Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Tungsten Automation’s Andrew Ng The problem with fragmented payments infrastructure is usually described as technical debt. For today’s chief financial officers, it is becoming one of financial duplication. Separate payment systems tend to accumulate separate controls, approval processes,...
Artificial intelligence has reached nearly every part of the large companies surveyed by PYMNTS Intelligence, but its place in the daily workflow varies from one business function to another. The September report “AI at Work: Why Deeper Enterprise Use Produces Stronger Returns” found that the...
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a court Monday (Sept. 28) to stop OpenAI from developing new models until independent safety guardrails are in place. Uthmeier filed a motion asking a court for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, the Office...
Shopify now enables browser agents to check out on the websites of all its eligible merchants, Gil Greenberg, staff product manager, checkout at Shopify, wrote in a Monday (Sept. 28) article on LinkedIn. Shopify already enabled agents to search products, browse collections and add items...
Modulate has raised $25 million to continue developing its “audio-native” AI models. The new funding, announced Monday (Sept. 28), comes as the company is seeing its artificial intelligence (AI) models increasingly used in areas like fraud prevention, voice AI agent supervision, trust and safety, and customer experience....
Elon Musk wants xAI’s Grok chatbot to serve as users’ financial assistant. “Grok Bot now connects to your finances,” the artificial intelligence company wrote Saturday (Sept. 26) on X, another Musk company. “Link your bank, card, and investment accounts with the new Finance integration, then ask Bot to help manage...
Senior scientists from Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft are calling on policymakers to embed auditors in frontier artificial intelligence companies and set “concrete safety requirements” for continued development of the technology. Anthropic Co-Founder Jack Clark, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jaku Pachocki and Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric...
Instinct, the builder of a personal artificial intelligence agent for everyday life, quadrupled its valuation over the past month, lifting it to $10 billion. Instinct was valued at $10 billion as it raised $1 billion in Series C funding, the company said in a Monday...
Nvidia is moving the artificial intelligence kill switch deeper into the machinery, giving businesses a way to stop autonomous agents even when the software directing them fails to keep them within bounds. The company’s Open Agent Safety Platform, announced in a Monday (Sept. 28) press...