Shopify now enables browser agents to check out on the websites of all its eligible merchants, Gil Greenberg, staff product manager, checkout at Shopify, wrote in a Monday (Sept. 28) article on LinkedIn. Shopify already enabled agents to search products, browse collections and add items...
Modulate has raised $25 million to continue developing its “audio-native” AI models. The new funding, announced Monday (Sept. 28), comes as the company is seeing its artificial intelligence (AI) models increasingly used in areas like fraud prevention, voice AI agent supervision, trust and safety, and customer experience....
Elon Musk wants xAI’s Grok chatbot to serve as users’ financial assistant. “Grok Bot now connects to your finances,” the artificial intelligence company wrote Saturday (Sept. 26) on X, another Musk company. “Link your bank, card, and investment accounts with the new Finance integration, then ask Bot to help manage...
Senior scientists from Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft are calling on policymakers to embed auditors in frontier artificial intelligence companies and set “concrete safety requirements” for continued development of the technology. Anthropic Co-Founder Jack Clark, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jaku Pachocki and Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric...
Instinct, the builder of a personal artificial intelligence agent for everyday life, quadrupled its valuation over the past month, lifting it to $10 billion. Instinct was valued at $10 billion as it raised $1 billion in Series C funding, the company said in a Monday...
Nvidia is moving the artificial intelligence kill switch deeper into the machinery, giving businesses a way to stop autonomous agents even when the software directing them fails to keep them within bounds. The company’s Open Agent Safety Platform, announced in a Monday (Sept. 28) press...
Meta is following the launch of its Muse model with a new business concentrated on offering artificial intelligence tools to enterprise clients. “Meta Enterprise Platform will use our strengths that few other companies have: advanced models, leading agents, large-scale infrastructure, and years of working closely with...
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson is drawing a line for businesses using artificial intelligence agents: Giving software the power to act does not make the software responsible when something goes wrong. At a Reuters event Friday (Sept. 25), Ferguson pushed back on descriptions of AI agents as...
HSBC has unveiled Smart Checking, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool focused on enhancing trade finance operations. The new offering is designed to “transform and standardize” how trade finance documentation is processed, traced and reviewed at the bank, HSBC announced Monday (Sept. 28). “Documentary trade at...