive into how Codex has “taken over” OpenAI, how the frontier lab builds its agentic software factory, and the engineering challenges of one billion users. Details from inside OpenAI
Introducing OpenAI
OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.
OpenAI finalises $10 billion joint venture with PE firms to deploy AI - The Economic Times
OpenAI has launched a new venture, The Deployment Company. It has secured over $4 billion from 19 investors. This company will focus on helping businesses integrate OpenAI's AI software. The venture is valued at $10 billion and will be controlled by OpenAI. This move aims to boost AI adoption across various sectors. Rival Anthropic is also exploring similar strategies.
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Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users
Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.
OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day workweek | TechCrunch
OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts
Reddit’s signed AI licensing deals with Google and OpenAI.
OpenAI details more cases of AI agents taking unauthorized actions
OpenAI has presented new examples of what they call "AI model misalignment" from the past six months, including unauthorized file uploads, following self-generated instructions, hiding mistakes, and leveraging exposed API keys.
OpenAI connects the Dots
With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents
Amazon seeks cheaper AI alternatives as Anthropic shifts to token-based pricing
Amazon is exploring OpenAI as an alternative to Claude after a renegotiated contract with Anthropic will raise costs through token-based pricing.
