Author: Art Ryan

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman used his personal blog this week to outline a sweeping vision for artificial intelligence. In a post titled “Abundant Intelligence,” he called for AI to become as universal as electricity and said delivering it at scale will require industrial-level infrastructure backed by massive investment. “Our vision is simple: we want to create a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week,” Altman wrote. “The execution of this will be extremely difficult; it will take us years to get to this milestone and it will require innovation at every level of the stack,…

Billing and monetization platform OneBill has introduced a tool designed to stop revenue leakage. RevAssure360, announced Wednesday (Sept. 24), is an artificial intelligence (AI) powered “command center” that can help businesses predict, identify and stop revenue leakage in real time, while also getting insights for sustainable growth. “In today’s fast-paced digital economy, unnoticed errors in billing, invoicing, order fulfillment, and renewals often go undetected, silently eroding profits,” the company said in a news release. “In fact, it has been reported that some businesses are losing between 3% and 8% in total revenue, due to lack of robust internal auditing,” the release added, citing PwC data. The…

Payments and credit card service organizations have always been measured by their ability to reduce friction. Contact center average handle time, dispute resolution speed, and fraud detection accuracy are all metrics that shape strategies and incentives. The rise of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) promises a massive improvement across each of these key performance indicators (KPIs). But while speed and efficiency have long dictated the terms of competition in payments, trust and humanity have always sat at its center. “As new technologies emerge, whether it’s ML, AI or gen AI, we’ve always approached them thoughtfully,” Gary Kensey, EVP and Unit CIO…

Is Microsoft’s relationship with its longtime artificial intelligence (AI) partner taking a turn? As CNBC reported Wednesday (Sept. 24), the tech giant has for years served as AI startup OpenAI’s chief cloud partner. Now, however, it has begun using more technology from OpenAI competitor Anthropic. For example, there’s Microsoft’s announcement that it has begun employing an AI model from Anthropic to answer questions in the Microsoft 365 Copilot assistant for commercial customers. The report noted this marks another step toward diversification in Microsoft generative AI efforts, which have largely involved using OpenAI models for AI features in its Windows operating system and Bing search engine. The partnership has seen Microsoft invest upwards…

Payments have never been solely about moving money. Across the context of their utility, payments are fundamentally about trust. Trust that a transaction is legitimate, that a supplier is real, that the identity behind the purchase is authentic. The only problem? Increasingly, that trust is under assault. “As innovation diffuses, the table stakes get higher. And it calls into question how to create a competitive advantage,” PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster observed while hosting a discussion with Jonathan Beckham, chief product and technology officer at Edenred Pay, for the September 2025 What’s Next in Payments series, “From Trend to Table Stakes: Mapping…

Meta is reportedly investing “tens of millions” in its new super PAC dedicated to combating state-level proposals to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies. The American Technology Excellence Project aims to block state-level bills that the company believes are poorly crafted and could hurt the country’s efforts in the AI race with China, Axios reported Tuesday (Sept. 23), citing Meta spokesperson Rachel Holland. There have been 1,100 state-level tech policy proposals introduced this year, according to the report. The super PAC will also support the election of state-level candidates who “embrace AI development, champion the U.S. technology industry, and defend American tech leadership at home and abroad,” Brian…

Android users are now able to edit their photos with AI, Google announced on Tuesday. In Google Photos, users will be able to talk to the AI using natural language to describe how they want to edit their photo via either voice or text, Google says. The feature is designed to make it easier to edit photos without having to understand which editing tools to use or where they can be found in the app. The Gemini-powered feature was initially made available to those with the newly launched Pixel 10 devices in the U.S., introduced in August. To get started, you…

As Google’s project manager for developer tools, Ryan Salva has a front-row seat to the ways AI tools are changing coding. Formerly of Github and Microsoft, he’s now responsible for tools like Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist, nudging developers into the new world of agentic programming. His team released new third-party research on Tuesday showing how developers actually use AI tools – and how much progress is left to make. I sat down with Salva to talk about the report and his personal experience with AI coding tools. This interview was edited for length and clarity. Every year, Google does a survey…

For Julien Emery, the problem has always been personal. He’s the CEO and co-founder of Superpanel, a platform that helps law firms seamlessly onboard new clients. He listed emotional encounters with the law: As a Canadian, he found access to legal help hard and expensive; he also recalls his mother in a car accident, and how the legal payout helped keep his family afloat for years. He found the legal intake — the process of a firm evaluating a new client or request — tedious. “For consumers, it’s a maze of forms, phone calls, and dropped leads that cause most people…

Rocket.new, an Indian startup building an AI-powered app development platform, has raised $15 million in a seed round led by Salesforce Ventures to take on viral vibe-coding rivals like Lovable, Cursor, and Bolt by letting users build full, production-ready apps from natural-language prompts rather than just quick prototypes. Accel and Together Fund joined Salesforce Ventures in the all-equity seed round, which comes only three months after Rocket.new launched its platform in beta in June. Since its debut, the startup has crossed 400,000 users — including over 10,000 paid subscribers — in 180 countries and reached $4.5 million in annual recurring…

In its ongoing mission to unleash the world’s digital potential, Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) today shared highlights from its 2025 Industry Analyst Forum, where analysts engaged with the company’s leadership team around the Forum’s theme – The Trusted Network for AI. Key moments spotlighted the company’s comprehensive blueprint for transformation, financial progress, and a preview of new innovations and programs designed to strengthen Lumen’s position as a digital networking services company for the AI era. “Lumen is determined to lead the transformation of our industry to meet the demands of the AI economy,” said Lumen CEO Kate Johnson. “With ubiquitous reach and a digital-first…

Amazon, Google and Microsoft set out their latest moves on artificial intelligence and infrastructure in the past week, underscoring how the industry’s largest firms are positioning themselves for growth under mounting regulatory and policy scrutiny. The announcements from the Big Tech trio come at a time when AI is advancing at a breakneck speed and governments at all levels are scrambling to put regulations in place. Meanwhile, industry lobbyists warn that too much regulation could stifle innovation. From America’s AI Action Plan to the European Union’s AI Act, governments are putting together various levels of oversight. Also in the United States, a proposed bill before Congress would set up an AI sandbox where companies can test new technologies. Amazon: AI and Satellites at…

Payments and credit card service organizations have always been measured by their ability to reduce friction. Contact center average handle time, dispute resolution speed, and fraud detection accuracy are all metrics that shape strategies and incentives. The rise of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) promises a massive improvement across each of these key performance indicators (KPIs). But while speed and efficiency have long dictated the terms of competition in payments, trust and humanity have always sat at its center. “As new technologies emerge, whether it’s ML, AI or gen AI, we’ve always approached them thoughtfully,” Gary Kensey, EVP and Unit CIO…

Citigroup has launched an upgraded version of its internal artificial intelligence platform, Citi Stylus Workspaces, which now includes agentic AI capabilities intended to help employees complete complex, multi-step tasks more efficiently, according to a Monday (Sept. 22) news release. The new upgrade allows users to compress what would previously take several manual steps across different tools into a single prompt, per the release. The launch is part of a broader push to boost productivity and manage rising costs. The tools now integrate more deeply with Citi’s internal systems, including its global employee directory, project management platforms, and internal data sources, while…

As companies race to implement AI, many are finding that project success hinges directly on the quality of their data. This dependency is causing many ambitious initiatives to stall, never making it beyond the experimental proof-of-concept stage. So, what’s the secret to turning these experiments into real revenue generators? AI News caught up with Martin Frederik, regional leader for the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg at data cloud giant Snowflake, to find out. “There’s no AI strategy without a data strategy,” Frederik says simply. “AI apps, agents, and models are only as effective as the data they’re built on, and without unified,…

It takes a lot of computing power to run an AI product – and as the tech industry races to tap the power of AI models, there’s a parallel race underway to build the infrastructure that will power them. On a recent earnings call, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang estimated that between $3 and $4 trillion will be spent on AI infrastructure by the end of the decade – with much of that money coming from AI companies themselves. Along the way, they’re placing immense strain on power grids, and pushing the industry’s building capacity to its limit. Below, we’ve laid…

Nvidia announced Monday it plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of a deal to build out massive data centers for training and running AI models. The companies say they signed a letter of intent to deploy 10 gigawatts — enough to power millions of homes — worth of Nvidia systems to power OpenAI’s next generation of AI infrastructure. The deal may help OpenAI as it reduces its reliance on Microsoft, its largest investor and supplier of cloud computing resources. In January, Microsoft announced changes to its partnership with OpenAI, allowing the ChatGPT-maker to build additional AI infrastructure with…

Google’s AI assistant, Gemini, is coming to your TV. On Monday, the company announced it’s introducing Gemini for Google TV, allowing TV owners to engage in free-flowing, natural language conversations with the AI. When fully rolled out, this expansion of Gemini to a new platform will bring Google’s AI to over 300 million active Google TV and other Android TV OS-powered devices. In terms of TV-related questions, Google suggests its Gemini AI could be used to help people with different interests settle on something to watch that they would both like, or to catch you up on what you missed in a past season…

The past week was arguably the most active on the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) front of the year. When you have companies as big as Google, Amazon and Zoom vying for the headlines, it can’t help but be a big week for innovation and adoption. But perhaps the most impactful development came from a newly published case study from Moody’s. Because while agentic AI is long on promise, it’s tight on actual successful use cases. So the Moody’s use case was welcome news for Prompt Economy advocates. VentureBeat reports that Moody’s faced a pressing challenge: Its customers often spent 40 hours or more preparing credit memos, a process bogged down by unstructured data and manual…

Alibaba’s big bet on artificial intelligence (AI) could reportedly make it one of the world’s biggest companies. That’s according to a report Saturday (Sept. 20) by CNBC, charting the Chinese tech giant’s shift from eCommerce to AI. In the last three years, Alibaba has taken part in deals worth more than $3.3 billion, including investments in AI model startups Moonshot and MiniMax to robotics startup Limx Dynamics, the report said, citing data from PitchBook. Meanwhile, the company plans to spend $53.42 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure over the next three years. More than $14 billion has been invested in AI infrastructure and research in the past year, Wei Sun, principal analyst at Counterpoint Research, told CNBC. “Alibaba…