The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is hosting a series of roundtables devoted to new technologies in U.S. financial markets. The Frontier Forum series, hosted by the CFTC’s Innovation Task Force, will kick off next month with a discussion of artificial intelligence and agentic finance,...
A DoorDash employee who wants to know why orders dipped in California last week can put the question to an artificial intelligence agent called Vera. Questions like that have previously been the data team’s job. DoorDash built the agent for its own staff. It answers...
Meta’s Muse reached No. 1 spot on Apple’s App store ranking 10 days after launch. It passed ChatGPT to get there. The debut was quite an auspicious one, and one PYMNTS took for a test drive. First, it’s important to understand a key difference. A...
Bank of America is ramping up investments in artificial intelligence ventures after initially being skeptical of the industry’s prospects, Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. 21). Until last year, Bank of America had been wary of AI companies’ ability to sustain their money-losing enterprises amid all their...
State and local governments are beginning to experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of taking actions on their own. According to new guidance issued by the Urban Institute, making sure governance structures in place before those systems become embedded in public services is an...
Amazon blocked Meta’s new personal artificial intelligence agent, Muse, from its eCommerce site, GeekWire reported Sunday (Sept. 20). Meta never informed Amazon that its Muse agent would access the online marketplace, the report said. In addition, the agent does not identify itself as it browses,...
Even digital signatures and contracts have a need for artificial intelligence these days. Case in point: Docusign. It ran large general-purpose AI models on every contract it processed, and at more than 1 million agreements a day the cost and delays became a problem. The...
Kastle, an agentic AI platform for consumer lenders, has raised $24 million in new funding. The company’s Series A round, announced last week and led by Insight Partners, will help Kastle expand its engineering, product and go-to-market teams, deepen its platforms’ capabilities and accelerate deployments...
Watch more: Digital Shift With Rutgers’ Dr. Amy Murtha It’s quite a time to launch a new medical school. First there are the standard issues of funding and partnerships. Second there’s the wild card of artificial intelligence that makes anything in healthcare rife with opportunities...