Lawmakers in the United States are pushing for new rules to govern artificial intelligence, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 10). The effort follows an incident in which OpenAI’s agents hacked the company Hugging Face, as well as comments from Joshua Coxon, an Anthropic researcher worried about...
The artificial intelligence investment boom poses potential risks to global financial stability, Bank for International Settlements General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos said Thursday (Sept. 10). In a speech delivered at the Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai, India, de Cos said this boom has...
By 2030, more than 6 billion people could be using digital wallets. That’s according to Mastercard, which on Thursday (Sept. 10) introduced a set of solutions designed to help wallet providers offer a better user experience. Mastercard Wallet Pay is “designed to foster interoperability and innovation” for digital...
U.S. representatives are introducing the Stop Rogue AI Act in the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday (Sept. 10), giving federal policymakers a way to begin defining the security controls organizations may need as autonomous artificial intelligence agents move into production. Introduced by Reps. Josh Gottheimer,...
Ride-hailing/food-delivery company Grab is reportedly in discussions to acquire Singapore-based buy-now-pay-later provider Atome Financial. That deal could value Atome at more than $2 billion, Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Sept. 10), citing sources familiar with the talks. As Bloomberg notes, Grab has been working to fuel...
Listen to the Fired Up podcast with Karen Webster. Artificial intelligence can compress work that once took days into minutes, but companies still must decide what their people should do with the time they get back. That management challenge framed the inaugural episode of “Fired...
An early version of Apple’s digital assistant Siri AI does not have access to some common apps, including Gmail and WhatApp, The New York Times reported Tuesday (Sept. 8). Without access, Siri AI cannot perform tasks such as finding messages within those apps, according to...
Anthropic said in a Wednesday blog post that it discovered a fourth incident in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to third-party systems. The incident occurred in January but was not discovered during Anthropic’s earlier scan of transcripts that uncovered three other incidents that the...
Salesforce has been in talks to acquire Listen Labs, an artificial intelligence-powered customer research platform, for about $2 billion, Business Insider reported Wednesday (Sept. 9), citing unnamed sources. The talks are ongoing, and they may not result in a deal, according to the report. Neither...