Artificial Intelligence

Agent IQ Integrates IDScan.net’s Identity Verification Technology

Agent IQ, a provider of AI-powered relationship banking, has integrated  IDScan.net’s Digital Identity Verification (DIVE) technology into its Lynq platform. Sophisticated criminals exploit vulnerable one-time passcodes through phishing and SIM swap attacks, while rigid security measures damage the personal relationships these institutions depend on for… Read More

Inbox Revenue Agent EVE Raises $2M Pre-Seed

EVE, an inbox revenue engine for B2B small businesses, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Firsthand.VC, with participation from a16z’s Scout Fund, Acquisition.com Ventures, Geek Ventures, Founders Future, Punch Capital, Silicon Gardens and prominent angels, including co-founders of Slack and Hugging Face,… Read More

Bain & Co Report Details How Agentic AI Will Transform E-Commerce

Agentic AI is poised to reshape the way consumers shop online, making agentic commerce strategies critical for retailers, Bain & Company finds in a new report Agentic AI in Retail: How Autonomous Shopping Is Redefining the Customer Journey. But while shoppers increasingly use Generative AI, around… Read More

Shutdown, IRS, Stablecoins and More: Web3 Thoughts of the Week

Washington DC Capitol At Night Red Light

Government action, including the shutdown and a welcome IRS decision, along with market analysis and stablecoin talk, dominated Web3 minds this week. Growing Ethereum stablecoin volume a good sign “While we continue to see some negative sentiment around ETH due to its decline from nearly… Read More

Regtech Trulioo Enhances KYB Solution with Credit Decisioning to Enable Risk Insights

Trulioo, an identity platform claiming global coverage for person and business verification, announced the launch of Trulioo credit decisioning, which is described as a capability that delivers financial, credit, and risk insights via the Trulioo identity platform. The roll-out follows a 102% YoY surge in… Read More

Tether Enables AI Solutions, Driven by Rumble–Northern Data Alliance and GPU Network

Tether, which claims to be one of the largest companies in the digital asset ecosystem, is taking a step forward to advance open, freedom-first AI and cloud services. Tether has signed an agreement to lease a share of a 20,000+ GPU network to power its… Read More

Quantexa AI Capabilities Enable Enterprises with Contextual Intelligence Required to Deploy Agentic AI

Quantexa, a global enabler of Decision Intelligence, unveiled Quantexa AI, the so-called next evolution of its Decision Intelligence Platform, now agentic ready. As organizations increase their use of large language models and smaller, purpose-built and domain-trained models, many are discovering a common limitation: when AI… Read More

USA Dominates Artificial Intelligence (AI) Start Up Funding, Europe Will Suffer Due to Lack of Access to Capital for Early Stage AI Firms

The artificial intelligence (AI) sector is red hot. Sure, some are predicting a bubble, but this is no dot.com bomb from the 2000s. The technology is real, and expectations are that just about every business will benefit from AI. This is a multi-decade transition to… Read More

Hexaware Technologies Extends Google Cloud Collab with New Insurance Solutions

Hexaware Technologies (NSE: HEXT), an international provider of IT solutions and services, announced the launch of new insurance solutions developed exclusively for Google Cloud. The offerings strengthen Hexaware’s collaboration with Google and reflect a focus on accelerating digital transformation via automation, AI, and scalable cloud-native… Read More

Treasury Managers Now Operating at Interface of Financial Stability and Digital Tech Advancements : Research

KPMG noted recently that treasury managers currently tend to operate at the interface of financial stability, digital tech advancements and strategic corporate management. KPMG pointed out that as a result of this, they typically have to deal with a range of challenges, such as the… Read More

Accenture, Apptio Partner with PPL to Leverage Technology Spending Insights

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Apptio are working cooperatively with PPL Corporation, a U.S. energy firm offering electricity and natural gas to more than 3.6 million customers in the U.S., in order to transform how the company prioritizes and manages technology spending—all in support of “delivering… Read More

Lloyds Banking Group Introduces AI Enabled Financial Management Tool

Lloyds Banking Group will launch the UK’s first large-scale, multi-feature AI-powered financial assistant, set to transform the way over 21 million customers manage their money through the mobile app. This launch is a key milestone in Lloyds Banking Group’s journey to embed AI as a… Read More

ICYMI: Yale Study Says No AI Driven Job Loss Yet

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In case you missed it, a study about artificial intelligence (AI) and job losses has been circulating— especially as the US economy starts to wilt a bit more. While some observers claim that much or some of the decline in jobs is being driven by… Read More

AI enabled Fraud Is Evolving Steadily : UK Finance

UK Finance noted that when we imagine the future of fraud, it can be quite easy to picture Hollywood-type chaos: sophisticated deepfake heists, so-called AI super-hackers, and trust in digital payments crumbling in spectacular fashion. However, UK Finance pointed out in a blog post that… Read More

Europe Now Seeking Greater AI Sovereignty, Report Claims

A study by Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has revealed that European organizations are placing more emphasis on maintaining control over their data and existing infrastructure which is on track to accelerate the overall demand for sovereign AI. Sovereign AI refers to the ability of a nation… Read More

AI Infrastructure Buildout Not Over, Legal AI Firms Securing New Funding : Research

CB Insights noted in a report that October’s record funding indicates that the AI infrastructure buildout remains far from over, with OpenAI’s $22.5B raise accounting for about half of the month’s total.  However, CB Insights also pointed out that unlike September’s relatively more concentrated focus… Read More

Venture Capital Deal Value in Supply Chain Tech Surges as AI Spurs Investor Confidence, Report Claims

Venture capital deal value in supply chain technology has now climbed by 26.1% as AI spurs investor confidence, according to an update from PitchBook. After several fairly sluggish quarters, venture capital is now said to be flowing back into high-potential supply chain technology. PitchBook further… Read More

Oscilar to Power MoneyGram Risk Infrastructure

MoneyGram, a global payments network for consumers, businesses and communities, has launched a strategic partnership with Oscilar, an AI risk decisioning platform, to power its risk infrastructure. The collaboration advances MoneyGram’s AI-first strategy, delivering real-time risk intelligence across its global network. MoneyGram operates one of the world’s largest… Read More

AI to Fuel Job Cuts, Financial Services May See Biggest Change

Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be ubiquitous in the corporate sector today. While many anticipate AI will drive job losses, others see a productivity boost that will enable human capital to be focused on new endeavors. Citing research from The Chartered Institute for Personnel and… Read More

Billtrust Launches Agentic Collections Tool

Billtrust, a provider of B2B accounts receivable workflow and payment software, this week announced the launch of Collections Agentic Procedures, a capability within its Collections solution. Collections Agentic Procedures replaces static playbooks with adaptive methods that learn from every customer interaction and recommend the most… Read More

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