CFOs have typically solved payments problems by buying more payments technology. A new rail for faster settlement, another provider for cross-border payments. Fraud software, treasury platforms, AP automation, virtual card capabilities, and countless APIs connecting everything. Of course, it usually then took more software to...
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...
Business payments firm Bottomline introduced a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to improve payment messaging, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. Global Pay Connect is aimed at helping “financial institutions extend their payments infrastructure beyond traditional connectivity through API-enabled services and third-party data integration,”...
Revolut’s co-founder and CEO says the FinTech is considering a dual London and New York stock market listing. In an interview Thursday (Sept. 17) with French newspaper Les Echos, Nik Storonsky said the company wanted to list in the U.S. as the market there provides more liquidity and a...
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...
Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate how Amazon and Walmart handle “Made in America” goods and claims on their website and apps, Baldwin said in a Thursday (Sept. 17) press release. In a letter...
Amazon needs more than faster warehouses to close Walmart’s delivery advantage. It may need to build and manufacture its own version of a neighborhood store network. Amazon knows this, and the digital retail giant is already acting on it strategically. Project Mercury, Amazon’s plan, reported...
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...