Alipay Adds Biometric Payment Authentication to Smartglasses
Ant International’s Alipay+ has added iris authentication features to its smartglasses-embedded payment solution. The addition to GlassPay is the result of partnerships…
Year: 2025
AI Needs Spatial Intelligence for Next Leap, Experts Say
Fei-Fei Li, known as the “godmother of AI,” argues that the current era of artificial intelligence (AI), dominated by large…
Maverick Bets on Humans and Machines to Share the Rails
Merchants, independent software vendors (ISVs), independent sales organizations (ISOs) and financial institutions (FIs) all play vital roles in the payment ecosystem. Those…
Visa Bets on Stablecoins and AI to Transform Global Commerce for Creators
Traditional cross-border payment systems weren’t built for today’s global workforce. Millions of creators, freelancers and on-demand workers now expect to…
Beyond Models and Compute: Big Tech’s AI Moves
Models, compute and infrastructure dominate AI headlines, but the deeper transformation is unfolding quietly behind them. This week’s tech roundup surfaces the incremental systems work,…
2026 Dubai AI Festival to Surge in Scale, Cements Dubai’s Position as a Global AI Hub
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 11 November 2025: The Dubai AI Festival is set to make a monumental return in…
CFOs and Treasurers Turn to AI to Tame Cash Volatility
Working capital, pulsing through receivables, payables and inventory, has always been the bloodstream of enterprise health. For generations, CFOs managed…
How Payments Automation Helps CFOs Keep Up With Their Own Data
Organizations now sit atop a mountain of data that would’ve been unimaginable even a decade ago. Every customer interaction, workflow,…
Agentic AI Is Reframing the Enterprise Buy-vs-Build Calculus
For decades, enterprise technology strategies have hinged on a deceptively simple question: should we build it, buy it, or partner…
Fireworks, Metropolis and Hippocratic AI Lead Funding Rounds
Artificial intelligence (AI) startups raised billions in new funding this week, with investors allocating capital to companies embedding intelligence into…
Airlines Turn to AI to Manage Disruptions
Flight delays tied to the U.S. government shutdown have renewed attention on how artificial intelligence (AI) could help airlines and…
Wikipedia Urges AI Companies to Stop Website Scraping
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia, issued a call to artificial intelligence (AI) developers and companies to stop scraping information…
Scribe Secures $75 Million in Funding by Showing Where AI, Automation Make Money
Scribe, a San Francisco–based AI startup, has secured $75 million in a Series C funding round, boosting its valuation to…
Multimodal AI Takes Shape for Next-Generation Cancer Research
For decades, oncologists have worked with fragmented information. Imaging tests, biopsy results and clinical records often sit in separate databases,…
Robinhood Aims to Let ‘Normal People’ Invest in AI Firms
Online broker Robinhood wants to let everyday investors put funds into private AI companies. In an interview with the Financial Times (FT) published Monday…
Strong Showings From Affirm and FIS Can’t Stop CE 100 Slide
The CE 100 Index slipped 3.5%, in a week governed by earnings reports. Only the Banking segment and the Be Well…
Multimodal AI Takes Shape for Next-Generation Cancer Research
For decades, oncologists have worked with fragmented information. Imaging tests, biopsy results and clinical records often sit in separate databases,…
AI Agents Take Over the SEO Playbook
The Prompt Economy™ was generous this week. Instead of the recent deluge of instructions and advice for developers, we saw some more practical…
Gopuff CEO: Why We Moved First to Support SNAP Families
The uncertainty surrounding the shutdown has left millions of Americans unsure how they’ll restock their pantries. Food insecurity spikes when…
OpenAI Continues to Push for Government Help in AI Growth
OpenAI’s CEO wants the U.S. to expand eligibility for a tech-focused tax credit. In a post on the social media platform X, Sam…