Insurers are in the predictability business. Artificial intelligence is an unpredictable technology. For CFOs and CISOs and their cyber insurance partners, that uncomfortable juxtaposition is becoming harder to ignore as enterprises move from generative AI that produces content toward agentic AI systems that can make...
State banking regulators are giving financial institutions a clearer view of how examiners may assess artificial intelligence, including generative AI systems that remain outside federal model-risk guidance. The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) released an Artificial Intelligence Supervisory Framework Tuesday (Sept. 16) for state-chartered banks and state-licensed nonbank...
Watch more: Digital Shift With Viggo Stenseth of SolvaPay The payments industry has devoted much effort to making sure a bot can’t pass for a customer. Agentic commerce brings a new complication, as some bots are supposed to buy things. SolvaPay, a Stockholm-based FinTech, is...
Cloudflare has started blocking artificial intelligence agents by default on pages that carry ads, putting the tools consumers use to compare products in direct conflict with the sites those tools need to read. The new preset for ad-supported domains allows search crawlers, refuses AI training...
Amazon said artificial intelligence labs should ensure models are safe and fully tested before releasing them but did not call for the industry to slow down, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 17). Reuters asked Amazon for the company’s views after several other large AI labs called...
Robust adoption of China’s artificial intelligence models has yet to yield corresponding revenues, according to a report published Thursday (Sept. 17) by research firm Rhodium Group. All of China’s AI models put together generate roughly a tenth of the revenue reported by the two leading...
The people who build frontier artificial intelligence say it is getting away from them. The people who study it, deploy it and defend against it mostly agree. They just don’t think a slower frontier is the fix. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sept. 12 called...
For St. Luke’s Hospital, the case for agentic artificial intelligence started with a simple operational challenge: hundreds of thousands of patient interactions required thousands of hours of human labor every month. The solution put AI agents in the middle of those interactions, handling routine work...
AI startup Plaud is reportedly planning to file for an initial public offering (IPO) in 2028. CEO Nathan Xu told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Thursday (Sept. 17) that the company will be ready for a U.S. public listing once its yearly revenue surpasses $1 billion. Plaud, incorporated in 2022,...