Big two weeks for AI agents: real-world payments went live, enterprise infra shipped, and web3 saw new agent-native platforms.
Here’s your full biweekly breakdown of everything that happened:
1️⃣ Mastercard brings AI-powered Agent Pay to UAE, marking its first launch outside the US to enable autonomous agentic payments.
2️⃣ Visa expands its AI agentic commerce platform to Asia-Pacific, launching an agent-based shopping/payment platform in Singapore and exploring a rollout in India.
3️⃣ Intuit signs a $100M+ deal with OpenAI, bringing autonomous financial Agents to TurboTax and QuickBooks to handle complex tax and accounting tasks directly.
4️⃣ Maxima raises $41M for its agentic AI platform, aiming to scale enterprise-agent workflows specifically for accounting and finance automation.
5️⃣ Klarna reports record Q3 revenue ($903M), citing AI Agents as the key driver for tripling revenue-per-employee efficiency and targeting its first $1B quarter.
6️⃣ Agentic AI startup Kaaj secures $3.8M, expanding its credit intelligence platform to power autonomous agent workflows.
7️⃣ Kyndryl launches “Agentic AI Digital Trust” suite, helping enterprises govern, secure, and scale Agentic AI across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
8️⃣ Levi Strauss & Co develops an Agentic AI platform, embedding an agent-native layer across its digital and physical retail operations with new e-commerce tools.
9️⃣ Optilogic launches “DataStar” Agentic AI platform, autonomously handling data-preparation and analysis workflows to free teams for strategic decision-making.
1️⃣0️⃣ Ramp hits a $32B valuation, driven by the rollout of AI Agents that have already managed over $10B in spend across 26M decisions.
1️⃣1️⃣ The first AI launchpad on Sui, “Surge,” goes live, empowering retail investors to act like VCs by launching and backing AI-asset token drops.
1️⃣2️⃣ Finzly introduces Agentic AI for banking, automating back-end payment processing for banks and credit unions to slash repetitive ops and enable real-time vendor negotiations.
1️⃣3️⃣ EMVCo kicks off global specs for Agentic Commerce, extending secure payment standards to support AI-led transactions across industries.
1️⃣4️⃣ Affirm CEO predicts autonomous AI shopping, stating Agents will soon handle full payments and recommend financial products, forcing fee transparency in retail.
1️⃣5️⃣ Brookfield Asset Management launches a $100B AI infrastructure fund with Nvidia and Kuwait Investment Authority to power enterprise-scale Agent deployments.
1️⃣6️⃣ AWS commits $50B to AI-ready cloud infrastructure for U.S. government agencies, enhancing secure agentic workflows within federal data centers.
1️⃣7️⃣ Coinbase Ventures identifies “AI Agents” as a top theme for 2026, specifically targeting wallets for bots to build the “everything exchange” infrastructure.
1️⃣8️⃣ WEEX debuts “AI Wars: Alpha Awakens,” a global crypto AI trading hackathon with $880K prizes, pitting developer Agents against live markets.
1️⃣9️⃣ Injective rolls out iBuild, the first no-code AI platform for Web3 devs, letting anyone deploy agentic blockchain apps with plug-and-play liquidity.

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