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The biggest mistake merchants could make in agentic commerce may be waiting for one protocol to win. There probably won’t be one. The emerging infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven shopping is beginning to look less like the early browser wars and more like the internet stack itself...
A payment moving from one country to another passes through banks, clearing systems and payment networks that operate under different rules. The recipient information used to check the payment and bolster security can be just as fragmented. Payee verification connects some of those far-flung systems...
New York City’s Click-to-Cancel rule took effect Thursday (Oct. 1), making the city the first municipality in the country to implement such a rule, the Office of the Mayor said in a press release. The rule gives New York City new authority to crack down on businesses that make it difficult for consu...
A test drive at Cars24 lasts about an hour. Buyers raise loan worries, point out problems with the car and ask questions the salesperson may not answer well. Much of it used to go unnoticed. The Indian used-car retailer now records those conversations and uses voice AI from ElevenLabs to turn them i...
Illinois has reportedly agreed to postpone implementing a new tax on crypto transactions.
The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a ruling Tuesday (Sept. 29) that Ross Intelligence’s use of copyrighted material to train its legal artificial intelligence search engine was not fair use and affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to Thomson Reuters.
Fifth Third Bank has introduced a new offering aimed at startups and growth companies.
Cybersecurity firm Armadin says it has raised $255.5 million in new funding. The company’s Series B round, announced Thursday (Oct. 1), values Aramdin at more than $2.5 billion and will help it scale its agentic security platform, research, training and go-to-market efforts. “Seven months after emer...
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) has introduced a FRED MCP Connector that uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to simplify connecting FRED data with artificial intelligence systems, Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher J. Waller said Thursday (Oct. 1). In a speech delivered during FRED Co...
The retail landscape used to have four primary levers: share of shoppers, share of sellers, share of advertising dollars and share of wallet. However, artificial intelligence (AI) is creating the fifth and sixth levers: share of decision-making and share of intent infrastructure. Headlines this week...
DoorDash customers can now order dinner by sending a text. The company’s new artificial intelligence (AI) agent works inside Apple’s Messages, builds the cart and handles checkout without the DoorDash app ever opening. DoorDash unveiled the text-to-order agent on Wednesday (Sept. 30) and opened a wa...
Microsoft has launched three new artificial intelligence models that can be used to power customer service agents, multilingual assistants, interactive learning experiences and live captions and voice-driven interfaces, according to a Thursday (Oct. 1) blog post. “Together, they give developers more...
