Paystack Index Launches: Nigeria’s First AI-Powered Payments Agent Is Here

Paystack has just launched Paystack Index, an early-access product that allows AI agents to complete everyday payment transactions on behalf of users in Nigeria. This is not a chatbot feature or a gimmick, it is a fundamental shift in how digital payments could work. Instead of opening an app and tapping through a checkout flow, … Read more

OpenAI Daybreak & GPT-5.5-Cyber

OpenAI has fully launched its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative, releasing the complete version of GPT-5.5-Cyber, an updated Codex Security plugin, the Patch the Planet open-source remediation program, and a global Cyber Partner Program. The model scored 85.6% on CyberGym — the benchmark for AI-driven vulnerability reproduction — versus 81.8% for base GPT-5.5. This is the most … Read more

HSBC Expands AI Banking Partnership With Google Cloud

A new multi-year deal puts Gemini models and agentic AI behind HSBC’s wealth advice, fraud detection, and staff workflows and signals where global banking is headed next.   HSBC has expanded its AI banking partnership with Google Cloud, a multi-year deal aimed at pushing artificial intelligence into more than 200 new use cases across the … Read more