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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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8.4KAPIHow APIs Are Fostering Collaboration Between FinTechs And Banks
In the past, banks and FinTechs have been known to lock horns like (financially savvy) reality TV stars. Can APIs build a...
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13.1KAPIAPI As Olive Branch? Silicon Valley Bank Seeks To End FI Rivalry
The rivalry between banks and FinTechs has, at times, been tense if not downright combative. Enter APIs to help the two sides...
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6.0KMastercardFluidAI And Building The Science Fiction Future Of Commerce Now
Startups are full of surprises, sometimes even for the people who found them. Such was the experience of FluidAI co-founder and CEO...
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8.2KRetailAI/BOTS: Consumer Behavior Transformation Via AI
Gone are the days of mom-and-pop stores where the owner behind the counter knew what the customer wanted before he or she...
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6.7KResTechDigital Ordering: Do It Right, Or Not At All
Digital ordering is a win for everybody. It’s easy for modern consumers, who would rather tap or click to order than talk...
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8.0KIntelligence of ThingsRobot v. Food?
When it comes to building a better burger, can an IoT-connected robot cut the mustard? In the latest PYMNTS.com Intelligence of Things...
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8.5KRetailThe Pros And Cons Of Robots In Retail
Between automated checkout lines, online grocery ordering and meal kit services, it seems like the inexorable tide of progress is determined to...
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8.7KIntelligence of ThingsNEW REPORT: When Robots Man The Grill
There’s been no shortage of speculation — including doomsday declarations — about the potential impact of automation, smart technology and artificial intelligence (AI) on...
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6.0KGoogleGoogle Hires Former Essential Exec For Home Improvement
As much as Google would like users to believe there’s no device like Home, the smart speaker is not exactly delivering an...
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5.4KRetailChatbot Tracker: Weighing Your Options
Chatbots are everywhere these days and are hot topics of conversation among retailers. Learning how to best leverage this relatively new interactive...
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5.8KPayment MethodsPayPal Backs UK Startup Cloud IQ In Funding Round
Cloud IQ, a U.K. startup that optimizes eCommerce, has raised £4 million in venture funding. According to a report, PayPal, Nauta Capital,...
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4.9KFacebookFacebook Buys AI Startup Ozlo For Messenger
Facebook, the social media giant, has acquired Ozlo, a Silicon Valley artificial intelligence (AI) tech startup, in an effort to build out...
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11.8KArtificial IntelligenceBuilding Fraud’s Meta-Machine
OK, this is about to get meta.
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6.6KRetailOnline Marketplaces Catching Up To Offline World
If a marketplace can work for aggregating goods from disparate providers, why not for services, too? After all, service industries make up...
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6.1KMerchant InnovationSEB Launches Voice-Activated Assistant Aida To Improve Customer Service
SEB AB, the largest bank in Sweden, is getting into the voice-activated digital assistant game with the launch of Aida. According to a...
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8.2KRetailChatbots: Friend Or Foe Of Retail?
Automation has come to several industries. From manufacturing to customer service, there have been several parts of today’s workforce that have been...
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5.3KRetaileBay Adds New Image Recognition to Its Search Options
Founded in 1995, some may say eBay is the original online marketplace. With more than 20 years in the eCommerce business, eBay...
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4.6KTech CenterTech Center: Montreal On Tech’s Radar
Known for its delicious poutine, beer and scenic views, Montreal is more than just a place for New Englanders to go for...
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10.2KArtificial IntelligenceAI/BOTS: Machine Learning Tips Online Fraud Scales
Technological advances are pushing the boundaries for what’s possible in a variety of industries. Within the retail industry specifically, artificial intelligence (AI)...
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3.0KStartupsObEN Raises $5M From Tencent To Take On AI Celebrity Scene
ObEN, which uses artificial intelligence-powered tools to create avatars that look and sound like real people, announced it has raised $5 million...
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5.2KInternet of ThingsKaramba And Securing The Connected Car Future
The connected car future is more or less becoming the connected car present, and with that changeover, cars are becoming more than...
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5.8KFinancial InclusionUnifund CEO Consumer Credit Caution: “Time To Stop Getting Lost In The Averages”
Credit, and the consumer’s relationship with it, has changed rather dramatically over time. But those changes can only be seen if one...
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6.3KChatbotsAI/BOTS: Artificial Intelligence’s Impact On Jobs
Robots are coming for your job! Run! As more chatbots enter the enterprise arena, as well as the retail industry, for customer...
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8.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMastercard Acquires Brighterion To Further Expand AI Capabilities
Mastercard announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Brighterion, Inc., a leading software company that specializes in artificial intelligence (AI)....
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10.7KB2B PaymentsOnline Lending’s New “Colossus”
It used to be that small businesses needing loans could wait weeks or months for a decision from the provider, with pre-qualification...
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11.8KFacebookFacebook’s New Revenue Strategy: Messenger Ads
Even an infinite scroll only generates a finite number of ad clicks. Facebook has just about maximized the amount of money it...
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3.0KArtificial IntelligenceElon Musk: AI Needs To Be Regulated
There have already been movies about artificial intelligence (AI) and what it could possibly do in terms of harming us. Robots taking...
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6.1KB2B PaymentsACH Becoming The Mediator Between Conflicting AR, AP Needs
Just a few weeks ago, the Global Payments Innovation Jury – a group of 70 payments executives across 37 countries – published...
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4.5KSizzle/FizzleAmazon Sizzles, Apple Fizzles And A High Profile Merger Fizzle Before It Starts
Some partnerships seemed destined, perhaps even written in the stars — Romeo & Juliet, Tony & Maria or (of course) Kimye are all...
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13.9KChatbotsAI/BOTS: AI’s Impact on The Digital Retail Revolution
The digital retail revolution is well underway. Fusing technology into in-store experiences has officially gone mainstream, and retailers are looking for ways...
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4.9KSecurity & FraudDeep Instinct Raises $32M In Venture Funding
Deep Instinct, the cybersecurity company, announced Wednesday (July 12) it has raised $32 million in Series B financing. In a press release...
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3.4KGoogleGoogle Buys India AI Startup Halli Labs
Google confirmed Wednesday (July 12) its acquisition of Halli Labs, a startup in India that is centered on building smart technology systems...
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5.1KRetailAI Use at Walmart Boosts eCommerce Numbers
Brick-and-mortar stores are dropping like flies, but one chain is not going down without a fight. By integrating machine learning into its...
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7.7KBig DataMaking Connected Car Data Monetizable
The average car generates gigabytes of data already — between the engine, infotainment and other computerized systems. And that is only today — before...
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Google And AI: The Perfect PAIR?
Speech recognition, image search, translation — those are just the beginning for artificial intelligence, if Google is reading its pulse right. While machines...
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5.2KB2B PaymentsMizuho Makes Progress In Blockchain Trade Finance Initiative
Japan’s Mizuho Bank is moving forward with plans to use blockchain for trade finance. The bank said Friday (July 7) that it...
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6.2KChatbots And CommerceAI/BOT: Where Do Chatbots Go From Here?
Within the past year, Facebook’s Messenger has been responsible for the boom in chatbot growth. With more than 100,000 businesses creating interactive...
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5.2KB2B PaymentsPrevise Lands $2.58M For AI-Powered Invoice Financing Platform
U.K. startup Previse, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered invoice financing platform, has announced new seed funding. Recent reports said Previse raised $2.58 million in funding...
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4.8KB2B PaymentsHow Tech Can Help Uncover The Story Behind Financial Data
For a chief financial officer (CFO), having technology — from ERP systems to cloud accounting and cash forecasting tools — has become...
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7.6KB2B PaymentsSage Accounting Chat Bot Lands In Canada
Sage‘s accounting chat bot is expanding. The company said this week that its AI-powered chat bot, Pegg, will be available to companies...
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4.9KB2B PaymentsRegTech And AI Tackle The Maddening Hurdle Of Conflicting Financial Policies
Regulation has historically been a challenge for the financial services space, but considering today’s fast pace of change in both financial services...
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7.7KBankingLive More. Bank Less. Bot Smarter.
Singapore’s DBS Bank has a philosophy — Live More, Bank Less — which, at first seems like an odd mission for a multinational bank to...
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7.4KArtificial IntelligenceIBM Is In D.C. Making The Case Why AI Won’t Destroy Mankind
IBM is in Washington, D.C., this week to make the case to federal government officials that artificial intelligence isn’t going to steal...
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8.2KRetailAI/BOT: Is AI The Key To Retail’s Survival?
Maybe. Over the course of the last few years, eCommerce has sprung up and put the brick-and-mortar side of the retail industry...
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7.5KCEO SeriesMitek’s CEO On Keeping The Right “Innovation Head Space”
Innovation in the tech industry moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you could...
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Fraugster Launches eCommerce Fraud Prevention Tool
Fraud protection will likely be an ongoing task for merchants. This week, German-Israeli payment security company Fraugster debuted its answer to the fraud conundrum. The...
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5.0KB2B PaymentsHow AI Catches Costly Overpayments To Suppliers
Even with the rise in eInvoicing and electronic B2B payments, disconnects, miscommunication and erroneous transactions plague the accounts payable department. Finding where...
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8.2KCEO SeriesHow To Feed The Fraud Fighting Machine
How do machines learn to learn? In Episode Three of PYMNTS’ machine learning podcast, Socure CEO Sunil Madhu and PYMNTS CEO Karen...
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6.2KSafety and SecurityNTechLab’s FindFace Facial Recognition Technology Has Applications In Retail, Public Safety
FindFace started as a futuristic social technology for identifying strangers by scanning their faces with a smartphone camera. Two years later, the facial...
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4.2KChatbotsAI/BOT: Digital Evolution Of The Enterprise
With each new major advancement that touches upon the workforce, there comes an inevitable evolution that occurs. When the United States underwent...
