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Every day, millions of consumers feel their phones buzz with yet another spam call, a problem that continues to grow despite years of regulation and filtering tools. According to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Americans received 29.6 billion robocalls in 2025, showing how persistent and industrialized the issue has become. What appears as a random nuisance is increasingly powered by...
Within the corporate realm, treasury is expected to anticipate, allocate and act, turning liquidity into a managed input. That transition toward proactive management is forcing finance leaders to reconsider a longstanding assumption: that delays in payments are a tolerable feature of doing business.
Timing Problem, Not Balance Sheet Problem
The problem begins with idle cash, though the...
Galdera, a financial modeling startup founded by veterans of Klarna, is debuting with $1.7 million in pre-seed funding.
The company, whose name comes from the Basque word for “question,” announced its new funding last week, saying its experiences had shown that creating a quality financial model involves more than just projecting the next quarter’s earnings.
“Best-in-class modeling...
Goldman Sachs wants U.K. small businesses to embrace artificial intelligence.
The banking giant held a gathering last week in Birmingham to instruct small businesses on the dangers of ignoring AI, Bloomberg News reported Saturday (March 28).
“We have a situation where global behemoths are swallowing up small businesses or pushing them out,” said former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who...
Robotics startup Physical Intelligence is reportedly in talks on a $1 billion funding round.
That round would raise the company’s valuation to north of $11 billion, Bloomberg News reported Friday (March 27), citing sources familiar with the matter.
This deal would double the valuation of the startup, which is developing artificial intelligence models that perform a range of tasks.
To...
Anthropic’s artificial intelligence tool is reportedly enjoying record levels of popularity among consumers.
That’s according to a report Saturday (March 28) from TechCrunch, based on an examination of credit card transactions from about 28 million U.S. consumers, conducted for the publication by consumer transaction analysis company Indagari.
The findings show Anthropic’s Claude...
Apple is reportedly focused on hardware and services as its rivals pull ahead in artificial intelligence.
That’s according to Bloomberg News’ Mark Gurman, who made his case Sunday (March 29) in his regular newsletter about Apple.
Gurman contends that, unlike efforts to compete in places like music and TV, Apple has “effectively conceded the AI race” after getting caught off guard by...
Staffing levels at the SEC have declined nearly 20% since 2025, new government data shows.
That drop is due to attrition and the White House’s job-cutting efforts, according to a report on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released Friday (March 27) by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The report shows that the divisions seeing the largest losses were the ones...
Apple has picked a former Google executive to run its artificial intelligence marketing effort.
As Reuters reported Friday (March 27), Lilian Rincon, who had spent nine years with Google heading its shopping and assistant tools, will now serve as Apple’s vice president of product marketing for AI.
The report noted that Rincon’s hiring is happening as Apple prepares to introduce an...
In the payments and FinTech ecosystem, the concept of friction is usually discussed in the context of checkout flows, cross-border settlements or fragmented API integrations. But as any C-suite executive or private equity lead knows, friction isn’t just a digital metric, it is a physical and mental tax. When your home office becomes a graveyard for outdated pitch decks and your wardrobe starts to...