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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 specializes in streamlining online retail integrations.The move aims to improve PayPal's...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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SMBC Winds Down Digital US Bank Jenius, Impacting Customers
The closure illustrates the challenges facing digital banks in the US.Highlights: SMBC announces the closure of its US...
AI2 is developing a large language model optimized for science
PaLM 2. GPT-4. The list of text-generating AI practically grows by the day.
Most of these models are walled behind APIs, making it impossible for...
US tech policy must keep pace with AI innovation
Rudina Seseri
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Rudina Seseri is founder and managing partner at Glasswing Ventures, where he leads the firm’s investments in artificial intelligence (AI) enabled enterprise software...
Hands on with Google’s AI-powered music generator
Can AI work backward from a text description to generate a coherent song? That’s the premise of MusicLM, the AI-powered music creation tool Google...
‘AI-powered’ VC firm Vela emerges from stealth with $25M under management
Six years ago, Yiğit Ihlamur, a former senior program manager at Google, observed that AI was surpassing human capabilities in certain areas — at...
Anthropic’s latest model can take ‘The Great Gatsby’ as input
Historically and even today, poor memory has been an impediment to the usefulness of text-generating AI. As a recent piece in The Atlantic aptly...
EU lawmakers back transparency and safety rules for generative AI
In a series of votes in the European Parliament this morning MEPs have backed a raft of amendments to the bloc’s draft AI legislation...
The debate happening inside of every VC firm
Precursor’s Charles Hudson wants to be cautious but not too cautious. The venture capitalist was at an AI confab last month, but he has...
AMP Robotics attracts investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund
AMP Robotics, a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round...
Google’s Magic Compose can rewrite your texts using AI
Google today introduced a new feature that combines Android’s guided customization with its advances in generative AI to help people compose more personal messages....

