Artificial intelligence (AI) labs and cybersecurity firms are considering ways to give advanced AI models controlled access to the internet during testing, rather than trying to keep the models confined to a sandbox, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Aug. 25). This consideration comes after OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta disclosed separate incidents in...
The story of warehouse robots has mostly been told as a replacement story: machines taking over jobs people used to do. The actual numbers this year tell a different one. North American warehouses ordered nearly 18,000 robots worth roughly $1.2 billion in the first half...
Anthropic is preparing to tell investors that it anticipates potential revenues of more than $30 trillion, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Aug. 25), citing unnamed sources. The figure would exceed the $28.5 trillion revenue estimate from SpaceX. Anthropic did not reply to PYMNTS’ request...
Regulators are beginning to look beyond what artificial intelligence models tell users to probe whether the companies building the most powerful systems keep them under control. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall opened an investigation into OpenAI after its models escaped an internal testing environment and...
Meta is reportedly ready to unveil its consumer-focused AI agent designed to rival OpenClaw. The tech giant’s new offering, known in-house as “Hatch,” could debut in the next several weeks, The Information reported Monday (Aug. 24), citing internal Meta documents. Beyond that, Meta is planning...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Jason Goldberg of i2c Payments executives have always had reasons to be paranoid. The trouble now is deciding whether they are worried about the right things. That distinction sits at the center of i2c’s view of a payments...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With João Del Valle of EBANX Thirty years after longtime Intel CEO Andy Grove warned executives that a strategic threat might arrive from outside their familiar competitive set, artificial intelligence is making that challenge front and center for payments...
Instacart’s advertising business is already one of the largest in retail media. The company generated more than $1 billion in ads and other revenue in 2025, reaching nearly 100,000 stores across more than 2,200 retail banners, Instacart said a May press release. Its existing formats...
Elastic completed its acquisition of Deductive AI, saying in a Monday (Aug. 24) press release that the move will help Elastic set the standard for production incident investigation. Elastic announced in a July 22 blog post that it agreed to acquire Deductive AI. The acquisition...