Tiny AI Models Could Give Retailers Big Cost Edge
Companies from corner stores to retail giants are discovering that pocket-sized artificial intelligence (AI) can ring up big…
Digital Currency Won’t Supplant Cash in UK
If the U.K. adopts a digital currency, citizens shouldn’t expect cash and coins to disappear. That’s according to…
Perplexity Says It Serves 100 Million Queries Per Week
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said Friday (Oct. 25) that the artificial intelligence (AI) search company is serving over…
Embedded Finance Finds Uses From Gig Economy to Nonprofits
As we head into the fourth quarter of arguably the most innovative year in payments since the pandemic,…
UK Launches Antitrust Probe Into Alphabet-Anthropic Partnership
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is in charge of antitrust regulation, is investigating a partnership…
Healthcare Call Firm Infinitus, Marketplace TollBit Net Funding
In a flurry of funding announcements, Infinitus Systems secured $51.5 million to automate healthcare calls, TollBit raised $24…
CEO Confidence Slips Amid Geopolitical Instability and Uncertainty
Growing concerns about geopolitical instability and legal and regulatory uncertainty accompanied a slight decline in CEO confidence in…
AI Giants Race to Deploy Digital Customer Service Agents
Microsoft’s rollout of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents marks one of Big Tech’s boldest pushes yet to unleash…
AWS and Box Partner to Help Businesses Build AI Applications
Users of the Box intelligent content management platform can now use Amazon Bedrock to build applications with their…
Kasisto Appoints Lance Berks CEO of Conversational AI Developer
Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) — the use of machine learning to facilitate natural language conversations between humans and…
Western Union’s Digital Business Sees 15% Growth
Western Union’s Branded Digital business saw 15% growth in transactions and 9% growth in revenue on a reported…
Garanti BBVA Kripto Launches Crypto Asset Trading Platform
Garanti BBVA Kripto enhanced the performance and security of its cryptocurrency asset trading platform by collaborating with Ripple…