Morning edition — Saturday 14 November 2026

OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Wallet on Friday afternoon, a way for its dots agents to complete purchases for a user. It was built with American Express, Mastercard and Visa and starts rolling out to ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US aged 18 and over with eligible US-issued cards.

Users add a card once. Before each purchase they review the items, the total and the card, then approve it with a security check such as Face ID or a fingerprint. The payment network then issues a payment token in place of the real card number, so neither the agent nor the shop sees the card details, and card rewards and dispute protections still apply, OpenAI says.

OpenAI says it is the first wallet that lets agents pay without access to users' actual card details, which is a vendor claim. It also published a Commerce Partner Playbook telling businesses how to let ChatGPT agents through their firewalls, using signed Web Bot Auth requests, and how to reduce declined agent payments. Later, users should be able to pre-approve purchases within limits such as spending caps or categories, the company says.

TechCrunch notes the limited launch lets OpenAI test the feature before a wider rollout, and that some large retailers, Amazon among them, block AI agents from their sites.

LangChain, which makes tools for building and running AI agents, announced on Friday a $300 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation, TechCrunch reports. CapitalG led the round, with GIC, DFJ Growth, IVP and Sapphire Ventures taking part.

The valuation is more than double the $1.25 billion of its $125 million round about a year ago. The company pitches its LangSmith platform as a way to build and manage agents without being locked into one model or cloud, and claims 7,000 LangSmith customers, including Nvidia, Toyota and Salesforce.

Google added Google Wallet to Gemini's connected apps on Friday, rolling out to all Gemini app users in the US on the web, Android and iOS. Users can also link bank and credit-card accounts to Wallet through Plaid for deeper insights.

Tagging @Google Wallet lets Gemini chart spending, find recurring subscriptions and their price rises, or suggest a holiday budget from last year's transactions. Google says the connection is opt-in and read-only: Gemini cannot move, manage or invest money.

OpenAI has disbanded its stand-alone robotics team and reassigned its researchers, Fortune reported on Friday; the company confirmed the reorganisation. Robotics research now sits in the main research team under chief research officer Mark Chen, while applied robotics and hardware move to the Applied organisation under president Greg Brockman.

A spokesperson said robotics remains a core part of OpenAI's long-term vision and presented the move as a commitment rather than a retreat. The company told Fortune it now wants its general-purpose models to control robots directly. Fortune did not say how many people were affected.

It is the second time OpenAI has broken up a robotics group: it wound down its first team in 2020 and rebuilt one in 2024. Fortune found OpenAI's booth at this week's CoRL robotics conference in Austin empty.

The Federal Reserve's twice-yearly Financial Stability Report, published on Friday, says AI was the top-cited risk in its survey of market contacts. In September and October the New York Fed heard from 23 contacts at broker-dealers, banks, investment funds and advisory firms; 87% cited AI, up from 50% in the spring survey. A correction in risk assets came next, at 52%.

Respondents named three worries: high equity valuations that could fall if earnings disappoint, cyberattacks either by state actors or caused by frontier AI models themselves, and complex forms of AI-related financing.

A separate box on the data-centre build-out says debt issued to finance advanced computing rose to more than $680 billion by October 2026, about five times the $130 billion of 2023, and now makes up about 31% of non-financial investment-grade corporate issuance.

The FAA ordered a nationwide ground stop for all US airports on Friday afternoon after communication problems hit multiple air route traffic control centres, its statement said. The FAA Command Center cancelled the stop at 01:19 UTC on Saturday, 20:19 Eastern time on Friday, its advisory shows. It was the second nationwide ground stop since the 11 September attacks, GeekWire notes.

The timing drew attention to SMART, an AI-supported tool from Air Space Intelligence that recommends routes and schedules from about 200 data streams. The FAA said on Tuesday it was expanding it to the airspace of all 22 en route centres. Asked about a link, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said "We're looking at that" and that nothing could be ruled out, while describing the problem as a telecommunications outage of unknown cause.

Air Space Intelligence said the ground stop was not caused by SMART or its integration with the FAA, AL.com and other outlets report. SMART does not control aircraft: FAA specialists review its recommendations and local facilities decide whether to use them. Mullin also said he saw no connection to the Microsoft 365 outage that began the day before.

Global Printing Inc., which trades as Mythos and sells donor-communication software to universities and nonprofits, sued Anthropic in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday, case 1:26-cv-03756, the court docket shows.

The complaint says the firm has used the MYTHOS name since 2015 and holds a 2020 federal registration for software-as-a-service. It says the Patent and Trademark Office refused Anthropic's two applications for CLAUDE MYTHOS in non-final office actions on 20 October, citing that registration, and that customers have already been confused.

It seeks damages, Anthropic's profits from Mythos, trebled damages for wilful infringement and an injunction against Anthropic's use of the name. The complaint notes that the plaintiff itself uses Claude in its product.