i2c Says Complacency, Not Fraud, Is the Real Threat
The fraud landscape in payments is evolving faster than many financial institutions can adapt. For Matthew Pearce, vice president of Fraud…
OpenAI Expands eCommerce Plans With PayPal Partnership
PayPal has struck a partnership with OpenAI to embed its digital wallet into ChatGPT. The arrangement will see PayPal adopt the Agentic Commerce Protocol…
World AI Show Malaysia 2025: Igniting Southeast Asia’s Intelligence Revolution
Kuala Lumpur Positions Itself as Southeast Asia’s Next AI Powerhouse Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — October 2025 — The World AI…
Pinterest experiments with new AI-powered personalized boards
Pinterest announced on Monday new AI-powered upgrades to its boards to make them more personalized for users. These features include an AI-driven…
Bottomline Bringing AI Agent to Cash Management Hub
Business payments/cash management company Bottomline is rolling out an artificial intelligence (AI) agent. The agent, set to roll out early next year,…
Anthropic Debuts Updates to Claude for Financial Services
AI startup Anthropic has introduced an expansion of its Claude for Financial Services platform. This update includes an Excel add-in and new…
Qualcomm Enters AI Chip Market as Rival to Nvidia and AMD
Qualcomm announced Monday (Oct. 27) a new line of processors designed to power artificial intelligence inside data centers, signaling a…
AI Funding Surge Highlights Demand for Sustainable Compute and Specialized Agents
Investors continued to pour capital into artificial intelligence startups this week, funding companies that build the infrastructure supporting the creation…
Mastercard and PayPal Make Trust the Core of Agentic Commerce
Mastercard and PayPal are deepening their partnership to bring agentic AI transactions into the mainstream. Under the agreement, Mastercard’s Agent Pay platform will…
Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C
Mercor, which connects AI labs with domain experts for training their foundational AI models, has raised $350 million at a…
The Prompt Economy Has Arrived. Now Comes the Hard Part
One of the most compelling updates this week came from a Harvard Business Review article “Designing a Successful Agentic AI System.” Its…
Bank of America Finds AI Has Limited Impact on US Employment
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling American economic growth, though its effect on employment is limited. That’s according to a recent report from…
OpenAI Due to Receive Another $22 Billion From SoftBank
SoftBank has reportedly taken another step toward completing its massive $30 billion investment in OpenAI. The Japanese conglomerate’s board has greenlit a…
AI Experts Predict Human-Level Intelligence Could Arrive by 2047
This month, researchers from AI Impacts and the universities of Oxford and Bonn released what has become the largest survey to date…
AI Makes Inroads in Legal Industry as Funding Tops $2.4 Billion
Artificial intelligence is making its deepest inroads yet into the legal profession. It is turning pilot-scale experimentation into production-level automation.…
OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool
OpenAI is working on a new tool that would generate music based on text and audio prompts, according to a report…
OpenAI-Backed Valthos Raises $30 Million to Combat AI-Enabled Biological Threats
Valthos said Friday (Oct. 24) that it has raised $30 million to build “next-generation biodefense” to combat the threat of biological…
AI Demand Is Fueling the Rise of Neoclouds
As demand for artificial intelligence (AI) training large models rises, traditional providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are facing…
OpenAI Acquires Former Apple Shortcuts Team to Expand Desktop Offering
OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Inc., an AI startup founded by former Apple engineers who helped build the iPhone’s Shortcuts…
JOOR CFO: Virtual Cards and AI Help Retailers Bridge Cash Flow Gaps
Retailers and suppliers are finding that the key to unlocking millions in savings lies in how they manage working capital. According…