Market jitters around artificial intelligence will not slow enterprise demand for the technology, although it may lead corporations to sharpen their focus on outcomes, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday (Nov. 2). Chief information officers and tech insiders interviewed by the WSJ Leadership Institute said...
Neighborhood commerce and rewards company Bilt is acquiring sports and entertainment loyalty platform Lava, according to a Monday (Nov. 2) news release. The $300 million deal brings Lava’s technology and partnerships with 56 professional sports franchises into Bilt’s “rapidly expanding neighborhood commerce ecosystem,” per the...
The consumerization of corporate finance got a shot in the arm over the past weekend, and it’s an injection that could impact how corporate finance teams handle the very concept of a “weekend” itself. On Friday (Oct. 30), Uber, HSBC, Franklin Templeton, Tradeweb and Fireblocks...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is scrutinizing artificial intelligence companies’ disclosures amid growing concern over infrastructure spending and circular financing. The increased scrutiny comes as the agency is placing renewed emphasis on accounting enforcement. The SEC wants investors to understand material risks associated with AI...
A traveler asks an AI assistant for a quiet hotel near the water with a spa and a late checkout. The assistant compares dozens of properties in seconds and never opens a hotel website. The hotel it recommends is the one whose information it can...
The rise of artificial intelligence agents that shop for their users could present a challenge to Amazon’s status as a first stop for shopping and a place for advertisers to reach consumers, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday (Nov. 1). If AI agents like Meta‘s...
Nine out of 10 frontier models tested by researchers at Cornell Tech and Yale University bypassed user-set policies to lift spending caps when they had access to one-time passwords sent to the user’s email, the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3) said in a post...
Dataline raised $10.6 million in a funding round to grow its decentralized data network for artificial intelligence agents, the company said in a Saturday (Oct. 31) press release. The network provides a two-sided marketplace for agent-payable data in which anyone can publish a feed, and...
Google‘s learning platform focused on artificial intelligence skills, Google Skills, has launched new Gemini courses for financial services and legal teams, Google Cloud said in a Friday (Oct. 30) blog post. These new, separate products are industry specific and include bundles of videos for learning,...