Invesco brings its model portfolios into Anthropic’s Claude for advisers
Invesco brings its model portfolios into Anthropic’s Claude for advisers

Invesco is working with Anthropic to let financial advisers use its model portfolios and practice tools inside Claude for Financial Advisors. CAIS, Conquest and FINNY added their own connectors the same day, a day after Anthropic filed for its IPO. Inv…

Revolut will let app users invest in private tech companies from 2027
Revolut will let app users invest in private tech companies from 2027

Revolut is building Revolut Ventures with Carne Group, a platform in its app for eligible users to invest in private tech companies, due in 2027. It builds on private market funds Revolut opened from €1 in July. Revolut is also planning its own listing…

Freedom Holding is developing a $2bn sovereign AI hub in Kazakhstan
Freedom Holding is developing a $2bn sovereign AI hub in Kazakhstan

Freedom Holding Corp. is developing the $2bn hub under an agreement signed in November 2025 with Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development, the Nasdaq-listed group said in a statement on Monday. The site is planned with 1…

American Express cuts 5% of staff and won’t let AI agents ‘run rogue’
American Express cuts 5% of staff and won’t let AI agents ‘run rogue’

American Express is cutting about 5% of its global workforce and taking a $336M restructuring charge. Chief executive Stephen Squeri told analysts about the cuts on Friday, CNBC’s Hugh Son reported. The company had almost 77,000 employees at the end of…

Instacart is exploring a sale, and Uber has already walked away
Instacart is exploring a sale, and Uber has already walked away

Instacart is exploring a sale and has held at least preliminary talks with DoorDash and Uber. Valida Pau, Jessica E. Lessin and Cory Weinberg reported this for The Information on 23 October, citing people familiar with the matter. The grocery delivery …

Australian court orders Apple to open the iPhone to rival app stores
Australian court orders Apple to open the iPhone to rival app stores

Fortnite is back on the App Store in Australia, Epic Games said on Friday. That came a day after the Federal Court of Australia ordered Apple to let the game return. G’day, Australia. 🇦🇺 We’re back on the App Store. Drop in! https://t.co/7AUJ81BUSy For…

Meta had to ask Stripe to raise limits as Muse shoppers poured in
Meta had to ask Stripe to raise limits as Muse shoppers poured in

Purchase volumes on Muse came in “above what any of us expected”, Mark Zuckerberg said. Meta had to ask Stripe to raise its credit limits. He spoke on Meta’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. More than 10 million people in the US and Canada hav…

Microsoft nominates Stripe’s Collison to its board and trims Nadella’s pay
Microsoft nominates Stripe’s Collison to its board and trims Nadella’s pay

Microsoft has nominated Stripe co-founder and president John Collison to its board, the company disclosed on Wednesday in its annual proxy statement. The same filing asks shareholders to approve a $90.6m pay package for chief executive Satya Nadella, d…

Walmart will let AI agents shop for you, with their own spending limits
Walmart will let AI agents shop for you, with their own spending limits

Walmart will let AI agents shop for customers on Walmart.com and at Sam’s Club, each with its own profile, spending limit and purchase history. The retailer announced Agent Profiles, a gateway built for agents and a set of terms they must follow on Wed…

eBay to cut 9% of its staff, its second round of layoffs this year
eBay to cut 9% of its staff, its second round of layoffs this year

eBay will cut about 9% of its workforce, around 1,000 jobs, according to an internal memo from CEO Jamie Iannone first reported by Reuters. It follows 800 job cuts in February. eBay says it wants to focus on its fastest-growing areas. It reports result…