AI & ML

Ramp's reported $1B raise at a $60B valuation caps a week of nine-figure fintech rounds spanning payments, wealthtech and cross-sector VC.

A Fresno BPO outfit says MD-level billers cut denial rates below 3%, as US practices carry growing regulatory staffing overhead.

G2A.COM chief growth officer Paweł Wróbel on the AI support assistant that resolved 14,400 seller cases in 63 days, and why a wrong answer is worse than none.

Futures trader Amir Naser Hojati argues that when an AI agent analyses, recommends and executes in one step, firms must decide in advance who owns the trade.

Sokin chief financial officer Tom Steer on why a private company disclosed its numbers, what an AI agent needs from regulated rails, and the risks to $120m.

Experian's new AI decisioning engine blends real-time cash flow and credit data, widening access for borrowers missed by traditional underwriting.

Ant International rolls out its open agentic payment protocol to 17 partners, while Mastercard and Visa join a shared agent-identity framework.

Ripple's GSmart expansion puts policy-cited AI agents into treasury workflows, targeting the governance gap slowing enterprise adoption.

P101-led funding and a bolt-on acquisition target Italy's fragmented food-compliance market, where digitisation sits at just 3%.

Sidetrade's SAFE framework runs agentic finance AI entirely on owned GPUs and data centres, targeting a 30–35% EBITDA margin by 2030.

A frontier research platform backs a UK GPS-denied tracking scale-up, merging AI-driven intelligence with sovereign defence asset management.

Talkdesk's AI automation platform is now purchasable via Microsoft Azure spend commitments, cutting procurement friction for enterprise CIOs.

The outsourcing firm's 15% revenue surge and Sierra AI partnership signal a structural shift in how enterprises buy customer experience services.

The fintech's new commercial president will accelerate its pivot from back-office data into front-office agentic AI for institutional investors.

Orion's Advisor Trading expansion decentralises portfolio execution, reflecting the wealthtech sector's shift toward autonomous, AI-assisted advisory workflows.

ZincFive's in-house battery management system targets the high-frequency power demands of AI training infrastructure with built-in OT cybersecurity.

Mastercard's new Agent Connect platform positions the payments giant as the trust layer for AI-driven retail, connecting merchants, agents and payment providers.

OKX AI's pay-per-task marketplace lets autonomous agents hire each other, pointing toward agentic micro-economies beyond human-directed software.

A $100M Series C backs Savvy's bet that AI can give independent advisors institutional scale without surrendering ownership.

Ataccama's open-source converter embeds live data quality signals into the Apache Ossie semantic standard, letting AI agents verify data before acting.