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CrowdStrike to Acquire 2 Firms to Secure Enterprise AI Agents
November 03, 2026

CrowdStrike plans to make two acquisitions that will add artificial intelligence (AI) observability and automated AI security testing to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, the company said Tuesday (Nov. 3) in a pair of blog posts. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform is designed to secure agentic enterprises,...

Artificial Intelligence
Worldwide Express Unfreezes $10 Million With AWS AI Agents
November 03, 2026

Worldwide Express works with more than 130,000 customers and more than 75 less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers, which fill a trailer with freight from several customers, AWS said in a case study published Oct. 30. Each carrier invoice is checked against the purchase order and the delivery...

Artificial Intelligence
Irregular Says Human Error Allowed OpenAI and Anthropic AI Model Escapes
November 03, 2026

The hacking incidents in which artificial intelligence models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google escaped a testing environment overseen by security company Irregular were caused by human error, Irregular Co-Founder and CEO Dan Lahav said Tuesday (Nov. 3), according to a Bloomberg report. Speaking at...

Artificial Intelligence
Apollo’s Record AI Lending Begins to Rival Banking Giants
November 03, 2026

Apollo Global’s lending reportedly hit a record $114 billion during the quarter thanks to its AI funding efforts. That figure marked a 50% increase over the private capital group’s second quarter lending, the Financial Times (FT) reported Tuesday (Nov. 3), as Apollo lent to artificial intelligence (AI) giants...

Artificial Intelligence
Walmart’s Updated AI Agent Turns Pictures Into Shopping Lists
November 03, 2026

Walmart’s artificial intelligence (AI) shopping agent, Sparky, can now use images uploaded by the user to answer questions or create shopping lists, Walmart said in a Friday (Oct. 30) press release. These are two of several new capabilities Walmart has added to Sparky ahead of the holiday shopping season....

Artificial Intelligence
China Prepares to Impose New Safety Standards for AI Firms
November 03, 2026

China is reportedly set to establish wide-ranging standards for artificial intelligence (AI) safety. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Nov. 3) from Bloomberg News, which said these measures would be among the most thorough guidelines to protect against a loss of control as AI becomes more powerful....

Artificial Intelligence
Goldman Benches Its Vibe Coders While BNY Lets Everyone Build
November 03, 2026

Goldman Sachs has restricted Anthropic’s Claude Code and Microsoft’s GitHub coding tools largely to engineers and quantitative specialists, PYMNTS reported Monday (Nov. 2), citing Bloomberg. The change reverses a rollout that let employees outside technology build applications for their own work. The restrictions follow an...

B2B Payments
Truist Debuts Enhancements For Merchant Services Solutions
November 03, 2026

Truist has announced several new enhancements to its merchant services offerings. These enhancements cover how “businesses select solutions, onboard, access insights, manage payments and serve customers across multiple channels,” the bank said in a news release Tuesday (Nov. 3). “The investment reflects clients’ increasing need...

B2B Payments
Coupa Card Reaches $50 Million Spend Since November 2025 Launch
November 03, 2026

Coupa’s Invoice-to-Pay solutions saw strong growth in the first half of the company’s fiscal year 2027, the company said in a Tuesday (Nov. 3) press release. The company’s Coupa Pay solution concluded the first half with a 58% year-over-year increase in transaction growth. This solution...