Mirendil, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in talks to raise new funding at a $5 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Kleiner Perkins is in talks to lead the round, which could bring in up to...
Google says it wants to help local governments have “civic conversations” with AI’s assistance. The tech giant announced on its blog Tuesday (Sept. 22) that it was supporting the Jigsaw Partner Program, run by a tech incubator housed within Google. Google said its support will...
In a bank’s back office, an employee pulls up a customer’s account on a decades-old terminal, reads the balance and types it into a newer web form to finish the file. The two systems don’t talk to each other. The person in the chair is...
Moov has announced Moov Money, a real-time, person-to-person (P2P) payment solution. Created in collaboration with Visa and Mastercard, Moov Money lets consumers send and receive funds through their digital banking provider with just an eligible debit card and a trusted mobile phone connection, the company...
PayPal partnered with Meta on agentic shopping, PayPal said in a Tuesday (Sept. 22) post on social platform X. “We’re excited to partner with [Meta] to enable PayPal customers to seamlessly shop and check out using their [Muse] personal AI agents across PayPal merchants worldwide,”...
With their customers worn down by pricing shifts, software/cloud companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Figma are reportedly offering artificial intelligence (AI) discounts. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Sept. 22) by The Information, which said these markdowns are happening as customers are growing more selective...
Heidi raised $340 million in new funding to expand the capabilities of its AI Care Partner for clinicians and to support its growth, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 22) press release. The new funding includes a $100 million Series C funding round led...
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz launched an alternative school for rising tech talent, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Sept. 22). The idea is to keep budding entrepreneurs from dropping out of school to launch a company and instead attend the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, according...
A group of six banks is calling for artificial intelligence shopping transactions to carry an auditable record of what a customer asked an agent to do, what authority the customer granted, and what happened before and after payment. The proposal addresses the issue of whether...