Ant International has announced an artificial intelligence-native financial stack that includes nearly 100products across payment, account, foreign exchange, treasury and growth operations, the company said in a Friday (Sept. 18) press release. The product suite is built on Ant International’s two proprietary foundation models, including...
KPN, the largest telecommunications firm in the Netherlands, is putting agentic artificial intelligence to work where customer service meets one of the industry’s biggest operational challenges: millions of routine conversations that still require time, systems access and human attention. KPN’s agentic AI case study, done in...
Looking to strengthen its bond with merchants, Ant International is getting bank accounts for artificial intelligence agents. Account for Agent sits inside WorldFirst, Ant’s global account brand, according to a Friday (Sept. 18) press release. The account runs on know your agent smart contracts, with...
Independent security researchers participating in an OpenAI bug-hunting program used Anthropic’s Claude to gain access to OpenAI’s private cache of software, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday (Sept. 18). The researchers from Hacktron AI reached the software by using Claude to gain access to an...
Insurers are in the predictability business. Artificial intelligence is an unpredictable technology. For CFOs and CISOs and their cyber insurance partners, that uncomfortable juxtaposition is becoming harder to ignore as enterprises move from generative AI that produces content toward agentic AI systems that can make...
State banking regulators are giving financial institutions a clearer view of how examiners may assess artificial intelligence, including generative AI systems that remain outside federal model-risk guidance. The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) released an Artificial Intelligence Supervisory Framework Tuesday (Sept. 16) for state-chartered banks and state-licensed nonbank...
Watch more: Digital Shift With Viggo Stenseth of SolvaPay The payments industry has devoted much effort to making sure a bot can’t pass for a customer. Agentic commerce brings a new complication, as some bots are supposed to buy things. SolvaPay, a Stockholm-based FinTech, is...
Cloudflare has started blocking artificial intelligence agents by default on pages that carry ads, putting the tools consumers use to compare products in direct conflict with the sites those tools need to read. The new preset for ad-supported domains allows search crawlers, refuses AI training...
Amazon said artificial intelligence labs should ensure models are safe and fully tested before releasing them but did not call for the industry to slow down, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 17). Reuters asked Amazon for the company’s views after several other large AI labs called...