Artificial Intelligence

October 29, 2025 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Go in Brazil, a subscription plan intended to give consumers improved access to ChatGPT’s more advanced capabilities with a better package when compared to ChatGPT Plus. The version is said to be a lower-cost alternative between the standard and Plus versions and… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 9:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Square, the fund operations partner to private markets GPs, announced a collaboration with BlackRock Aladdin to integrate Preqin data into its AI CRM for Investor Relations. This should allow GPs to pull key Preqin data, a source of private markets data, into Juniper Square’s… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 11:27 am By JD Alois  |  

The world of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continues to expand at a rapid pace. Today, investors can trade in a plethora of strategies, including active and passive offerings. With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and the rapid rise of this sector, investors have rushed to… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AI and stablecoins have kept the enterprise Fintech sector on track in Q3 2025, according to an update from PitchBook. The research report noted that Fintech is enabling AI to literally pay for itself. Led by payments firms, enterprise fintech companies raised $6 billion across… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Last night, Elon Musk revealed that his solution to Wikipedia, Grokipedia version 0.1, is now live. Musk has criticized the information on Wikipedia for years, calling it unbalanced. Musk said even this first version of Grokipedia was superior to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has been challenged for… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Natural, a fintech company building the infrastructure powering agentic payments, announced its emergence from stealth, driven by a $9.8 million seed round. Co-led by Abstract and Human Capital, the round was also supported by Forerunner Ventures, Terrain, Restive Ventures, Genius Ventures, and a coalition of… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 2:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG noted that the overall sentiment in German boardrooms continues to get worse: around 72 percent of CEOs in the leading European economy still expect growth for their firm in the next 3 years – which is a low compared to 77 percent reported in… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 12:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

CipherOwl, founded by the team that built Coinbase’s on-chain data and compliance platform, this week announced $15 million in seed financing co-led by General Catalyst and Flourish Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Sancus Ventures, Enlight Capital, OKX Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Road Capital and Predictive VC. The company is emerging from stealth with an AI-native… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 4:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Gradient Labs, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that targets conversational engagements for finance, is looking to expand its services into the US following “explosive” growth in Europe. Based in the UK, Gradient Labs was co-founded by Dimitri Masin, Neal Lathia, and Danai Antoniou. Each of… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 3:47 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

PayNearMe has introduced its AI-powered Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) as part of its strategy to advance and modernize customer engagement for non-commerce businesses. Fully integrated into the PayXM platform, Intelligent Virtual Agent extends PayNearMe’s vision of Payment Experience Management by enabling organizations to automate and personalize inbound and… Read More

October 26, 2025 @ 9:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking industry profit margins are potentially facing a significant $170 billion hit from the rise of AI, according a report from McKinsey. And failure to adapt to consumers’ growing usage of artificial intelligence may lead to banks losing billions of dollars in earnings, the report… Read More

October 26, 2025 @ 9:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Data’s AI research division, QVAC, released what it claims is the largest synthetic dataset created for artificial intelligence training under a new initiative called QVAC Genesis. This initial release, Genesis I, a collection of 41 billion text tokens, is meant to help the world… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 8:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Generative artificial intelligence is now said to be reshaping the financial sector, emerging as a sophisticated tool in transforming how credit risk is being assessed. This, according to a report from OliverWyman which also noted that by moving further beyond traditional linear models, generative AI… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 3:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The majority or 84% of workers are eager to adopt agentic AI in their current role, however, most or 56% are concerned about their own job security working alongside AI agents, highlighting a seemingly urgent “disconnect.” Employees are prepared and keen to leverage agentic AI,… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 2:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

UnifyApps this week announced a $50 million Series B led by WestBridge Capital with participation from ICONIQ and others. The new capital brings UnifyApps’ total funding to $81 million and marks a new phase of scale with Ragy Thomas joining as chairman and co-CEO, alongside… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

May Mobility, Inc., an autonomous vehicle tech firm, and Grab Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: GRAB), Southeast Asia’s superapp, announced their partnership with intentions to introduce autonomous vehicle services in Southeast Asia. This latest partnership reportedly includes an investment by Grab into May Mobility, backing the AV… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 11:26 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

lemlist, a sales engagement platform, has acquired AI platform Claap. Claap, valued between $15 million and $30 million, transforms every sales conversation into actionable insights and context-aware AI agents. With the self-funded acquisition, lemlist will now provide sales teams with AI-generated actionable insights based on… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 8:31 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Epiminds, founded by Swedish entrepreneurs Elias Malm and Mo Elkhidir, has announced its public launch from stealth alongside $6.6 million in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from EWOR, Entourage, and angels, including the former CMO of Booking.com. In 12 weeks from ideation,… Read More

October 23, 2025 @ 6:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has recently announced an expansion of its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver transformative digital services to public sector, defense and national security organizations. Via the Accenture AWS Business Group, the firms will now collaborate to create solutions that use… Read More

October 23, 2025 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Every business-related decision is ultimately a spend decision, according to an update from Zip. If we look more closely at spend, then we can get a snapshot of what matters most: the priorities, risks, as well as strategies that could shape the future. Zip’s ‘State… Read More