September 09, 2016
Saving eProcurement Complexity For The Back End
When procurement software startup Vroozi announced last month that it secured $4 million in venture capital, the company said it would use that investment to strengthen technological capabilities in sophisticated...
September 08, 2016
Amid Tech Pressures, Meditation And Modernity In China
The tech industry may mean free food, but it’s also marked by long hours, stress, coding errors, hacking — and burnout. In China, those who have flamed out in the rough-and-tumble startup...
September 06, 2016
Meet Revuze, The Startup Bringing Artificial Intelligence To Brand Management
Let’s face it, data analysis can be a costly and time-consuming affair and can sometimes take weeks or months of scouring through troves and troves of data from a number...
September 06, 2016
A Modern Take On The Ancient Pain Of Expense Reporting
Expensify announces today (Sept. 6) that it’s opening new offices in Australia. It may seem like global expansion for the expense management company, but according to CEO David Barrett, it’s...
September 05, 2016
Amazon’s Poaches eBay Exec To Push Machine-Learning Play
There’s a new sheriff in town in Amazon‘s AI operations: Hassan Sawaf, who heretofore was doing the same job at eBay. Sawaf will now head Amazon’s A9 labs, and his...
September 02, 2016
AI Startup Mad Street Den Closes Series A Round Of...
Artificial intelligence may still seem futuristic to many, but a startup trying to bring artificial intelligence into our daily lives has piqued the interest of investors, reportedly raising $5 million...
September 01, 2016
Is Your Digital Assistant Devious?
Posted by Social Science Research Network Is Your Digital Assistant Devious? Ariel Ezrachi (University of Oxford) & Maurice E. Stucke (University of Tennessee) Abstract: Who wouldn’t want a personal...
August 30, 2016
Los Angeles eProcurement Startup Eyes Europe
A Los Angeles procurement technology startup has secured new investment for growth. Cloud procurement firm Vroozi announced $4 million in growth equity led by private equity firm Ally Holdings, also...
August 29, 2016
When It’s Time To Boot The Bots
Five years ago, Cornell University’s Creative Machine Labs almost broke YouTube with a video of two bots talking to each other. Whether you found it hilarious, mesmerizing, curious or even uncomfortable,...
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