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Starling Bank Strengthens Services with Agentic AI Money Manager
The new feature aims to enhance personal finance management for customers.Highlights: Starling Bank introduces an AI-powered money manager.Agentic feature aims to enhance customer financial management.Users can receive personalized financial...
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IG Group Considers Switching Listing from London to New York
The financial services firm explores a potential move to enhance visibility.Highlights: IG Group is weighing a move from...
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Huawei and Yowpay Launch Open Banking Smartwatch POS App
Innovative app combines open banking with smartwatch technology for payments.Highlights: Huawei partners with Yowpay to introduce a smartwatch...
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UK Banks Reject Opportunity to Lift £100 Contactless Limit
Major UK banks choose not to increase contactless payment thresholds.Highlights: UK banks will not raise the £100 contactless...
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Crypto.com Cuts 12% of Workforce Amid AI Shift
The company streamlines operations in response to evolving market dynamics.Highlights: Crypto.com reduces workforce by 12%Focus shifts to AI...
The demands of regulated industries helped this startup raise $8M for its conversational AI approach
As conversational AI begins to take over the world, chatbots are being given a new lease on life. However, there are clear hazards on...
EU wants to upgrade its supercomputers to support generative AI startups
European Union lawmakers scrambling for the bloc to be a contender in the generative AI race are presenting a package of support measures aimed...
TextQL aims to add AI-powered intelligence on top of business data
Mark Hay and Ethan Ding want to make every corporate decision a data-driven one. Ambitious? For certain. But the two engineers, who met a...
Arcee is a secure, enterprise-focused platform for building GenAI
While working at Hugging Face, engineers Mark McQuade and Brian Benedict ran into challenges helping enterprise customers adopt GenAI. Some companies didn’t want to...
Turn headwinds into opportunity in 2024
Danny Rimer is an investor and partner at Index Ventures.
The founders I work with know I think about John Coltrane a lot. Lately,...
New MIT CSAIL study suggests that AI won’t steal as many jobs as expected
Will AI automate human jobs, and — if so — which jobs and when?
That’s the trio of questions a new research study from MIT’s...
Open source vector database startup Qdrant raises $28M
Qdrant, the company behind the eponymous open source vector database, has raised $28 million in a Series A round of funding led by Spark...
BMW will deploy Figure’s humanoid robot at South Carolina plant
Figure today announced a “commercial agreement” that will bring its first humanoid robot to a BMW manufacturing facility in South Carolina. The Spartanburg plant...
Six rules to get the most out of fitness & wellness tracking
Self quantification is the trend that just keeps on going. There’s an ever-expanding world of wellness wearables and fitness trackers targeting consumers with shiny...

