Google is reportedly developing a new travel payments capability for its digital wallet. According to a report Tuesday (Oct. 27) from the website Android Authority, the new Google Wallet capability would let travelers make QR-code-based payments overseas using the Alipay Plus network. The report is...
Cloud and artificial intelligence security platform Upwind has raised $450 million in new funding. The company’s Series C round will allow Upwind to strengthen its product and engineering growth, Co-Founder and CEO Amiram Shachar wrote in a Wednesday (Oct. 28) blog post. “Security is a cloud and AI story now,”...
Before a company’s loan request reaches a room full of bankers, a computer may have already sized it up. Artificial intelligence tools now score borrowers, sort through financial statements and write first drafts of loan approval memos. In many cases, nobody at the bank formally...
Tech companies are reportedly spending more time and resources dealing with bugs uncovered by artificial intelligence (AI). That’s according to a report Wednesday (Oct. 28) by The New York Times, which says technologists are becoming overwhelmed at the volume of flaws. In May, OpenAI began employing its technology...
The most useful thing an executive learns all year may be that a familiar measure of success is pointing in the wrong direction. Faster customer service can mask processes that create unnecessary work. More financial information can leave consumers less confident. More automation can move...
Businesses have spent years investing in systems designed to determine whether a payment is legitimate. Fewer have invested in ensuring that a legitimate payment actually arrives. Just 13% of firms use payment guarantees, despite the PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Payment Guarantee Gap: Why Adoption Lags...
Grace Hopper, the Yale PhD in math, computer pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral, liked to tell audiences that “it’s much easier to apologize than to get permission.” She didn’t invent the idea or the saying, but she made it famous. Silicon Valley has...
Stripe now enables instant B2B transfers through a “stripe pay” plug-in, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 27) post on LinkedIn. “Find companies using their Stripe profile handle and send funds for free,” Stripe said in the post. “Available in the Dashboard and CLI.”...
Anthropic has added more connectors from partners to its Claude for Financial Advisors, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 27) update to an article originally published Sept. 14. The list of connectors in the updated article now includes 22 connectors to tools used by...