Pinterest has built a new multimodal artificial intelligence infrastructure that will support the next generation of visual and conversational experiences across the company’s platform, the company said in a Monday (Sept. 14) press release. The new infrastructure, which was built with Nvidia, will support visual...
Meta’s still-unreleased smart glasses are reportedly the subject of a class action lawsuit. A group of parents and their children in California and Illinois filed the proposed class action suit, which relates to Meta’s leaked “NameTag” feature, WIRED reported Monday (Sept. 14). According to the report, the suit...
Apple is making design changes to its retail stores, Bloomberg reported Sunday (Sept. 13). The changes are an acceleration of a retail strategy the iPhone maker has adopted in the last few years, focusing more on upgrades than opening new locations, the report said. Now,...
TD Bank has announced a five-year, $108 billion (150 billion Canadian dollars) commitment to Canada’s “investment supercycle.” The project is designed to prompt new lending, underwriting and other financial activities while promoting investment and critical sectors, the Toronto-based TD announced Monday Sept. 14. “Canada is entering a defining...
Fiserv aims to tap several growth opportunities by bringing together the capabilities of its Financial Solutions (FS) and Merchant Solutions (MS) segments, which have operated separately, and operating as one company, Fiserv CEO Takis Georgakopoulos said Thursday (Sept. 10). Speaking at the Goldman Sachs 2026...
Walmart+ is expanding its Gas Savings benefit with a new partnership with Citgo. The expansion of the company’s membership program adds more than 4,000 new gas stations where Walmart+ members can save 10 cents per gallon on gas, the retail colossus said in a Monday (Sept....
Anthropic has reportedly signed a $13.7 billion deal with Rum Group, a social media/AI infrastructure company. The six-year deal with Rum — which owns conservative-leaning video platform Rumble, and is linked to President Donald Trump’s administration — was reported Monday (Sept. 14) by The Information, which cited a source...
Anthropic, Google and OpenAI may agree that powerful artificial intelligence models need common safety standards. Getting to that commonality will mean they must also set standards governing who writes the tests, who administers them, and what a model must do to fail. Payments knows that...
When an autonomous AI agent accesses a password-protected website, who actually does the accessing? According to the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the person who directed the agent to access the site is the one responsible, not the company that developed the agent and...