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Experian Launches Credit Score App in ChatGPT, Enhancing Financial Access
New tool enables users to check credit scores effortlessly via ChatGPT.Highlights: Experian's app allows users to check credit scores through ChatGPT.Users access personalized credit insights and tips.The launch aims...
FinTech
US Senate Passes Bill Banning Issuance of CBDCs
Legislation aims to restrict the development of digital currencies by the Federal Reserve.Highlights: The US Senate approved a...
FinTech
Truist Expands Open Banking Offerings with Plaid Partnership
Collaboration aims to enhance customer access to financial services.Highlights: Truist collaborates with Plaid for open banking expansion.The partnership...
FinTech
UK’s National Fraud Database Reports 444,000 Fraud Cases in 2025
Cifas reveals a significant rise in reported fraud incidents across the UK.Highlights: Cifas reported 444,000 fraud cases in...
FinTech
Zelle and BofA Accelerate Charitable Disbursements
New partnership aims to streamline donations through Zelle's platform.Highlights: Zelle partners with Bank of America for charitable donations.New...
Google’s latest art project recruits an animated bird — and AI — to play the cello
Google might be laser-focused on generative AI these days, like the majority of its Big Tech competitors, but that hasn’t stopped the search giant...
US accounting fintech Jirav raises $20m Series B funding
Seattle-based financial planning and analysis platform Jirav has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Cota Capital. The funding will...
We’re in the pruning phase of tech layoffs
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
It’s time to...
FTC reportedly looking into OpenAI over ‘reputational harm’ caused by ChatGPT
The FTC is reportedly in at least the exploratory phase of investigating OpenAI over whether the company’s flagship ChatGPT conversational AI made “false, misleading,...
Adobe says Firefly has now generated 1B images, takes it global
Adobe today announced that its Firefly web service is now available globally with support for text prompts in 100 languages — including Klingon (both...
Checkout.com launches AI-led ID verification solution
Checkout.com, a global payment solutions provider, has launched its AI-led ID verification solution. The solution leverages artificial intelligence and is capable of identifying and...
Create context and provide examples to lower AI adoption barriers
Jeremiah Stone
Contributor
Every company needs to be thinking about how to make artificial intelligence (AI) a seamless extension of its team. How often has an...
Anthropic releases Claude 2, its second-gen AI chatbot
Anthropic, the AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI execs, today announced the release of a new text-generating AI model, Claude 2.
The successor to Anthropic’s first...
Elon Musk wants to build AI to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’
Elon Musk, Twitter’s not-so-benevolent CEO, today announced the launch of a new organization, xAI, to “understand the true nature of the universe.”
Ambitious? A little....

