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Robinhood has launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain and introduced stock tokens to eligible users in more than 120 countries. The announcement is part of a broader international expansion that also includes new derivatives products in Europe and plans to bring crypto trading to the UK. At an event in London, the trading platform outlined a wider move into decentralised finance as it seeks to expand beyond its established brokerage and crypto operations.

Hostinger has launched an eCommerce product for small sellers designed to support selling across multiple channels from a single dashboard. The new offering, Hostinger Ecommerce, focuses on the operational side of a merchant's business, including products, inventory, orders, payments, shipping and customer data. Sellers can connect those functions to customer-facing channels such as websites, social networks and messaging apps without rebuilding their setup for each one.

Microsoft is investing USD $2.5 billion to launch Microsoft Frontier Company. The new unit will place more than 6,000 industry, AI and engineering specialists inside customer organisations. The business will focus on designing, deploying and refining AI systems tied to measurable commercial results. Microsoft described the move as a step beyond what the sector has commonly called forward deployed engineering, in which technical teams work closely with customers on implementation.

Aily Labs has formed a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services to deploy its AI decision intelligence agents to large enterprises. Under the agreement, Aily will be available through AWS Marketplace, allowing customers to buy the platform through existing AWS accounts and apply spending against committed cloud agreements.

SVV has launched AgenticInvestor, a free open-source platform for venture capital and private market investors that makes the firm's internal AI workflows available to others. The release is an effort by the London-based AI-focused investor to move venture firms beyond limited AI use in research and towards more routine use of AI agents in dealmaking and portfolio work. The platform includes workflows, tasks, skills and agent blueprints drawn from SVV's own investment processes.

Anthropic has launched Claude Science in public beta, a software app for scientific research teams built on the company's existing Claude models. The app is available for macOS and Linux on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans. Team and Enterprise access requires administrator approval. Anthropic is also offering a discounted Claude Team plan for research labs, prioritising academic and non-profit biomedical, basic science and hard science labs. Claude Science is an application, not a new model.

Gartner forecasts that by 2028, 20% of finance organisations will redirect all talent-related investment to advanced digital skills, pointing to a sharper divide in hiring and development across finance teams. Finance leaders are responding to the growing use of artificial intelligence in the function and a shortage of workers with data and AI expertise.

Chargebacks911 has published its 2026 Chargeback Field Report, based on survey data from more than 250 merchants. The report found that 83.4% of enterprise merchants had seen an increase in friendly fraud over the past three years, while 74.4% described it as a moderate or significant concern. Friendly fraud occurs when a cardholder disputes a legitimate transaction.

IoT Analytics has published the Q2 edition of What CEOs Talked About, finding that geopolitical issues gained ground in corporate earnings calls while artificial intelligence remained the most discussed digital topic. Boardroom discussion shifted towards the conflict involving the US and Iran, with executives also talking more often about energy prices, inflation and supply chain disruption.

Gartner estimates that USD $234 billion of enterprise application software spending is at risk from agentic AI, with the exposure reaching about 20% of enterprise application SaaS spending by 2030. The estimate reflects what Gartner calls agentic arbitrage, in which AI agents complete tasks across several systems and reduce the need for people to move between multiple software interfaces.