Moving money across borders may be one of the last steps in an international payment. Getting the money ready to move can take considerably longer. Before a multinational company pays an overseas supplier, its finance team often needs to verify the counterparty, reconcile an invoice...
Picture this. You ask an artificial intelligence assistant to find you cheaper car insurance, then you go to bed. By morning, the AI agent has checked a dozen companies and lined up a better deal. While that future is getting closer, the insurance industry has...
Artificial intelligence and hardware startup Natura has reportedly debuted a smart ring designed to let users interact with AI agents. The company’s new Interface ring, the subject of a Thursday (Oct. 8) TechCrunch report, sells for $99 and allows users to have AI agents complete tasks while also...
Insurance companies are reportedly anticipating multimillion-dollar claims related to so-called “rogue” artificial intelligence (AI) agents. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Oct. 6) by the Financial Times (FT), which says the situation has insurers and their attorneys worried that CEOs such as Sam Altman of...
September 03, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents, stablecoins and tokenized securities put some of the mechanics of digital finance before lawmakers Wednesday (Sept. 2), including how software-driven transactions will be authorized and settled. At a House Financial Services Committee hearing that ranged across tech-driven innovation’s role against a backdrop of financial regulation and economic policy, members of Congress […]
September 02, 2026
Watch more: Digital Shift With Spreedly’s Adam Hiatt Bots are bad. That, at least, has been digital commerce’s operating assumption since the category’s inception. Automated activity was associated with credential...
July 06, 2026
As the training wheels start to look like they can come off for The Prompt Economy, the next phase of agentic AI is starting to look less like a lab...
May 25, 2026
Most merchants have prepared for every kind of customer except the one arriving now. AI agents do not browse, do not click, and do not read product descriptions written for...
October 08, 2026
Artificial intelligence and hardware startup Natura has reportedly debuted a smart ring designed to let users interact with AI agents. The company’s new Interface ring, the subject of a Thursday (Oct. 8) TechCrunch report, sells for $99 and allows users to have AI agents complete tasks while also tracking their health. Founder Carlo Edoardo Ferraris told TechCrunch that after years […]
October 06, 2026
Insurance companies are reportedly anticipating multimillion-dollar claims related to so-called “rogue” artificial intelligence (AI) agents. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Oct. 6) by the Financial Times (FT), which says...
October 04, 2026
Apple is changing its Mac operating system to make it clearer when artificial intelligence agents seek access to the devices’ data. In a Friday (Oct. 2) blog post, the company...
September 27, 2026
OpenAI has revealed another incident in which one of its artificial intelligence models has breached a third-party website. The AI startup wrote in a blog entry Friday (Sept. 25) that...
