China UnionPay launched APOP framework for AI agent payments, completing 5 production transactions. The framework enables secure, compliant AI-driven payments across platforms with 19 partner institutions.
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, a family of open-source AI models under Apache 2.0 license, featuring four variants for edge and server use, though benchmarks show it trails Chinese competitors like DeepSeek.
Z.AI released GLM-5V-Turbo, a multimodal AI model converting designs to code, scoring 94.8 on Design2Code benchmark, priced at $1.20 per million input tokens.
JPMorgan: Crypto Market Structure Act likely to pass mid-year
JPMorgan predicts the Crypto Market Structure Act will likely pass by mid-2026, potentially transforming the crypto market and attracting institutional investors.