Amazon spent decades trying to make itself the place where merchants sell. Its next act may be considerably more ambitious: becoming the place where merchants run their businesses, regardless of where the sale happens. Two exclusive announcements from Amazon shared with PYMNTS this week point...
Ebanx is preparing to expand its payments operations into Pakistan while rolling out an in-house Apple Pay token-decryption system across Latin America and the Caribbean, as the payments company seeks to build infrastructure around local payment methods and emerging digital commerce markets. The company announced...
Meta wants its artificial intelligence agent, Muse, with people all day. At Meta Connect Wednesday (Sept. 23) and in a blog post the same day, the company announced that it’s putting the AI agent with its glasses and shopping partners. Then Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
A researcher uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to process data, draft a grant application or assemble a literature review. If the work is later challenged, investigators may need to reconstruct what the tool produced, what the researcher checked and whether the underlying records still exist....
Artificial intelligence is opening new routes between banks’ legacy cores and the applications built on top of them, expanding what banks can build around systems they already have. The change reaches beyond chatbots and employee copilots. AI agents retrieve information from banking systems, invoke software...
Treasury departments have traditionally been centered on helping the treasurer, who is typically a human, make better decisions about corporate cash. The next generation of treasury technology, however, is proving capable of making those same decisions on its own. Artificial intelligence treasury agents today can...
One of the researchers behind AlphaGo is seeking tens of millions of dollars from a small initial group of backers for a new startup called Metis Reasoning, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Sept. 24). AlphaGo is the Google DeepMind program that beat a world champion at the...
Home improvement retailer Lowe’s is testing drone delivery in Charlotte, N.C., saying in a Thursday (Sept. 24) press release that this fulfillment method gets select items to directly to do-it-yourself and professional customers in as little as 20 minutes. This offering is powered by Wing...
Procurement platform Axya raised 17 million Canadian dollars (about $12 million) in new funding, according to a Thursday (Sept. 24) press release provided to PYMNTS. The Montreal-based company’s Series A financing will help enhance its platform and artificial intelligence capabilities as it enters new markets...