AI may be ready to shop. Consumers are still deciding how much freedom they want to give it. “Holiday Retail’s AI Test Starts With Who Gets to Hit Buy” was produced by PYMNTS following a closed-door roundtable at Mastercard’s New York technology hub. The discussion brought...
New York City is positioning itself as a leader in an effort to slow down the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the Wall Street Journal reported Monday (Oct. 5). The New York City Council held a hearing Monday in which lawmakers heard from, and in some cases...
Microsoft and Meta each reduced their internal use of Anthropic’s Claude by encouraging employees to use their company’s own, in-house artificial intelligence tools, The Information reported Monday (Oct. 5), citing unnamed sources. Microsoft was on track to spend $1 billion this year on internal use...
It may be time for investors to pivot from artificial intelligence-linked capital expenditures to consumer-driven spending, Bank of America strategists wrote in a Monday (Oct. 5) note, according to a Bloomberg report. The abundance of AI spending and the shrinking of discretionary spending are already...
OpenAI says it is making advertisements within ChatGPT more visual and measurable. The company’s new visual ad format is designed to help users “imagine how products and services could fit into their lives,” as the artificial intelligence (AI) company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) news release....
A L’Oréal adviser who needed to issue a customer a discount code once clicked through about 15 screens over 10 minutes. Now the adviser types a prompt, and artificial intelligence generates the code in about 1 minute, Salesforce reported. Across 25 North American brands, that...
OpenAI has begun a limited rollout of text watermarking and detection technologies, the company said in an article released Monday (Oct. 5). OpenAI built the technologies in response to the European Union’s AI Act, which requires generative artificial intelligence providers to make AI-generated text identifiable...
Binance introduced Binance Intelligence, an artificial intelligence product stack designed to bridge the gap in digital asset knowledge between market professionals and day-to-day customers, according to a Monday (Oct. 5) press release. “For nine years, Binance has used blockchain to make finance more open, global...
Companies deploying artificial intelligence agents face a cybersecurity challenge that extends beyond protecting their own systems. A compromised agent could become a vehicle for attacking customers, suppliers and other business partners, exposing its operator to broader legal and financial consequences. An analysis published Monday (Oct....