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Visa and OpenAI collaborate on AI-powered commerce experiences
Visa and OpenAI have announced a collaboration focused on enabling AI agents to assist consumers with shopping and payments. According to the announcement, the partnership will combine OpenAI's AI capabilities with Visa's payment infrastructure, including tokenization, authentication, and fraud prevention technologies. The companies describe a future where consumers can authorize AI agents to browse products, make recommendations, and complete purchases within user-defined parameters. Visa also highlighted capabilities such as agent identity verification, transaction controls, and payment authorization. The initiative is intended to support both consumer and business use cases, including procurement, invoicing, and payment workflows.
 
Anthropic warns of recursive AI development as AI increasingly contributes to its own codebase
Anthropic released a report highlighting a shift in AI development where Claude is increasingly involved in building future AI systems. The company reports that over 80% of code merged into its production codebase is now attributed to Claude, reflecting a move from human-led engineering to AI-assisted and partially AI-executed workflows. Engineering output has also risen significantly, with daily merged code reaching multiples of previous years. While Claude can write, edit, and execute longer-horizon tasks, Anthropic notes humans still lead in research judgment, including problem selection and validation. The report introduces recursive self-improvement, where AI may help design future AI systems, and suggests the need for verifiable coordination mechanisms among frontier AI developers to enable collective slowing or pausing if required.
 
NetSuite ERP trends: AI, cloud architecture, and the shift toward intelligent business systems
NetSuite highlights that ERP systems are evolving from traditional financial management tools into intelligent platforms that combine data, automation, and AI-driven decision-making. Key trends include the increasing integration of artificial intelligence across ERP workflows, enabling predictive forecasting, automated reconciliation, and intelligent exception handling. Cloud-first and composable architectures are also becoming standard, allowing organizations to integrate best-of-breed tools while reducing system complexity and technical debt. Real-time analytics and predictive insights are increasingly central, helping businesses make faster and more informed decisions. In addition, industry-specific ERP configurations are gaining momentum, with tailored workflows improving adoption and operational efficiency across sectors such as manufacturing, retail, and financial services. Two-tier ERP strategies are also rising, with enterprises using systems like NetSuite for subsidiaries while maintaining core ERP systems at headquarters. 
 
SAP launches Joule in SAP for Me to simplify support and self-service access
SAP has announced the launch of Joule in SAP for Me, introducing an AI-powered entry point to its customer portal. The new experience enables users to access support, insights, alerts, metrics, and self-service capabilities through conversational interactions rather than navigating menus and search functions. Joule can help users find relevant information, execute tasks, and receive guided support through a unified interface. SAP also introduced AI-powered agentic case resolution capabilities that can assist with case analysis, duplicate detection, routing recommendations, and draft responses. The rollout began in May 2026 and is being provided to customers at no additional cost.
 
AI Defense Matrix introduced to help organizations secure AI systems
Cybersecurity experts Lenny Zeltser and Sounil Yu have introduced the AI Defense Matrix, a framework designed to help organizations identify security gaps, assign ownership, and select controls for protecting AI systems. The framework maps eight AI-specific asset classes, including AI models, training data, AI-generated code, runtime AI data, and AI agent identities, against the six functions of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. Positioned as a “Security for AI” companion to the Cyber Defense Matrix, the framework provides a structured approach for evaluating AI security programs and aligning security responsibilities across teams. It is intended for both security practitioners assessing organizational defenses and vendors mapping product capabilities to AI security requirements.
 
Research reveals ChatGPT vulnerability may be exploited for phishing and information leaks 
Permiso Security has disclosed research named ChatGPhish, highlighting how attackers may exploit ChatGPT’s handling of third-party web content when generating page summaries. When ChatGPT summarizes a webpage, content originating from the source page may be rendered within the generated response. This could allow attacker-controlled links, externally hosted images, or QR codes to appear in the output, potentially directing users to phishing sites or enabling the collection of visitor-related information. QR codes may also shift the attack to mobile devices, where users may be outside the protection of desktop-based URL security controls. Permiso Security stated that the issue stems from how AI systems process and render untrusted third-party content, emphasizing the importance of maintaining clear trust boundaries between source material and AI-generated responses.
 
Webinar: International e-invoicing roadmap – From global compliance requirements to finance and system transformation strategies

The global tax landscape is rapidly shifting towards Continuous Transaction Controls (CTC) and structured e-invoicing models, fundamentally changing how businesses exchange data with tax authorities. Compliance is no longer solely the responsibility of the tax department; it has evolved into a holistic corporate challenge involving financial workflows, master data governance, ERP configuration, system interfaces, cross-border reporting, and operational models.

This webinar will explore the latest trends in international e-invoicing and CTC development. It will also analyse how organisations can translate the regulatory requirements of various countries and regions into an actionable, scalable, and forward-looking financial and system architecture blueprint.

Why should you attend?

Master global compliance trends: Gain a clear breakdown of e-invoicing and CTC regulatory timelines across key European and Asia-Pacific markets.

Assess your readiness: Learn how to audit your current ERP, master data, and system interfaces to avoid a fragmented, country-by-country patchwork setup.

Build a unified architecture: Discover integration strategies that allow a single, core ERP to handle evolving international reporting rules.

Navigate clearance variations: Learn to manage diverse regional invoice formats (e.g., XML/UBL) and direct government gateways (e.g., PEPPOL, KSeF).

Drive finance automation: Leverage e-invoicing mandates to accelerate AR/AP automation, data standardisation, and real-time process controls.

Gain RSM advisory insights: Benefit from practical, proven methods for converting complex regulatory burdens into scalable, compliant ERP solutions.

Event details

Date: 9 July 2026 (Thursday)

Time: 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (GMT+8)

Language: Mandarin

 

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