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...
For software engineers and managers, the way to determine good artificial intelligence (AI)-powered engineering practices is through long-term outcomes, Terk Terkowitz, vice president and distinguished engineer, Worldwide Amazon Stores, wrote in a memo shared with software engineers across Amazon and posted online Tuesday (Oct. 27). Terkowitz contrasted that...
Voice commerce has faced the same obstacles for a decade, including turning spoken requests into accurate orders, verifying customer identity and completing payments without delays. In 2016, PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster wrote about the potential of voice-enabled payments through Amazon’s Alexa. What Alexa could not...
Oracle and OpenAI have partnered to develop a user experience that will bring together Oracle applications, enterprise data and cloud services, and OpenAI frontier models, Oracle said in a Tuesday (Oct. 27) press release. This Oracle AI Workspace will make Oracle’s capabilities agent-ready and accessible...
Identity/risk intelligence company Socure has introduced a method for determining whether artificial intelligence (AI) agents are trustworthy. Agent Intelligence, announced Tuesday (Oct. 27), detects AI agents, scores whether they should be trusted, and links each agent to a verified person or business. “The launch comes...
The U.K. Home Office faces a possible investigation into its use of artificial intelligence (AI) in asylum processing, following research that raises questions about accuracy, transparency and safeguards governing technology used to support consequential government decisions. The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has...