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Anthropic will not add advertising to its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Claude, the company said in a Wednesday (Feb. 4) blog post.
“We want Claude to act unambiguously in our users’ interests,” Anthropic said in the post. “So we’ve made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free. Our users won’t see ‘sponsored’ links adjacent to their conversations with Claude; nor will Claude’s...
Adding crypto into the finance stack has traditionally had the flair of a younger business.
On Tuesday (Feb. 3), the startup incubator Y Combinator (YC) codified that impression, announcing that its latest class of startups can now choose to receive their seed funding of $500,000 from YC in stablecoins.
“Whether crypto-focused or not, we expect many YC startups to use crypto in some...
Equifax used its cloud and artificial intelligence resources to help drive innovation and efficiencies across its operations in 2025, Equifax CEO Mark Begor said Wednesday (Feb. 4) during a fourth-quarter and full-year earnings call.
“In 2025, with 90% of our revenue in the new Equifax Cloud, we pivoted from building to leveraging the cloud and accelerating our use of AI in new...
Amazon is broadening the role of artificial intelligence (AI) across its business, rolling out a new generation of Alexa, exploring deeper access to OpenAI’s models and applying AI tools inside its film and television studios.
Alexa+ Reframes the Assistant as an Always-On AI Interface
Amazon this week began a nationwide rollout of Alexa+, a redesigned version of its voice assistant...
Resolve AI raised $125 million in a Series A funding round to scale its artificial intelligence (AI) agents that help engineers debug and run production, or software that is in use.
The round brings the company’s total funding to over $150 million and its valuation to $1 billion, Resolve AI Founder and CEO Spiros Xanthos said in a Wednesday (Feb. 4) blog post.
Resolve AI’s “AI for prod...
Software as a service once promised a steady rhythm of recurring subscriptions, predictable upgrades and incremental productivity gains.
That rhythm has been thrown off kilter as artificial intelligence begins to alter not just individual tasks but also the structure of business operations.
The core operational threat (at least from critics) for SaaS providers is not that AI will...
Artificial intelligence (AI) voice technology company ElevenLabs has closed a $500 million Series D funding round, boosting its valuation to approximately $11 billion, according to a Wednesday (Feb. 4) press release.
The funding round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and Iconiq Capital. Earlier last week, PYMNTS reported that the startup raised $...
The mobility landscape, as its name implies, is constantly moving.
And as Uber executives stressed to investors on the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday (Feb. 4), the mobility landscape is increasingly starting to move on its own.
On the heels of autonomous driving company Waymo’s $16 billion fundraise announced Monday (Feb. 2), which gave the Alphabet-owned startup a...
Mastercard launched a portfolio of fleet management solutions in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mastercard Fleet: Next Gen is designed for fleets of all sizes and brings together payments, data and controls, the company said in a Wednesday (Feb. 4) press release.
The portfolio provides global acceptance for fuel, electric vehicle charging, maintenance, tolling and ancillary fleet spend;...