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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

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

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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. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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

September 22, 2025
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Block Stops $2 Billion in Cash App Fraud by Alerting Customers to Scams

June 26, 2025
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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. Get the Full Story Complete...

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). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS […]

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. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...