Artificial Intelligence news and trends

Amazon Seized More Than 15 Million Counterfeit Products in 2024
Amazon // March 26, 2025

Amazon continued its fight against counterfeit goods in 2024 by using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, seeing that counterfeiters are held liable and increasing brands’ use of its brand protection features. The company’s AI tools that proactively block infringements stopped more than 99% of suspected infringements...

Beyond the Hype: What CFOs Should Know About AI Agents
Artificial Intelligence // March 25, 2025

When chief financial officers (CFOs) consider implementing agentic artificial intelligence (AI), they should treat it like other technologies their companies have adopted in the past, with some adjustments to mitigate specific risks that come with the new system. There’s a good reason for this approach:...

Paid Raises $10.8 Million to Scale Financial Infrastructure for AI Agents
Artificial Intelligence // March 25, 2025

Paid announced its launch and said it raised 10 million euros (about $10.8 million) to scale its financial infrastructure that helps the builders of artificial intelligence agents get paid. The company’s solution enables builders to use billing methods designed specifically for AI agents, rather than...

OpenAI Adds New Image Generation Capabilities to GPT-4o
artificial intelligence // March 25, 2025

OpenAI has added new image generation capabilities that are native to GPT-4o, saying the model can now produce precise and photorealistic images. “GPT-4o image generation excels at accurately rendering text, precisely following prompts and leveraging 4o’s inherent knowledge base and chat context — including transforming...

Interviews & Exclusives
Future of Bank Security Is Being Written by Ethical Hackers

March 26, 2025
Historically, banks built security the same way they built vaults: thick walls, high fences and minimal exposure. But digital transformation has upended that perimeter. Open banking APIs, third-party FinTech integrations, cloud-native architectures and rapid app deployments have created an attack surface far too broad for static defenses. Banks’ security postures have to evolve in parallel […]

Sweatin’ to the Chatbot: Echelon Targets Consumers With Hyper-Personalized Fitness

March 25, 2025
Echelon Fitness is rolling out a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) assistant for the users of its fitness equipment that adds a unique personalization capability: You can “talk” to a chatbot...

Middle-Market Firms Wary of Smaller AI-Driven Rivals

March 25, 2025
In the business realm, the word “startup” conjures up the garage as innovation lab, the bootstrapping and scrapping micro-firm that has the potential to disrupt an industry and grow into...

AI Gives Customer Service Positive Revenue Spin

March 24, 2025
Enterprises are expanding their use of artificial intelligence (AI) in customer experience to encompass the entirety of the process, not just relegating it to back-office tasks. In addition to speeding...

Quick Reads
Amazon Seized More Than 15 Million Counterfeit Products in 2024

March 26, 2025
Amazon continued its fight against counterfeit goods in 2024 by using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, seeing that counterfeiters are held liable and increasing brands’ use of its brand protection features. The company’s AI tools that proactively block infringements stopped more than 99% of suspected infringements before a brand had to find and report them, Amazon […]

Paid Raises $10.8 Million to Scale Financial Infrastructure for AI Agents

March 25, 2025
Paid announced its launch and said it raised 10 million euros (about $10.8 million) to scale its financial infrastructure that helps the builders of artificial intelligence agents get paid. The...

OpenAI Adds New Image Generation Capabilities to GPT-4o

March 25, 2025
OpenAI has added new image generation capabilities that are native to GPT-4o, saying the model can now produce precise and photorealistic images. “GPT-4o image generation excels at accurately rendering text,...

HoneyBook Debuts AI Business Management Tools to Help SMBs

March 25, 2025
HoneyBook, a business platform for service-based entrepreneurs, introduced artificial intelligence-powered business management tools. “While AI solutions have largely been built for enterprises or consumers, independent entrepreneurs have been left with...