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Botpress has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round to expand its platform for building and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) agents. [contact-form-7] The company will also use the new capital to expand its global customer support and scale its engineering and go-to-market teams, it said in a Monday (June 23) press release. “AI agents will replace entire categories of...
Cross-border payments FinTech Tensec raised $12 million in new funding. [contact-form-7] The financing will help the company provide payments and financial services for companies in the $190 trillion cross-border payments market, according to a Wednesday (June 18) press release. These companies will be able to access real-time payments and transaction banking services that have...
Apple is reportedly in eleventh-hour negotiations with European regulators about changes to its App Store. [contact-form-7] As the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday (June 23), the tech giant is hoping to escape a series of escalating fines from the European Union (EU) set to go into force this week.  Apple has already been fined 500 million euros for violating the EU’s Digital...
Walmart Deals will be offered online and in stores for the first time when the retailer holds its next event in July. [contact-form-7] The company announced in a Monday (June 23) press release that a six-day version of the Walmart summer savings event will take place July 8 through July 13, starting online at midnight and in stores at their local opening time. Members of the Walmart+...
Business travel and expense management solution provider Navan said Friday (June 20) that it confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed initial public offering (IPO). [contact-form-7] “The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined,”...
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant Klarna unveiled its latest unconventional innovation. [contact-form-7] It’s an artificial intelligence-powered hotline that lets customers speak directly to an AI version of co-founder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski. Anyone calling 1-424-667-5385 in the United States can groan or give accolades about their experience to — or just chitchat with —...
Decentralized finance company DeFi Development has launched a partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. [contact-form-7] This collaboration, announced Monday (June 23), will see DeFi Development (DFDV) team with Kraken to list the tokenized stock of its publicly traded equity on the Solana blockchain. “Through this partnership, DFDV joins the inaugural cohort of tokenized stocks...
Wealth management platform Wealthfront is reportedly the latest FinTech planning to go public. [contact-form-7] The company has filed confidentially for an initial public offering in the U.S., Bloomberg News reported Monday (June 23), though the number of shares in question and price range remain undetermined. The report noted that Wealthfront’s planned IPO follows its rival Chime,...
Goldman Sachs reportedly expanded the availability of its artificial intelligence assistant across the firm. [contact-form-7] About 10,000 employees were already using the GS AI Assistant before the company-wide launch, Reuters reported Monday (June 23), citing a company memo. The GS AI Assistant will help Goldman Sachs employees with tasks such as summarizing complex documents,...