AI | PYMNTS.com

Before You Use The Word ‘Deep,’ Show Me The Learning

Winter is coming — an AI winter, that is. Artificial intelligence (AI) winter, or a period of reduced interest and investment spending...

1.0K

Ecosystems

The Pixel And The Google Ecosystem

The Pixel 2 isn’t Google’s first smartphone. It’s not even really technically its second phone — there were the Nexus devices of the...

Feedzai Lands $50M To Expand AI Fraud Prevention Business

Feedzai, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based fraud prevention company focused on helping enterprises manage risk and fight fraud in real time, announced Tuesday...

1.8K

Matchmakers

The Startup That’s Using AI To Take On The Grocery Giants

“In a world where everything can be delivered to my doorstep, why am I wandering around a Safeway at nine o’clock at...

Voice Activation

The Future Is Still Unclear For Voice Shopping

Voice shopping is still a relatively new phenomenon, but it’s one that nearly 20 percent of consumers have used and another 33...

4.8K

Commerce

Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?

Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old. The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale...

1.7K

Procurement Firm Xeeva Secures AI Patents

Procurement software company Xeeva is strengthening its technology portfolio through the acquisition of artificial intelligence-related patents, the company announced Friday (Oct. 6)....

3.0K

Alibaba Makes Chinese Gas Stations Smart

Alibaba is preparing to open its first smart gas station in its home city of Hangzhou, China by the end of the...

4.0K

Partnerships / Acquisitions

Pew Says Consumers Not Ready For Robots Or Self-Driving Cars

When it comes to advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), new research finds that Americans are more worried than excited about...

1.8K

Apple Acquires Init.ai To Help Siri Get Smarter

Startup Init.ai announced that it is discontinuing its service – a smart assistant for customer representatives – to join Apple and work...

Banking

KAI Banking Powers AI At TD Bank

Kasisto, the AI chat technology company, announced Wednesday (Oct. 4) that TD Bank, a financial company in North America, is using the...

The Pixel 2, The Mini-Home And The AI Tie That Binds

Promoting product releases has become something of an art form in Silicon Valley. There is the day itself, of course, but also the...

Amazon Wants To Go 3D With Body Labs Acquisition

Amazon has announced further expansion, this time through the acquisition of Manhattan-based artificial intelligence (AI) 3D body scanning startup Body Labs, according...

2.3K

What It Takes For A Bank To Go Digital — And Keep Its Customers

The financial services landscape is quickly evolving from a rivalry between traditional banks and FinTechs to one of collaboration, but this gradual...

2.6K

Fraud Prevention

Trulioo’s New Tool Can Tell You If A Company Is Legit

Trulioo, the global identification company, announced news on Wednesday (Oct. 4) that it launched its Global Business Verification solution aimed at providing...

Salesforce Sees Future In AI With $50M Investment

Salesforce announced that its venture wing is launching a $50 million fund to invest in start-ups employing artificial intelligence. Reuters reported that...

5.2K

Time To Up The IQ On Artificial Intelligence

What’s so intelligent about artificial intelligence if it needs human data scientists to hold its hand through every little function? It may...

4.6K

Startup Check-In

Jewel Paymentech Puts Banks On Par With FinTechs

There’s one thing banks and FinTechs can agree on: Those old-fashioned merchant onboarding processes take way too long. But nimble FinTechs have...

3.8K

ResTech

Burger Bots Could Flip The QSR Industry On Its Head

Pasadena, California-based startup Miso Robotics is ready to introduce Flippy, the automated fast-food burger-flipper — and, according to many, the beginning of the...

2.4K

Chatbots

Can Chatbot Concierges Save The Mall?

Physical retail has had its share of problems recently, and consumers are finding it increasingly easy to shop digital and save themselves...

2.8K

Artificial Intelligence A Potential Wakeup Call To Enterprise App Fatigue

App fatigue is hardly a new phenomenon. Between mobile devices, desktop computers and tablets, consumers are working with dozens of apps, toggling...

2.2K

Apple

Apple Gives Siri a Psych Eval

A new job posting by Apple is searching for someone who wants to “play a part in the next revolution in human-computer...

7.6K

Merchant Innovation

Using AI To Power The Retail Experience

When is milk not milk? This is no trick question — it’s a distinction that artificial intelligence (AI) is going to have to...

The Money-Mover That’s A Money-Mentor, Too

“Can I afford a Tesla? If not, can you help me save for one?” These questions were once reserved for financial advisers....

2.0K

Avast Sees 40 Percent Uptick In Hacks Targeted At Android Devices

Digital security products company Avast announced new research Monday (Sept. 11) that shows an increase in the number of cyberattacks on Android...

3.5K

Data

Data-R-Us: The Purchase And Sale Of Data

Where do analysts get their data? It’s not like they can just stroll up to a retailer like Data-R-Us and buy it...

2.5K

Intelligence of Things

The Smarter Car: Who Will Get There First?

Apple won’t be building that self-driving car — or, at least, not the way it originally envisioned. It came to light last month...

3.0K

AI Tracker: From Game Of Thrones To Biases, AI Had A Big Week

There are those who get excited about AI and those who fear it — and for everyone in between, there’s speculation. The...

1.9K

Payment Methods

Paris Hilton Announces Participation In Upcoming LydianCoin ICO

Paris Hilton tweeted over the weekend that she is planning to participate in the upcoming LydianCoin initial coin offering. According to the Financial...

3.4K

Could AI Cause The Next World War? Elon Musk Thinks So

Days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the first global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) would “become the ruler of the...

3.9K

Voice Activation

Making Voice Assistants Allies In Health

Orbita CEO Bill Rogers has a relative with dementia. As dementia patients often do, she repeats a lot of the same questions,...

1.4K

Amazon

Amazon Tracker: Where The Customers Are

Amazon is meeting its customers where they are. In the U.K., the eCommerce giant is letting shoppers load up their accounts using...

5.1K

From AI To T&E, B2B FinTechs Rake $141 Million

Don’t let the lack of news about mega-grossing venture capital (VC) rounds fool you. This week’s B2B venture capital activity led to...

Adobe To Embed AI Into Email Marketing Tools

Adobe, which Tuesday (Aug. 29) rolled out a slew of new features for its Adobe Campaign email marketing tools, is gearing up...

4.4K

Man Plus Machine: Better Together In The Fight Against Fraud

Fraudsters are like those wanton drivers running red lights while they text or granting themselves the right of way in a rotary...

2.9K

Amazon Innovations

Could Amazon’s Bots Be The Next Hot Fashion Designers?

Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, Vera Wang and … Amazon? That could be the list of hot designers creating the latest fashions someday...

3.7K

Banking

Banking, with Artificial (and Real) Intelligence

Can traditional banking get a lift from conversation – specifically, chatbots? One firm, Kasisto, thinks so, with its KAI Banking, a conversational AI platform...

3.1K

Startup Roundup

The Start-Up Secret Sauce

For all the wonderful things to be said for entrepreneurship, there remains this fact: It is extremely hard work that carries with...

7.3K

AI/BOTS: AI Bank Tech And Millennials

Being connected via modern technology is something that’s becoming an expectation among consumers. From groceries to home buying, back-to-school shopping and more,...

1.8K

CubeLogic Embraces Trade Credit Insurance

Business intelligence company CubeLogic has announced its support for Trade Credit Insurance as part of an overall risk mitigation strategy. The company...

2.5K

More Than 23,000 Robots Will Be Deployed In Customer Service Roles

Robots may keep Tesla’s CEO up at night, but companies around the globe are interested in putting them to work, according to...

BofA Turns To AI For New Payment Reconciliation Tool

Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced news on Tuesday (Aug. 22) of Intelligent Receivables, a new service that relies on artificial intelligence (AI)...

2.2K

Startup Check-In

Jewel Paymentech: Tech’s Role In Upending The Banking System

Payments are the connective tissue between businesses today. And, as digital avenues find their way into every nook and cranny of a...

4.6K

Voice Activation

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Empathy

Paging Dr. Alexa: How are you feeling? It may not be long before virtual, voice-controlled assistants can tell and answer accordingly. Mattersight...

1.7K

ThoughtSpot Raises $60M To Take On AI In Data Analytics

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us in today’s technology-driven society. From smartphones to digital assistants like Alexa and Bixby as well...

3.3K

The Buyers: Teen Retail Engagement

It can be argued that some of the toughest buyers to keep in mind when planning out retail strategies are teenagers. With...