Machine Learning news and trends

Hybrid AI Bridges Decision-Making Transparency Gap
Artificial Intelligence // November 14, 2025

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes part of everyday business operations, companies rethink how they want these systems to behave. AI models generate quick predictions but often struggle to explain why the model chose a specific outcome. That lack of clarity leads to mistakes, customer friction...

Baseten Wants to Be the AWS of AI Inference. It Just Raised $150 Million to...
Artificial Intelligence // September 22, 2025

Watch more: Monday Conversation: Baseten, Tuhin Srivastava The story of any gold rush is rarely just about the miners who strike shiny veins. It is also about those who build the roads, sell the tools and lay the tracks.  After all, for companies to get...

Block Stops $2 Billion in Cash App Fraud by Alerting Customers to Scams
Cybersecurity // June 26, 2025

Watch more: Block Stops $2 Billion in Cash App Fraud by Alerting Customers to Scams There are signs that the good guys are gaining momentum against the bad guys. Scammers have refined their methodologies, increasingly injecting a palpable sense of urgency into their schemes. Texts...

Instacart CEO: 100x Business Growth at OpenAI Is ‘Just the Beginning’
Artificial Intelligence // June 13, 2025

Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sees OpenAI growing its business more than 100-fold as the synergy among its different lines of business — foundational artificial intelligence (AI) models, applications and AI devices — supercharges the company in the coming years. Speaking at the VivaTech 2025 conference...

Interviews & Exclusives
Baseten Wants to Be the AWS of AI Inference. It Just Raised $150 Million to Try

September 22, 2025
Watch more: Monday Conversation: Baseten, Tuhin Srivastava The story of any gold rush is rarely just about the miners who strike shiny veins. It is also about those who build the roads, sell the tools and lay the tracks.  After all, for companies to get to the AI-powered future, they will likely need infrastructure that […]

Block Stops $2 Billion in Cash App Fraud by Alerting Customers to Scams

June 26, 2025
Watch more: Block Stops $2 Billion in Cash App Fraud by Alerting Customers to Scams There are signs that the good guys are gaining momentum against the bad guys. Scammers...

Ulta Beauty’s AI Strategy Drives a 95% Customer Repurchase Rate

May 27, 2025
Ulta Beauty has built a fan following by making cosmetics accessible to the everyday shopper: It stocks not only premium brands but also mass-market cosmetics. This understanding that consumers buy...

Platform Lending Gets a $500 Million Vote of Confidence From Fortress Investment

May 21, 2025
The past few weeks have been a roller coaster for consumers. Inflation is still a fact of life, tariffs have influenced what we buy, and from whom. Earnings season has...

Quick Reads
Walmart Secures Machine Learning Patents to Aid Retail Pricing

March 18, 2026
Walmart has secured U.S. patents for two systems that would use machine learning to inform the company’s pricing, the Financial Times reported Wednesday (March 18). One patent is for a “system and method for dynamically and automatically updating item prices” for markdowns in its eCommerce unit, while the other is for using machine learning to predict […]

FICO Unveils B2B Data Exchange FICO Marketplace

May 07, 2025
FICO has introduced a digital hub designed to connect organizations with data and analytics providers. FICO Marketplace, announced Wednesday (May 7), offers access to data, artificial intelligence (AI) models, optimization...

Stripe Says AI Boom Drove 38% Increase in Payment Volume

February 27, 2025
Stripe’s investments in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) contributed to the financial infrastructure platform’s rapid growth in 2024, co-founders Patrick Collison and John Collison wrote in their annual...

Lightning AI Raises $50 Million for PyTorch Artificial Intelligence Framework

November 21, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) development platform Lightning AI has obtained a $50 million equity investment. The company, maker of the PyTorch Lightning open AI framework, announced the investment — from Cisco...