Visa Announces New AI, Stablecoin and Token Innovations to Power Intelligent, Programmable Commerce at Visa Payments Forum

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.

Visa Introduces AI Financial Assistant, Helping Banks Guide Customers from Insight to Action

AI Financial Assistant brings conversational financial guidance into the banking apps consumers already trust for spending and saving. The Visa Value ‑ Added Service applies benchmarking insights informed by one of the world’s largest payment networks to deliver personalized recommendations.

Artificial Intelligence for Economic Development Conference: Roundup of 27 presentations

Is artificial intelligence the future for economic development? Earlier this month, a group of World Bank staff, academic researchers, and technology company representatives convened at a conference in San Francisco to discuss new advances in artificial intelligence. One of the takeaways for Bank staff was how AI technologies might be ...

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.

State of AI 2026 | The Industry-Defining Report

Explore how AI is shaping the digital economy in 2026, with 80+ pages of data on ad spend, app downloads, web behavior, user demographics, and so much more.

AI Economy Institute - Microsoft Research

The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is Microsoft’s flagship think tank dedicated to shaping an inclusive, trustworthy AI economy. We building a network of scholars and convening that network with our subject matter experts to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming work, education, and productivity – and making this knowledge base available to policy-makers, educators, and […]

AI Offers Lifeline to Developing Economies in an Era of Weak Growth

Press release regarding the launch of the World Bank World Development Report 2026: Artifical Intelligence.

AI Becomes the UI: When business logic moves to the AI tier, dashboards fade, and agents become the interface

In 2025, the Innovation Office at ServiceNow underwent the first phase of its transformation to study and produce original, future-forward research and thought leadership around AI business transformation, the future of work, quantum, the future of industries, smart spaces, and prototype innovative possibilities never imagined on the ServiceNow platform.

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.

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Agent payments get rails · Sensemaker

Visa and OpenAI’s agentic-commerce partnership shows the payment layer becoming the permission layer for AI agents.

Google Cloud Next 2026: The End Of The AI Pilot Era

Google Cloud Next 2026 opened with Thomas Kurian declaring the end of the AI pilot era and Sundar Pichai comparing the enterprise refrain of last year (“Can we build an agent?”) to today’s: “How do we manage thousands of them?” Google Cloud Next ’26 answers the second question with a single product story: Gemini Enterprise […]

March 2026 Global Dialogues Survey | Windfall Trust

Here’s what the world had to say about the AI economy

Consumer Finance AI Standard

AI (artificial intelligence) is making consequential decisions about consumers’ financial lives, including who gets access to credit, which claims get paid, what financial products consumers are shown, and how users are advised to manage their accounts, among many others. It’s doing this at scale, largely out of sight, and with almost no accountability when it