Tagged: ai

June 16, 2024 @ 3:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In Argentina, Worldcoin contributors have been working hard to increase access to important AI tools like World ID, a private digital passport that differentiates humans from bots online. Now, the project is poised to grow in Argentina, “resulting in significant direct investment in the country.”… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 9:21 am By Michael Wong  |  

AccountsIQ, a cloud-based accounting platform, has raised €60 million (about $64 million) in a Series C funding round anchored by business-to-business (B2B) software-as-a-service (SaaS) growth equity fund Axiom Equity. The investment is set to bolster AccountsIQ’s product development, enabling the firm to integrate advancements in… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Remote working Fintech Deel has introduced a new AI tool for enhancing various tasks. Deel says that this Ai tool helps with double-checking compliance rules. It assists with digging into your global workforce data, and then “making smarter business decisions faster using AI.” As explained… Read More

June 12, 2024 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mistral AI is announcing €600M in Series B funding for their first year of operations. Mistral AI said the funding from the investment round will accelerate its roadmap as it continues to bring frontier AI into everyone’s hands. The company is developing various generative AI… Read More

June 11, 2024 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has partnered with Sainsbury’s PLC which will see its payment methods available at the online checkouts of three iconic brands: Argos, Habitat and TU. Shoppers will be able to choose “from Klarna’s three interest free payments;… Read More

June 11, 2024 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest is announcing the launch of Cora+, an upgrade to its digital assistant, Cora, developed in collaboration with IBM. NatWest is to introduce the new version of Cora during London Tech Week and will “be one the first banks in the UK to deploy generative… Read More

June 11, 2024 @ 6:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Conversational AI provider boost.ai announced Credit Union of Colorado and Desert Financial Credit Union (DFCU) as new customers alongside a partnership with Pindrop, industry participants focused on voice security solutions. The news reinforces the company’s continued growth in “the US market, following its recent launch… Read More

June 10, 2024 @ 4:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Quantexa, the global enabler of Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors announced that it is partnering with Databricks, the data and artificial intelligence (AI) company, to enable customers “to deploy its Decision Intelligence Platform and Data Management, Customer Intelligence, Risk Management,… Read More

June 4, 2024 @ 9:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), conducted in partnership with YouGov, reveals 59 per cent of SMEs have invested or plan “to invest in AI in the next five years (25 per cent and 34 per cent respectively), with younger business leaders owners more… Read More

June 2, 2024 @ 1:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Billtrust, a B2B order-to-cash and digital payments market leader, announced new AI functionality within its accounts receivable software platform to empower finance professionals to better understand their business, make strategic decisions and engage customers more effectively. Billtrust has introduced a new generative AI tool, Billtrust… Read More

May 31, 2024 @ 4:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Oscilar, a provider of AI-driven risk management solutions, and Socure, the provider of artificial intelligence for digital identity verification, sanction screening, and fraud prevention, announced a partnership that will aim to set “a new standard in digital identity verification, fraud prevention and risk management for… Read More

May 28, 2024 @ 12:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sectors more exposed to AI are experiencing almost five times (4.8x) higher growth in labor productivity, according to PwC’s 2024 Global AI Jobs Barometer, released recently. The report, which analyzed “over half a billion job ads from 15 countries, suggests that AI could allow many… Read More

May 26, 2024 @ 4:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zillow (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) is releasing its open-source Fair Housing Classifier, which establishes guardrails to promote responsible and unbiased behavior in real estate conversations powered by large language model (LLM) technology. The Fair Housing Classifier acts as “a protective measure, to encourage more equitable… Read More

May 23, 2024 @ 12:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FairPlay, a Fairness-as-a-Service company, announced a customer relationship with Chime, a financial technology platform founded on the belief that everyday people deserve access to helpful, transparent and fair banking services to unlock financial progress. Chime will implement FairPlay’s solutions in “the underwriting models powering the… Read More

May 23, 2024 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After years at the forefront of projects and research based on artificial intelligence (AI), BBVA takes a “decisive step” in the use of generative AI in its main markets. On the one hand, it has prioritized “around 100 projects that will be developed with different… Read More

May 22, 2024 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Council has now approved a law aiming to harmonise rules on artificial intelligence, the so-called artificial intelligence act. The flagship legislation follows a ‘risk-based’ approach, which means “the higher the risk to cause harm to society, the stricter the rules.” It is the… Read More

May 21, 2024 @ 8:44 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A replacement of Factris’ FAB (Finance Automation for Business) platform has been released simultaneously across all five of Factris’ markets. These are Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania. Improvements include offering more types of financing, faster approval, direct control of accounts, and easier access to funds thanks to the platform’s… Read More

May 19, 2024 @ 11:35 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Pagos, a provider of payments optimization solutions, recently announced the launch of Pagos Copilot, an AI-powered tool for instant payment intelligence. “It’s easy for subpar performance to go unnoticed when you don’t have a wealth of payments industry knowledge because you don’t necessarily know what… Read More

May 16, 2024 @ 6:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Applied research from the Worldcoin Foundation and TACEO, a team of cryptography engineers, has advanced the biometric template protection and enabled the secure deletion of Worldcoin’s previous iris code system. Working within a field of cryptography “known as secure multi-party computation (SMPC), Worldcoin and TACEO… Read More

May 16, 2024 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Generative AI is becoming increasingly relevant for German companies: More than half of the companies (53 per cent) are planning to significantly expand their investment activities, according to an update from KPMG. More than half of these companies even want “to increase their investments by… Read More