July 06, 2017
Previse Lands $2.58M For AI-Powered Invoice Financing Platform
U.K. startup Previse, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered invoice financing platform, has announced new seed funding. Recent reports said Previse raised $2.58 million in funding from Hambro Perks, which led the round, as...
July 05, 2017
Alibaba Is Taking On Alexa, Google Home, DingDong and Little...
In its latest effort to keep up with its American big brother Amazon, China’s eCommerce giant Alibaba has announced the debut of its own smart home speaker. With this addition,...
July 05, 2017
Soon Say Hello To Samsung’s ‘Bixby’ Speaker
To Bixby or not to Bixby, that is the question – and long after Amazon and Google released their voice-activated assistants and synchronized smart speakers, after Apple announced its upcoming...
July 05, 2017
How Tech Can Help Uncover The Story Behind Financial Data
For a chief financial officer (CFO), having technology — from ERP systems to cloud accounting and cash forecasting tools — has become paramount when deploying a successful growth strategy. But...
July 05, 2017
True Or False: Apple Loses $104B In Value
A glitch in trading data resulted in huge movements in some of the largest companies that trade on the Nasdaq including Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. According to a report in...
July 04, 2017
Hackers Find New Avenues for Attacks Via Developing Nations
Hackers are on the lookout for new ways to attack, and now it looks like developing nations may be a favored conduit. As noted by The New York Times, some...
July 04, 2017
Snap, Crackle, Pop! Fourth Of July Retail Trends
As the fireworks pop, the barbecue goes onto the grill and sweet tea is poured, the retail industry is heading into one of its largest times of the year. In...
June 30, 2017
Letgo: The Smarter Used Goods Marketplace
For longtime users, there is something almost refreshingly low-tech and unfussy about Craigslist. While the rest of the internet is redesigning itself with slicker interfaces and pretty images, Craigslist remains...
June 30, 2017
Ford Creates Robotics, AI Research Unit
Ford Motor, the car manufacturer, has created a new robotics and AI research team that will be housed under Ford’s Research and Advanced Engineering department. According to a news report in...
Generative AI’s use in the telecommunications industry is increasing, with 87% of telecom executives seeing its potential to enhance customer relations and experience, but 68% of telecoms also admit they are insufficiently addressing the risks associated with the technology. The latest edition of the “Generative AI Tracker®,” a collaboration with AI-ID, examines why three-quarters of telecoms see a need to do more to combat AI fraudsters, underscoring the tension between innovation and robust security.
Although authorized party fraud accounts for only 37% of FIs’ fraud losses in dollars, these types of attacks are the most likely to impact customer satisfaction and retention — something FIs cannot overlook. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 29-page report, “Leveraging AI and ML to Thwart Scammers,” a collaboration with Hawk, contains 8 charts of proprietary data examining the role of ML and AI to help keep fraudsters from getting the upper hand