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Google’s Gemini app now allows users to tell it to remember or to forget past chats.
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The company began rolling out these features for the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant today and will continue to do so over the coming weeks, it said in a Wednesday (Aug. 13) blog post.
“Today we’re updating the Gemini app so it becomes an even more personal, proactive and...
Anthropic has expanded the size its prompt window for Claude Sonnet 4 to accommodate one million tokens, or roughly 750,000 words.
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That’s up five-fold from prior limits. This larger context window can be accessed directly from Anthropic through its application programming interface (API) or Amazon Bedrock.
The extended context window allows Claude to process far larger...
Beyond consumer spending trends and tariffs, earnings season also has shed light on how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the financial services landscape, with both established banks and FinTech platforms leveraging advanced algorithms to fine-tune and fortify their operation. The companies featured below are by no means exhaustive, but offer a sampling of AI’s diverse applications...
Riskified and HUMAN Security have partnered to help merchants prevent fraud and abuse when dealing with artificial intelligence (AI) shopping agents.
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This collaboration brings together HUMAN Security’s HUMAN Sightline featuring AgenticTrust and Riskified’s eCommerce risk management expertise, the companies said in a Wednesday (Aug. 13) press release.
The new tools...
Affirm is launching two integrations aimed at expanding its buy now, pay later (BNPL) options across both online and in-person retail, deepening its ties with Google and Stripe.
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On Tuesday (Aug. 12), the San Francisco-based payments company said U.S. shoppers using Google Chrome’s desktop browser can now select Affirm directly from the browser’s autofill menu at...
Casual dining restaurant owner Brinker International said Wednesday (Aug. 13) that advertising brought more diners into its Chili’s restaurants during the quarter ended June 25, while operational improvements kept them coming back.
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Brinker International, which owns Chili’s and Maggiano’s, saw year-over-year comparable sales for the quarter at Chili’s increase by 23.7%,...
This week, 31 years ago, a man in Philadelphia bought a Sting CD with his credit card over the internet.
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He inadvertently created eCommerce. That transaction, conducted on Aug. 11, 1994, via NetMarket, took place during a point in history when dial-up modems squealed, and websites looked like digital bulletin boards.
Three decades later, and online shopping is no mere...
The lowly spreadsheet is getting an agentic AI upgrade.
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Fundamental Research Labs, an artificial intelligence startup launched out of MIT, has created Shortcut, a system of AI agents that can do multi-step work on Excel, such as creating discounted cash flow models in finance.
The user writes a prompt in natural language and uploads documents for the AI agents to “read...
Tech startups are reportedly hiring more software engineers and other positions related to research and development (R...