Mastercard unveiled Mastercard Max, an AI assistant that tells cardholders which perks their card offers, so they can use benefits they may be missing.
Mastercard has launched an AI assistant that answers questions about the perks on your card and nudges you to use them. It is called Mastercard Max. The company announced it on Wednesday, Oct. 21. The first bank to offer it is C6 Bank, a digital bank in Brazil.
You will not download Mastercard Max from Mastercard. Banks add it to their own channels, such as a mobile banking app or an AI assistant they already run. Mastercard handles the AI work behind the scenes, so banks do not have to build their own. It is open to banks worldwide.
The assistant draws on benefit information from both Mastercard and your bank. Mastercard gave examples of what it can do:
The material does not say which other banks will offer Max, or when. It also does not say whether banks in the United States are signed up, or whether it costs anything. Your bank has to choose to add it, so you may not see it soon.
The idea targets a real gap. A PYMNTS Intelligence report from January 2025 found that 55% of cardholders who say rewards are easy to redeem actively use most or all of their available benefits.
Mastercard Max shows up only if your bank adds it, so for now check your card's benefits yourself and watch your banking app for an assistant.
A modified Gboard called GboardWu Privacy keeps the features of Google's keyboard but stops it from sending usage data back to Google.
Read more: A modded Google keyboard keeps its features but blocks trackingA new Alibaba-led test of real coding requests found the best AI agent fully finished just 26.4 percent of tasks, so human review still matters.
Read more: AI coding helpers fully finish only about 1 in 4 real tasksEA has re-released 25 classic PC games at a discount until November 19, and Bethesda has finally given The Elder Scrolls VI a subtitle: Sentinel.
Read more: EA brings 25 classic PC games back, and Elder Scrolls VI gets a name
