Visa has linked its payment infrastructure to ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to recommend retail products and execute financial transactions. The deployment removes human intervention from the final stages of the retail funnel. Autonomous agents will now process user prompts, evaluate merchant catalogues, and complete the checkout process using Visa’s payment rails at any supporting merchant. The post Visa ChatGPT integration enables AI agent retail purchasing appeared first on AI News.

If your remit is to help your organisation add AI agents to accelerate its processes, you have to start at the foundation – and that means making your data available for AI consumption. Agentic AI scales on data strength, as Niels Zeilemaker, global CTO at Xebia, explains. “If you don’t think about that, you can The post Xebia: Why AI agents fail without the right data foundation appeared first on AI News.

“We’ve all had that moment where you search for something you know is there, but it just won’t show up.” Apple’s Stacey Ford, vice president of OS Program Management, was talking about Spotlight at WWDC 2026, but she could have been describing the company’s AI ambitions.  On Monday at Apple Park, the thing that wouldn’t The post Siri AI arrives with Google inside, and much of the world is locked out appeared first on AI News.

McDonald’s is testing a new AI system that can take drive-thru orders and support restaurant operations. The system, called ArchIQ and nicknamed “Archy,” was introduced during the company’s Worldwide convention, according to Restaurant Business. It is being tested at five McDonald’s locations in the United States, though the company has not named the restaurants involved. The post McDonald’s tests Google-backed AI drive-thru ordering system appeared first on AI News.

Signing PDFs has become an important task for businesses and individuals alike. Whether you’re handling contracts, legal agreements, or forms, the ability to quickly and securely sign PDFs online is essential. Fortunately, with the rise of online PDF signers, signing PDFs has never been easier. Common challenges in signing PDFs Signing PDFs might seem straightforward, The post How to sign PDFs easily online with a PDF signer appeared first on AI News.

Autonomous AI agents are altering the speed at which software is shipped. Unfortunately, they are also shrinking the time it takes for a mistake to become a catastrophe, creating a dangerous blind spot in many security strategies. The threat no longer comes just from external ransomware or malicious insiders. It comes from authorized, internal tools. The post Autonomous AI Data Loss in DevOps: Building Efficient Defenses appeared first on AI News.

Aviva has uncovered a record £230 million in insurance fraud claims and is using AI tools to counter the growing problem. The battleground has changed, and the culprits are also coming armed with a new generation of tools. We’re now in an environment where AI is being used not just to defend against fraud, but The post Aviva deploys AI to stop £230M in sophisticated insurance fraud appeared first on AI News.

Weis Markets is adding Instacart’s AI-powered shopping carts, Caper Carts, to select stores in Pennsylvania, bringing digital coupons, loyalty features, and repeat-purchase recommendations into the grocery aisle. The Pennsylvania-based grocery chain is working with Instacart to deploy the smart carts, which include cameras, certified scales, location systems, and a touchscreen. According to Instacart, Caper Carts The post Weis Markets adds Instacart AI-powered shopping carts to stores appeared first on AI News.

Shell will use agents from C3 AI to shift from basic anomaly detection towards fully-automated predictive maintenance. The global energy giant is building on their current use of the C3 AI Reliability Suite, which already keeps tabs on more than 30,000 crucial pieces of equipment across upstream and downstream operations. Shell now intends to lean The post How C3 AI agents will automate predictive maintenance for Shell appeared first on AI News.

Meta has launched Business Agent to automate conversational commerce workflows directly inside its messaging applications. The software allows global retail brands to execute transactions and field support tickets without human intervention. Deploying this architecture places agentic AI directly at the core of social commerce. Meta integrated these workflows natively into Instagram, Messenger, and soon WhatsApp. The post Meta Business Agent drives AI-powered conversational commerce appeared first on AI News.