Artificial intelligence is opening new routes between banks’ legacy cores and the applications built on top of them, expanding what banks can build around systems they already have. The change reaches beyond chatbots and employee copilots. AI agents retrieve information from banking systems, invoke software...
Treasury departments have traditionally been centered on helping the treasurer, who is typically a human, make better decisions about corporate cash. The next generation of treasury technology, however, is proving capable of making those same decisions on its own. Artificial intelligence treasury agents today can...
One of the researchers behind AlphaGo is seeking tens of millions of dollars from a small initial group of backers for a new startup called Metis Reasoning, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Sept. 24). AlphaGo is the Google DeepMind program that beat a world champion at the...
Home improvement retailer Lowe’s is testing drone delivery in Charlotte, N.C., saying in a Thursday (Sept. 24) press release that this fulfillment method gets select items to directly to do-it-yourself and professional customers in as little as 20 minutes. This offering is powered by Wing...
Procurement platform Axya raised 17 million Canadian dollars (about $12 million) in new funding, according to a Thursday (Sept. 24) press release provided to PYMNTS. The Montreal-based company’s Series A financing will help enhance its platform and artificial intelligence capabilities as it enters new markets...
Maybe that Amazon-Walmart rivalry isn’t so fierce after all. Amazon announced Thursday morning (Sept. 24) that it will let marketplace sellers manage orders and shipment tracking from eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart inside Seller Central, extending its seller dashboard to the other places merchants do...
The shopping basket has always held the answer. Brands just haven’t had a clear way to read it at the moment a customer pays. Smart checkout technology could change that by matching products in the basket with eligible offers and applying the savings automatically. “The...
The CEOs of rival artificial intelligence labs Anthropic and OpenAI agreed Wednesday (Sept. 23) that there is a need for global standards to address potential risks around AI and that both governments and the industry should be involved in decisions about the technology, Bloomberg reported...
Dollar General is expanding its delivery options through a new partnership with Instacart, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 23) press release. The partnership gives customers access to the discount retailer’s food, household goods, health and beauty products and other everyday essentials through Instacart’s app and...