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Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly sign drug co-development deal worth up to $2.75 billion, with $115 million in upfront payments (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 29, 2026

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How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase and others are building a stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 8, 2026

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Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in the second half of the year, with plans to onboard a provider to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 24, 2026

Ian Allison / CoinDesk: Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in the second half of the year, with…

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Payments using facial recognition are increasing in South Korea as technology improves; South Korean fintech app Toss has expanded its ‘Facepay’ service to over 1 million users (Nami Matsuura/Nikkei Asia)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 21, 2026

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Home prices are becoming more affordable, but down payments are holding back buyers

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 30, 2025

Mortgage rates are lower, housing prices are falling, and there is more supply of products for sale in the market.…

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Marshall Islands unveils national UBI program that offers payments of around $200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stable coin or traditional currency (Prianka Srinivasan/The Guardian)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 17, 2025

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PayPal and Bilt, which offer rewards points for paying rent, say Bilt customers will be able to use Venmo to make rent and mortgage payments starting in 2026 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 27, 2025

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: PayPal and Bilt, which offer rewards points for paying rent, say Bilt customers will be able…

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NPCI, which runs India’s UPI, is partnering with OpenAI and digital payments company Razorpay in a pilot to allow consumers to buy and pay directly through ChatGPT (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 11, 2025

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Austin-based Routefusion, whose API for financial institutions allows them to integrate accounts, payments, currency conversion and compliance, has raised a $26.7 million Series A round (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 9, 2025

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Austin-based Routefusion, whose API for financial institutions allows them to integrate accounts, payments, currency…

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Google launches the payment protocol of agents, or AP2, designed to safely facilitate payments led by agents on all platforms, with the support of more than 60 companies (Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 16, 2025

Sabrina Ortiz / Zdnet:: Google launches the agents’ payment protocol, or AP2, designed to safely facilitate payments led by the…

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The Anthropic myth adds to concerns about increasing workload for open source maintainers, as many have already faced a ‘crazy’ number of bug reports (Chris Stokel-Walker/Bloomberg)

Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will allow AI agents to access Salesforce platform features through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Global DRAM supply is expected to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory will reach around 40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% currently (Nikkei Asia)

Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4 billion through 34 deals through April 15, compared to $5.9 billion raised through 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a key supplier of Nvidia’s ADAS, announces EXT lidar, calling it the first in the industry to integrate spatial and color sensing (Reuters)

Browsing: payments

Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly sign drug co-development deal worth up to $2.75 billion, with $115 million in upfront payments (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase and others are building a stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in the second half of the year, with plans to onboard a provider to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

Payments using facial recognition are increasing in South Korea as technology improves; South Korean fintech app Toss has expanded its ‘Facepay’ service to over 1 million users (Nami Matsuura/Nikkei Asia)

Home prices are becoming more affordable, but down payments are holding back buyers

Marshall Islands unveils national UBI program that offers payments of around $200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stable coin or traditional currency (Prianka Srinivasan/The Guardian)

PayPal and Bilt, which offer rewards points for paying rent, say Bilt customers will be able to use Venmo to make rent and mortgage payments starting in 2026 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

NPCI, which runs India’s UPI, is partnering with OpenAI and digital payments company Razorpay in a pilot to allow consumers to buy and pay directly through ChatGPT (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Austin-based Routefusion, whose API for financial institutions allows them to integrate accounts, payments, currency conversion and compliance, has raised a $26.7 million Series A round (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Google launches the payment protocol of agents, or AP2, designed to safely facilitate payments led by agents on all platforms, with the support of more than 60 companies (Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET)