Mistral released an updated version of its Large 4 artificial intelligence model, saying in a Thursday (Oct. 29) announcement that it comes with improved coding and cybersecurity capabilities. The model builds on a version released in public preview earlier this month, the French startup said...
Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere said in a Thursday (Oct. 29) company blog post that it rejects what it called “frontier fatalism.” That’s its term for the belief that AI will be monopolized by a handful of United States and Chinese tech giants. To offer...
Hyphenate, a company that develops artificial intelligence agents for finance departments, raised $45 million in new funding, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Oct. 27). The new financing will allow Hyphenate to deepen its footprint in accounting and strategic finance, according to the report. “Our proprietary reinforcement learning...
Wall Street’s next generation of artificial intelligence companies is taking shape around three businesses, including those that own financial data, those that turn it into research and analysis, and those that control the proprietary content investors rely on to make decisions. The emerging market includes...
July 30, 2026
Most consumer apps run on the same logic. An algorithm scans what already exists and serves the user the closest match. Kaon AI CEO and Co-Founder Jay Dang said the model has a ceiling built into it. In a conversation with PYMNTS, Dang said Kaon skips algorithmic recommendation altogether. Rather than surface the best existing […]
February 04, 2026
Adding crypto into the finance stack has traditionally had the flair of a younger business. On Tuesday (Feb. 3), the startup incubator Y Combinator (YC) codified that impression, announcing that...
November 10, 2025
Kamran Ansari has lived through nearly every major turn in FinTech, from the first digital wallets and mobile payments to the rise (and recalibration) of billion-dollar disruptors. With nearly 100...
October 08, 2025
The FinTech initial public offering (IPO) market has roared back to life in 2025 after several quiet years. However, it’s not the same speculative surge that defined the last cycle....
October 30, 2026
Easol raised $30 million in a Series A extension funding round to continue scaling its experience commerce platform designed for festivals, wellness retreats, sports, adventure and location-based entertainment venues, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 28) press release. Easol’s extension funding round includes $20 million equity and a $10 million debt facility, and it […]
October 29, 2026
Mistral released an updated version of its Large 4 artificial intelligence model, saying in a Thursday (Oct. 29) announcement that it comes with improved coding and cybersecurity capabilities. The model...
October 29, 2026
Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere said in a Thursday (Oct. 29) company blog post that it rejects what it called “frontier fatalism.” That’s its term for the belief that AI...
October 27, 2026
Hyphenate, a company that develops artificial intelligence agents for finance departments, raised $45 million in new funding, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Oct. 27). The new financing will allow Hyphenate to deepen...
