UnionPay Launches AI Agent Payment Framework

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 Launches Gemma 4 Open LLMs

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 Launches GLM-5V-Turbo Multimodal AI

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.