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ThisBank Launches in the UK with Branchless Banking and Competitive Savings
New digital bank strives for a personal touch in banking services.Highlights: ThisBank launches branchless banking services in the UK.Focuses on competitive savings rates and customer satisfaction.Aims to combine technology...
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PayPal Boosts Agentic Commerce Offering Through Cymbio Acquisition
The acquisition enhances PayPal's capabilities in online retail integrations.Highlights: PayPal has acquired Cymbio to enhance its commerce offerings.Cymbio...
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OnePay Partners with Klarna to Enhance BNPL Options for Shoppers
New collaboration allows debit card purchases to be converted into loans.Highlights: OnePay partners with Klarna to offer BNPL...
FinTech
Noah and Picnic Launch USD-Native Payroll for Brazil’s Workforce
New partnership aims to streamline payment processes for global workers in Brazil.Highlights: Noah teams up with Picnic to...
FinTech
ThisBank Launches as UK’s Newest Branchless Bank, Promising Human Touch
The innovative bank aims to transform customer service with a personal approach.Highlights: ThisBank officially launched as the UK’s...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT app tops 500K downloads in just 6 days
Despite being U.S.- and iOS-only ahead of today’s expansion to 11 more global markets, OpenAI’s ChatGPT app has been off to a stellar start....
Arm launches new chips for faster smartphone performance during Computex
Arm CEO Rene Haas
Just ahead of CEO Rene Haas’ keynote at Computex in Taipei today, Arm launched two new products designed to increase smartphone...
Snowflake acquires Neeva to bring intelligent search to its cloud data management solution
Snowflake is all about managing data in the cloud, whether as part of a structured data warehouse, or less structured data lake. Neeva, a...
Sam Altman’s big European tour
Fresh from telling US lawmakers he’s a fan of regulation and laws are needed to mitigate the risks around artificial intelligence — and, indeed,...
Google to work with Europe on stop-gap ‘AI Pact’
Google’s Sundar Pichai has agreed to work with lawmakers in Europe on what’s being referred to as an “AI Pact” — seemingly a stop-gap...
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a bot
Something really scary is happening on the internet. It’s a horror story unfolding in front of us, in three simple acts.
Back in 1993, we...
Explaining Blockchain Capital’s Big Bet on an Eyeball-Scanning Orb
This week, Worldcoin, an outfit that aims to serve as proof of personhood in a world where it’s harder by the day to distinguish...
Google starts opening up access to its new generative AI capabilities in Search
Google announced today that it’s starting to open up access to new generative AI capabilities in Search after teasing them at its I/O event...
With new grant program, OpenAI aims to crowdsource AI regulation
OpenAI says it’s launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules...

