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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet to let its agents pay online
OpenAI’s agents can now pay at an online store’s existing checkout with a card token from Visa, Mastercard or American Express. But the company says bot defenses and fraud checks may turn those buyers away
Jade raises £450,000 for university agent software
GC Angels led the round for the Manchester company, which Kamila and Dhaval Malavia founded in 2025. Its platform handles the contracts, training and commission of the overseas agents who recruit international students
Microsoft 365 outage disrupts email at Openreach
Mailboxes on Exchange Online began failing on 12 November after Microsoft servers dropped out of service. Openreach says its broadband and phone network is unaffected
Tribal to leave AIM and wind up after Main Capital sale
Tribal Group has asked shareholders to wind the company up after selling its businesses to Main Capital Partners for £231.2m. But its directors called its prospects strong, and said the stock market might not value it as highly
Haloid staked a decade of earnings on the Xerox 914 in 1959
Haloid Xerox showed its 914 office copier on 16 September 1959, having spent more to develop it than it earned in the whole of the 1950s. But nobody at the company predicted how many copies offices would make on it
Ingenta refocuses on AI as largest customer cuts contracts
The Oxford publishing software group has given the founder of an AI startup it part-owns a remit to apply AI across the business. But it has not sized the savings meant to largely offset about £2m of lost revenue
Xero sets out how it will charge customers for AI
Xero will charge for AI inside its plans, as add-ons and, later, by use. But it has not said what usage will cost
Employment Hero’s UK revenue rises 84% in a year
Employment Hero says ARR from its more than 30,000 UK customers rose 84% in a year. But it gives no UK revenue figure or date for its employment-law agent
Griffin raises $20m to add cards and stablecoin services
Octagon Partners led the Series B, which values Griffin at more than $100m (£75m) and pays for debit card issuing and stablecoin services for the companies that build on it
Sage picks Adyen and Mastercard to put business accounts in its software
The service is planned first for Sage 50, Sage 100 and Sage Active customers in France, and combines a business account, debit card and payments with books that update as money moves
Blackbird promotes product chief Sumit Rai to chief executive
Rai, who has led the design of the browser video editor elevate.io since 2022, succeeds Ian McDonough after nine years. McDonough stays on as an employee and director of the AIM-listed company
Crediflow AI raises £1.5m to cut the paperwork behind commercial loans
The Manchester startup’s software prepares the analysis behind a loan decision. The money backs a plan to cover origination, underwriting and monitoring as well