Sapphire Ventures has committed an investment of more than $1 billion to cultivate the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered enterprise technology. This investment marks a deepening of Sapphire’s dedication to AI technology and building on the success of their past investments in and scaling of...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced charges against investment firm Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith and its parent company BAC North America Holding Co. The charges, stemming from 2009 to 2019, are due to hundreds of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) not being filed, the SEC said...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning consumers to be wary of scammers pretending to be staff members. The FTC issued a press release and blog post on Tuesday (July 11) to alert consumers. The blog post said that scammers have been using the names of real FTC employees to gain...
American Express Global Business Travel has begun eliminating its umbrella partnership-C corporate (UP-C) structure. With the series of transactions it has undertaken to do so, all of the company’s stockholders now hold the same class of common stock: Class A common stock, the B2B travel platform...
After seven years of no increase in list prices, Salesforce will be increasing the average list price globally by 9% in August. Salesforce is raising the cost of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Industry and Tableau, the company said in a Tuesday (July 11) press release. “Salesforce’s last...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) as we know it began in earnest in 2017. That’s when a paper from Google’s DeepMind group titled “Attention Is All You Need” introduced the foundational architecture of transformer neural networks and socialized the revolutionary concept of multi-head attention, effectively slingshotting the capabilities of AI models...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered Bank of America to pay more than $250 million in penalties and restitution to customers. The move comes in response to the bank’s “systematically double-dipping” on fees imposed on customers with insufficient funds, failure to pay reward bonuses explicitly promised to credit card...
Checkout.com says it is using artificial intelligence to onboard customers in under two minutes. The payments solutions provider on Tuesday (July 11) announced the launch of Identity Verification, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered video verification tool. “Identity fraud is evolving, with deep fakes and deceptive documents growing in sophistication,”...
The direct-to-consumer (D2C) playbook really had a moment. It even had staying power through the pandemic as it provided brands with a way to reach consumers directly, bypassing traditional distribution channels and establishing a closer connection with their audience. D2C strategies enabled companies to control...
