Verizon said it is spending $70 million to teach artificial intelligence (AI) skills to American workers and businesses. AI Skills for America, announced by the telecom company on Wednesday (Sept. 23), is designed for job seekers, small businesses, early career professionals and displaced workers. “Strengthening...
A consumer who tells an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to book a vacation for under $3,000 has approved a budget, not every choice the agent makes to stay inside it. The agent can pick the airline, accept a nonrefundable fare, add travel insurance and split...
The founders of open banking platform Tink have launched a new compliance platform. Freda, which came out of stealth Wednesday (Sept. 23), has its roots in what its founders saw at their former company, CEO Daniel Kjellén said in a LinkedIn post announcing the launch. “At Tink, we’d watched compliance become...
New York is giving the largest artificial intelligence (AI) model developers a compliance calendar. Starting in November, the state will direct them to register under its RAISE Act. In January, requirements for public safety protocols, regular reporting and notice of critical incidents take effect. For...
Ema raised $77 million in a Series B funding round to expand its AI Employee platform that delivers autonomous artificial intelligence agents to perform work in human resources (HR), information technology (IT) and finance, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 23) press release. This...
Amazon’s next artificial intelligence push for merchants is less about giving sellers better answers than reducing how often they need to ask questions at all. Mary Beth Westmoreland, vice president, Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, at Amazon, told PYMNTS in an exclusive conversation Wednesday (Sept. 23)...
Anthropic has reportedly launched a partnership with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical search engine provider OpenEvidence. This collaboration is designed to bring AI-driven clinical decisioning help to doctors in places that can’t access the technology, the companies told Reuters Tuesday (Sept. 22). “Access to medical knowledge...
In the mid-1990s, Procter & Gamble made a stunning claim. They said they’d invented a miracle in a bottle. A chemist working there found a compound that completely got rid of really bad smells instead of covering them up with a fancy perfume-y spray. Stinky...
OpenAI is talking with multiple independent assessors to help grow the number of such companies that have expertise in frontier artificial intelligence safety and can provide effective third-party assessments, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 22) blog post. OpenAI said this while outlining its...