December 19, 2016
Pepper The Robot Is Going To Work – At SoftBank
Pepper, a rather adorable humanoid robot, is being put to work by his bosses at SoftBank. The Japanese internet group — founded by Masayoshi Son — has already sold about 10,000 of the robots,...
December 16, 2016
What Alt-Lending Slump?
Venture capital levels are a telling sign of the health of an industry. This year, headlines have been awash with concerns and skepticism of the alternative lending space, and that’s...
December 15, 2016
Alibaba Tracker: The Partner Games
Partners! Partners everywhere! Chinese online retail juggernaut Alibaba continues to partner, invest and grow across the globe, building a greater international footprint to balance out losses from a slowing domestic...
December 15, 2016
Zo, New Chatbot, Learned From Tay’s Mistakes
Out with Tay, and in with Zo. This week, Microsoft has unveiled its newest chatbot that is available on the website Zo.ai and through the Kik Messenger app. The latter...
December 15, 2016
AI Innovator Conversica Raises $34 Million In Series B
Silicon Valley adjacent AI innovator Conversica recently announced it had raised $34 million in a Series B venture capital funding round led by Providence Strategic Growth Capital Partners, along with Toba Capital, Wellington...
December 14, 2016
Fighting Fraud — One Microsegment At A Time
Firewalls are out; hyperawareness of where data is flowing across networks and endpoints is in. The brand new Unisys Stealth(aware) platform takes a page from the CIA’s playbook, zeroing in...
December 09, 2016
Data Enablers: OfferCraft, Gaming The System For Both Customer &...
The U.S. gaming industry is worth roughly $51 billion, as more than 155 million Americans play some kind of game regularly, many of them through a console. But who doesn’t...
December 09, 2016
Starbucks Sizzles, Sears Fizzles And Pixel Shows Sizzle Potential
Starbucks had a big week with expansion plans and bots, while Sears saw its bottom line losses grow by 65 percent (!) year over year. And Google's Pixel looks like...
December 09, 2016
Xero’s Faith Lands In Artificial Intelligence
SME accounting platform Xero has big hopes for artificial intelligence. A new report by IT-Online featured Xero South Africa Head of Accounting Colin Timmis, who mused on the topic of AI and...
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