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In computer science, artificial intelligence, sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans.
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247Artificial IntelligenceGoogle CEO Calls For AI Governance
In a Sunday opinion column in The Financial Times (FT), Google and Alphabet chief executive officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai wrote about the...
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1.0KSubscription CommerceDeep Dive: How Securing Customer Onboarding Can Curb Negative Option Billing Subscription Creep
The subscription eCommerce market is a favorite among consumers and businesses, growing more than 100 percent annually for the past five years....
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952Fraud PreventionProtecting Against Sharing Platform ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ Scams
Not all of the nearly 15 million U.S. RV campers who rely on online vehicle marketplaces get what they pay for. Scammers...
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1.5KArtificial IntelligenceEU Considers Tightening AI Regulations For ‘High-Risk’ Sectors
Seeking to keep things ethical in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the European Union wants to enact legally binding requirements for...
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1.4KCross-border PaymentsTrint On Safeguarding The Customer Experience
The speech-to-text API market is predicted to grow to $4.1 billion by 2024, so long as rampant fraud and rising churn don’t...
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2.9KAppleApple Makes $200M Acquisition In Race For AI Dominance
Apple shelled out $200 million for an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that makes smart devices smarter, topping bids by Microsoft, Amazon and...
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2.4KFraud PreventionHow AI Helps Marketplaces Fight Off-Platform Fraud
Fraudsters are starting off the new decade armed with the stolen data and credentials of millions of global consumers, and they are...
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2.3KCredit UnionsCredit Unions Place Big Bet On AI And Biometrics
A new decade — and for credit unions (CUs), might this be the decade of data as a conduit of trust, a...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsHow Big Data Guides The Accountant’s Evolution
Technology continues to initiate change in the role of accountants from number-crunchers to strategic advisors. With client requirements in flux, and with...
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2.2KB2B PaymentsPlotly Gets $1.7M From Scale AI
Data science and artificial intelligence (AI) technology company Plotly has received a $1.7 million contribution from Scale AI, an innovation hub that...
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7.2KCross-border PaymentsUsing Data To Fight Subscriber Churn
The subscription business model is growing sharply across the globe, and for good reason. Companies can bank on its recurring revenue stream...
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6.7KMastercardUsing AI To Keep Issuers On The Right Side Of Credit Risk
As 2020 gets into full swing, artificial intelligence (AI) is in a peculiar position. It’s like that cool new kid everyone knows...
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1.9KFacebookZuckerberg Predicts Big Advancements In AR Tech In 2020s
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is excited about augmented reality tech, which he thinks can address a number of social problems. Zuckerberg, in...
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1.6KArtificial IntelligenceAGI Firm Soul Machine Snags $40M To Advance Human-Machine Connections
Autonomous animation platform Soul Machines has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Temasek, with new participation from...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsProcurement AI Tackles The Drawbacks Of Sluggish ePayments Adoption
Enterprise digitization continues to ramp up the availability of data, and open up new opportunities for in-depth analysis of that information. However,...
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1.6KInnovationFederal Government Is ‘All In’ For Autonomous Vehicles
As it rolled out new federal agency guidance at the annual CES event, the Trump administration showed strong support for autonomous vehicles....
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2.1KRetailWalmart Launches Grocery-Picking Robot
Walmart is aiming to solidify its position as America’s largest grocer with a grocery-picking robot called Alphabot that is said to pick,...
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3.4KInvestmentsIsraeli Tech Startups Boost Funding 30 Pct. YOY
Israel’s technology sector had a banner year in 2019, raising $8.3 billion in 522 deals, a 30 percent growth over 2018, ZAG...
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2.2KRegulationTrump Administration Presents New AI Regulations For Federal Agencies
The Trump administration recently submitted new rules governing any future federal regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) used in an array of industries,...
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1.7KInnovationGoogle Assistant Previews Upcoming Voice AI Feature
Google Assistant is aiming to help users in even more ways thanks to new features the company debuted at CES 2020 throughout...
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2.3KRetailHow Auto Sales Are Driving New Retail Trends
The longstanding practice of selling automobiles is getting a change — reflecting larger trends in commerce. For instance, online marketplace and auction...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsThe Financial Literacy Link To Supply Chain Digitization
Supply chain management is increasingly more strategic than operational, enabling businesses around the world to improve their bottom lines while meeting the...
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4.8KVoice ActivationAlexa Payments Coming For ExxonMobil Customers
ExxonMobil and Fiserv have teamed up to let people pay for gas with Alexa at the pump, according to a release. People...
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2.0KInnovationRivian Electric Vehicles To Offer Alexa Capability
Rivian, an electric car company backed by Amazon, will add Alexa voice assistant capability to its R1T pickup and R1S SUV, which...
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2.2KRetailWhy The Road To Retail Innovation Often Runs Through Apparel
When it comes to retail innovation, you can usually count on consumers’ constant need for clothes to help drive new trends. At...
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1.9KArtificial IntelligenceTrump Administration Requires License For Certain AI Software Exports
New rules from the Trump administration will make it more difficult to export artificial intelligence data, with an eye toward keeping sensitive...
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2.4KRetailHow Tech Is Reinventing How Brides Say Yes To The Dress
A typical episode of TLC’s “Say Yes To The Dress” can offer one the basic sketch of the drama that is buying...
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4.5KTaxesOnline Sales Tax’s ‘Pivotal,’ Post-Wayfair 2019 — And What Lies Ahead
There are certain years (and events) that represent significant shifts in business, where there was a way things were done — until...
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11.1KInnovationSamsung’s New Fridge Uses AI To Track Food Inventory
Samsung has introduced a new refrigerator that’s the latest addition to its Family Hub lineup, with artificial intelligence (AI) and features that...
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4.6KCredit UnionsCredit Union’s API Drive To Digital Innovation
It wasn’t very long ago that nearly every banking-connected function required a trip to the local branch. Even the simplest tasks like...
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4.7KInnovationCES 2020 Opens The Door On A New Decade
If it’s not the holiest of holies for those involved in payments and commerce, it sure comes reasonably close. We are talking...
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9.2KArtificial IntelligenceSamsung To Launch ‘Artificial Human’ Called Neon
Samsung disclosed that it will introduce an “artificial human” called Neon at CES 2020 on Jan. 7 that is totally different than...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsAccounts Receivable Realigns Its Focus To User Experience
The last decade of B2B FinTech innovation not only led to an explosion of product options for businesses to manage a variety...
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2.0KFraud PreventionDeep Dive: The Importance Of Taking Fraud Decisioning Strategies Omnichannel
Online firms and their banking partners have both the means and motives to stop fraudsters from accessing personal information, but today’s connected...
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6.0KRetailHow AI Will Decide What You Wear
At the start of the 2010s, retail merchandising was, at base, a lot of guesswork. The fashion industry made decisions on its...
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6.3KPayment Methods12 Ways Consumers Will Pay (And Be Paid) In 2020
Past is prologue. For the annual holiday exercise at PYMNTS (describing the 12 main or most exciting ways to pay in 2019),...
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1.8KInvestmentsAI-Powered Travel Bot Eddy Travels Raises $500K In Pre-Seed Funding
An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered travel bot called Eddy Travels has raised about $500,000 in a pre-Seed funding round, according to reports. The...
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5.1KSecurity & FraudMastercard Acquires RiskRecon To Boost Cybersecurity
Mastercard is purchasing artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics startup RiskRecon to accelerate the development of cybersecurity solutions, Mastercard announced on Tuesday (Dec....
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2.5KArtificial IntelligenceChinese Finance Group Calls For AI Regulation In Ecosystem
Policy advisers at a leading think tank said that China should introduce a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence in the finance sector,...
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1.7KFraud PreventionDeep Dive: Clean And Friendly Fraud Play Dirty
Fraud comes in many forms, and the fight against it never ends. Fraudsters pretending to be someone else generally take one of...
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1.7KFraud PreventionPriceline Uses AI To Stop Fraudsters In Their Tracks
The $755 billion online travel industry is a honeypot for bad actors looking to use stolen payment credentials to purchase vacation packages...
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6.4KMastercardMastercard On Overcoming AI’s Bias Problem
Savor this moment — these coming weeks, the next few months, the year or two that will follow. These are the last...
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2.0KRetailRetail Gets Even More Personal As The Year Winds Down
You can count on at least one thing for retail in 2020: Things will get much more personal. Evidence of that comes...
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4.5KFraud PreventionHow AI Helps Priceline Ground Fraudsters, Lets Customers Take Off
Fraud continues to plague the digital world, despite the fortunes spent to curb it. Industries that operate solely online are some of...
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2.6KLoansFinTechs, AI And The Rise Of SMB Credit In Brazil
One of the biggest tests for FinTech in the coming years is how well it can serve businesses that don’t have easy...
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3.2KSecurity & FraudNew Facebook AI Doubles Detection Of Fake Accounts
Facebook has been using a new type of artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and delete hundreds of millions of fake accounts, according...
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1.7KVoice ActivationSensory’s Voice Tech Platform Expands ‘Wake’ Word Options
Embedded voice, vision and biometrics artificial intelligence (AI) company Sensory has announced that its wake word engine, TrulyHandsfree, has new capabilities that...
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2.2KPayments InnovationHow Outdoorsy Is Balancing Buyer, Seller Payments In The RV World
Sharing platforms in the $50 billion RV market are just the latest example of a sharing economy marketplace trying to grapple with...
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3.4KSecurity & FraudWhy Securing Digital Transactions Is On Every Merchant’s Wish List
While dealing with fraud has always been a cost of doing business for merchants, the digital age has changed the game in...
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6.2KInnovationJPMorgan Employs Machine Learning For Expense Reports
JPMorgan Chase has been using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to process expense reports and check them for compliance, according to...
