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Visa Intelligent Commerce Gives AI Agents a Wallet. DBS Bank Is the First to Try It.
DBS Bank is piloting Visa Intelligent Commerce, a framework that lets AI agents search for products, choose options, and complete real purchases using bank-issued credentials. It is the first system in Asia-Pacific where an AI agent can spend your money -- with the bank still controlling the guardrails.
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Microsoft Warns That 'Summarize With AI' Buttons Are Secretly Poisoning Your AI Assistant's Memory
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Spotify's Top Developers Have Not Written Code Since December. Here Is What That Means for Your Business.
Spotify CEO Gustav Soderstrom revealed that the company's most senior engineers have not manually written a single line of code since December 2025. They generate code with AI and supervise it. This is not a pilot program. It is how a 10,000-person tech company now ships software.
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Samsung Reboots Bixby as a Full AI Agent With Perplexity Search Built In
Samsung officially relaunched Bixby as a conversational AI device agent powered by Perplexity search in the One UI 8.5 beta. It understands natural language, controls device settings by intent, and pulls real-time web results without opening a browser. Here is what it means for businesses that rely on mobile workflows.
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ggml.ai Joins Hugging Face: The Local AI Pipeline Just Became End-to-End
The team behind llama.cpp and the GGUF format has officially merged with Hugging Face. For small businesses running AI locally, this is the most consequential infrastructure move of the year.
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Small Business AI·
Gartner Says Half of Companies That Cut Customer Service Staff for AI Will Rehire by 2027
A new Gartner survey shows 91% of service leaders face executive pressure to deploy AI now. But a separate Gartner prediction warns that half the companies that replaced human agents will be hiring them back within two years. Here is what small businesses can learn from the coming correction.
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Small Business AI·
Google Just Gave Every Small Business a Free AI Photo Studio
Google Labs launched Photoshoot in Pomelli, a free tool that turns basic product snapshots into professional studio and lifestyle images using AI. If you have been putting off product photography because of cost, that excuse just disappeared.
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Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: The Most Powerful Agentic and Coding Model Yet
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is now live on Vertex AI and the Gemini API. With state-of-the-art ARC-AGI-2 scores, 83.9% SWE-Bench Verified, and a new Medium thinking level, this is the model that changes the math for businesses building with AI.
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Small Business AI·
ElevenLabs Just Made AI Voice Agents Insurable. Here Is Why That Changes Everything for Small Businesses.
The first-ever insurance policy for AI voice agents is here, backed by the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company. For small businesses that have been waiting on the sidelines, the liability question just got answered.
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World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands 3D Space -- and Autodesk Just Bet $200 Million on It
Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence startup just closed a $1 billion round backed by NVIDIA, AMD, Autodesk, and Fidelity. Their Marble model generates editable 3D worlds from text and images. If your business works with physical spaces, products, or design, this is the AI shift to watch.
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Google Builds a Gigawatt-Scale AI Hub in Vizag While Altman Says AI Costs Are About to Plummet
Day 4 of the India AI Impact Summit brought Google's $15B full-stack AI hub in Visakhapatnam, Altman's prediction that AI costs will fall dramatically, and over $50 billion in new infrastructure commitments. Here is what it all means for the businesses that will actually use this stuff.
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NIST Just Launched an AI Agent Standards Initiative -- Here Is What It Means for Businesses Deploying Agents
NIST's new AI Agent Standards Initiative aims to create common security, identity, and interoperability standards for autonomous AI agents. If your business uses or plans to use AI agents, this will shape what you can deploy and how.
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