OpenAI Launches Faster GPT-5.1, Expands Personalization
OpenAI released GPT-5.1, the latest version of its flagship model, describing it as a step toward faster reasoning, more reliable instruction-following and more personalized…
Musk Dismisses Report of $15 Billion xAI Fundraise
xAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) company founded by Elon Musk, has raised $15 billion. That’s according to a report Thursday (Nov. 13)…
Amazon and Walmart Race to Win Over a Cautious Consumer
Amazon and Walmart have spent decades defining the competitive perimeter of American retail, each shaping consumer behavior at enormous scale.…
FIS Debuts AI-Powered GETPAID and Treasury Risk Manager Solutions
FIS has released two of its key financial software products on Microsoft Marketplace. A press release issued Thursday (Nov. 13) by the Jacksonville, Fla.-based…
How MCP Turns Passive AI Assistants Into Active Enterprise Agents
The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is an open standard introduced by Anthropic in late 2024 to make artificial intelligence (AI) systems more useful in real-world business…
Beauty Industry Gets Its AI Makeover
From foundation matching and real-time consultations to generative marketing and supply chain forecasting, artificial intelligence (AI) is getting integrated into…
Target Turns to AI to Spruce Up Holiday Shopping
Target is introducing new technology features to help customers shop for the holidays. The new features, announced Wednesday (Nov. 12), include gift recommendations…
DATE 2025 to spotlight the region’s most powerful tech voices and ventures
Dubai, UAE – On 26–27 November 2025, Madinat Jumeirah will host DATE — a Digitization, AI & Emerging Technology Summit,…
Amazon Debuts AI-Powered Tools for Business Clients
Amazon is introducing a series of AI-powered solutions to help business clients. These new offerings, announced Wednesday (Nov. 11), include the new Amazon…
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…
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…