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Sesame Attracts $250 Million in Funding to Advance Voice-Driven AI Wearables
October 22, 2025

Sesame, a conversational AI startup founded by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe and technologist Ankit Kumar, has raised $250 million in Series B funding to advance its vision for voice-driven AI wearables. According to TechCrunch, the funding will support the company’s beta rollout and development of...

Artificial Intelligence
YouTube Expands AI Safety Features With New Likeness Detection System
October 22, 2025

YouTube has launched its likeness detection system, a new tool that lets creators identify and request removal of AI-generated videos using their face or voice without consent. According to TechCrunch, the feature is being rolled out first to select members of the YouTube Partner Program...

Investments
PortX Plans to Expand AI-Powered Banking Integration Platform With New Funding
October 22, 2025

PortX, an AI-powered data integration platform for banks and credit unions, has closed a strategic growth round backed by Allied Solutions and the American Bankers Association (ABA), according to a Monday (Oct. 20) news release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Banking
Truist Pilots Embedded Banking Solution for Several Leading ERPs
October 22, 2025

Truist is piloting an embedded banking solution that enables treasury workflows like reconciliation and reporting, real-time payments and approvals within supported enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic and Google Negotiating Multibillion-Dollar Computing Partnership
October 22, 2025

Anthropic is in early discussions with Google on a cloud-computing agreement valued in the high tens of billions of dollars, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 21) Bloomberg report. The deal would give the artificial intelligence company access to Google’s tensor processing units, custom chips designed...

Artificial Intelligence
CurbWaste Brings AI Tech to the $1T Trash Business
October 22, 2025

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B2B Payments
Boost Says 99.96% of Transactions It Processes Meet Visa’s CEDP Requirements
October 22, 2025

Boost Payment Solutions said Wednesday (Oct. 22) that it is fully ready to support clients through Visa’s new Commercial Enhanced Data Program (CEDP) and that 99.96% of transactions processed through its platform already meet the CEDP requirements. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Artificial Intelligence
Why 30 Million US Consumers No Longer Search.
October 22, 2025

For nearly three decades, the internet rewarded people who knew how to find information fast. The pros learned to turn questions into a few notable keywords and cherry-pick through pages of results until they found what they needed. Search became a reflex. Searchers gathered data,...

Artificial Intelligence
TreviPay Redefines Receivables as a Relationship Business
October 22, 2025

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