Starting this week, Google is rolling out a slew of new travel features across its product line to keep users from defaulting to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to help with vacation planning as competition intensifies. Google has added new features for vacation planning to Search,...
NICE Actimize added agentic AI capabilities to X-Sight ActOne, the company’s platform for fraud and financial crime prevention. Available through X-Sight ActOne’s InvestigateAI, the agentic AI capabilities orchestrate all fraud and financial crime prevention workflows on one platform, automate processes and engage human oversight only...
The promise of artificial intelligence is a transformation of everyday life and business. However, there are practical considerations when it comes to delivering on the technology’s potential. AI models are expensive, and they don’t scale easily. Stax Payments Chief Technology Officer Mark Sundt told PYMNTS...
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup Manus has launched a mobile app, new features and a premium subscription plan beta test. Manus, which offers a general AI agent that went viral on X a few weeks ago, said in a Friday (March 28) post on X: “Three weeks ago we...
Retailers are embracing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) at an unprecedented rate, transforming how they analyze transactions, predict customer behavior and secure payments. The data is clear: Businesses that leverage the technology effectively are seeing measurable improvements in customer retention, forecasting accuracy and overall decision-making. Yet...
Instacart unveiled three new features that it said will increase the chances its customers will get the items they order. In the future, these features will also help Instacart’s partner retailers and brands get real-time information about whether products are on the shelves, the online...
Google unveiled its most powerful generative artificial intelligence model yet, one that opens a new front in the competitive AI race as it performs mostly head-and-shoulders above its staunchest rivals in industry benchmarks. Gemini 2.5, the latest from Google’s family of generative AI models with...
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has launched a five-year partnership with data/artificial intelligence (AI) firm Databricks. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (March 26), will bring Anthropic’s AI models and services to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, offering Anthropic’s Claude model to more than 1,000 companies. According...
When chief financial officers (CFOs) consider implementing agentic artificial intelligence (AI), they should treat it like other technologies their companies have adopted in the past, with some adjustments to mitigate specific risks that come with the new system. There’s a good reason for this approach:...
