Year: 2025

Meta AI Chief’s Startup Seeks $3 Billion Valuation Before Launch
Meta AI Chief’s Startup Seeks $3 Billion Valuation Before Launch
December 18, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s chief AI scientist is reportedly in early talks to raise $585 million for his new startup. That’s according to a report Thursday (Dec. 18) by...

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Instacart AI Pricing Tool Faces FTC Investigation
Instacart AI Pricing Tool Faces FTC Investigation
December 18, 2025  |  Legal & Regulation

Federal regulators are reportedly seeking information about Instacart’s artificial intelligence (AI) pricing tool. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sent the grocery delivery platform a...

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Working Capital Efficiency Reflects Local Market, Industry Realities
Working Capital Efficiency Reflects Local Market, Industry Realities
December 18, 2025  |  Payment Methods

Geography is becoming as important as strategy in how well companies manage working capital. Different regions are improving efficiency in different ways and seeing different...

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AI-Powered Scams Force Banks Into Real-Time Fraud Defense
AI-Powered Scams Force Banks Into Real-Time Fraud Defense
December 18, 2025  |  Cybersecurity

Watch more: The Digital Shift: Block’s Brian Boates  Fraud has a new face every day. Even a highly informed customer can fall victim if an...

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What Manufacturing, Healthcare and Tech CFOs Have in Common
What Manufacturing, Healthcare and Tech CFOs Have in Common
December 18, 2025  |  Real-Time Payments

When one thinks of fast payments, manufacturing isn’t the first sector to come to mind. It’s the same for simple payments and healthcare; or not...

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48% of Goods Producers Turn to AI to Lift Output
48% of Goods Producers Turn to AI to Lift Output
December 18, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is changing jobs faster than companies can reorganize them, and a new set of data shows that the impact is far more uneven...

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Agentic Commerce Tests Whether Payments Can Stay Invisible
Agentic Commerce Tests Whether Payments Can Stay Invisible
December 18, 2025  |  Retail

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: Paysafe’s Roy Aston In payments, the most meaningful breakthroughs can often be invisible ones. The consumer taps, clicks or...

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Payments Infrastructure Now Decides Which Insurers Win
Payments Infrastructure Now Decides Which Insurers Win
December 18, 2025  |  Insurance

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: One Inc’s Elizabeth Hoemeke Payments are maturing into a utility layer for the global economy. The unsung heroes of...

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Citi Pulls Blockchain Into the Banking Core
Citi Pulls Blockchain Into the Banking Core
December 18, 2025  |  Blockchain

Watch more: Need to Know: Citi Services’ Biswarup Chatterjee Blockchain was created to challenge the assumptions embedded in decades-old financial infrastructure.  “The technology itself is...

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