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Mistral has introduced a system that enables enterprises to build artificial intelligence models that are trained on their proprietary knowledge rather than publicly available data.
Dubbed “Forge,” the system allows enterprises to train models on internal documentation, codebases, structured data and operational records so the models learn each enterprise’s vocabulary, reasoning...
New regulatory guidance on cryptocurrency has not been enough to lift bitcoin above $75,000.
That’s according to a report from Coindesk on Wednesday (March 18), one day after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued their first joint guidance on applying securities laws to crypto tokens.
The guidance from the two agencies...
Amazon’s status as the U.S. Postal Service’s biggest customer could be about to change.
The tech giant has begun to scale back the volume of packages it ships via the postal service (USPS) with the goal of reducing that number by at least two-thirds before its contract expires this fall, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday (March 17), citing sources familiar with the matter...
More than a year ago, I asked AI to help me buy a toaster. Not to browse. I knew exactly what I wanted, down to the brand, and I gave the LLM every advantage a real buyer could offer. I wanted to test whether I could find and buy without leaving the chat. The AI produced a thorough, well-documented list, albeit somewhat skimpy. None of the brands listed included the toaster I already knew I...
Microsoft is reportedly considering legal action over Amazon and OpenAI’s new cloud deal.
As the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (March 18), the issue hinges on whether Amazon Web Services (AWS) can offer OpenAI’s new Frontier commercial product without breaking an agreement requiring all access to OpenAI’s models to be run through Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.
That...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With One Inc’s Kevin Ostrander
The never-ending battle against payments fraud is entering a more complicated phase as artificial intelligence (AI) allows criminals to replicate human activity with unsettling accuracy.
Voices can be synthesized, identities can be fabricated from fragments of real data and automated programs increasingly behave like...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Velera’s Elizabeth Wadsworth
Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of financial fraud by giving criminals the ability to imitate voices, construct synthetic identities and reproduce the digital behavior of legitimate account holders.
For financial institutions, and especially for credit unions, that development is forcing a reassessment...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Paysafe’s Richard Swales
Aided by technology, fraudsters attempt to mimic legitimate users in ways that traditional authentication tools were never designed to detect.
As generative technologies evolve, payments providers are confronting a reality in which confirming that a customer is genuine requires more than reviewing documents or matching...
Healthcare costs are hitting the youngest adults hardest, turning even routine care into a budget decision for Americans who, on paper, should need the least medical attention.
That was the central takeaway from “Healthcare on Hold: Why 1 in 4 Gen Z Consumers Skip the Doctor,” the November Generational Pulse Report from PYMNTS Intelligence based on a survey of 2,368 consumers in the...
Meta Quest virtual reality (VR) headsets will no longer be able to access the Horizon Worlds app, and Horizon Worlds will no longer be available in VR, after June 15.
Meta announced these changes in a Tuesday (March 17) blog post, saying this is part of a change of focus for VR and Horizon that the company announced in February.
“We are separating the two platforms so each can grow...