Artificial Intelligence news and trends

Microsoft and C3 AI Expand Partnership to Promote Enterprise AI
artificial intelligence // November 19, 2024

Microsoft and enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) application software company C3 AI have expanded their strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of enterprise AI on the cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure. The companies first partnered in 2018 and they have delivered enterprise AI solutions at scale...

Google-Anthropic Partnership Gets UK Antitrust Regulator Approval
ANTITRUST // November 19, 2024

The UK’s competition watchdog has cleared Google’s partnership with Anthropic. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Tuesday (Nov. 19) that it had determined that the deal between the tech giant and the artificial intelligence (AI) startup did not warrant additional investigation. “The CMA does...

Walmart’s Growth Fueled by Expedited Deliveries and Resilient US Shoppers
Walmart // November 19, 2024

Consumers in the United States have shown resilience while prioritizing speed and convenience, according to Walmart’s third-quarter earnings call Tuesday (Nov. 19). The retail giant reported a 5.5% increase in consolidated revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2025, reaching $169.6 billion — fueled...

US Power Grid Bottlenecks Threaten AI Innovation, Experts Say
artificial intelligence // November 19, 2024

Nvidia’s push into overseas artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure highlights growing worries about America’s outdated power grid. The potential departure of AI investment spotlights a critical infrastructure challenge facing U.S. competitiveness: While foreign markets move quickly to build power systems for next-generation computing facilities, American utilities’...

Interviews & Exclusives
Robots and AI Are Rebuilding the Supply Chain From Ground Up

November 19, 2024
Distribution yards, the critical junctions between warehouse facilities and over-the-road (OTR) transportation, have long stood as bottlenecks in supply chain operations. Each day, millions of trailers and containers pass through these yards — where trucks are loaded, unloaded, and dispatched — with inefficiencies that impact the entire logistics network. Historically, this labor-intensive work has relied […]

AI Makes Impact in Supplier Enablement and Predictive Analytics

November 19, 2024
Embedding AP payment solutions eliminates the friction points that have plagued B2B payments, Finexio Chief Strategy Officer Chris Wyatt writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “The New Value Equation: 11...

Why the Customer Experience Should Drive Fraud Prevention Strategies

November 18, 2024
A solid fraud prevention strategy includes reducing false positives and ensuring an improved customer experience, Featurespace founder Dave Excell writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “The New Value Equation: 11...

78% of CFOs Plan to Increase GenAI Investments Despite Limited ROI

November 15, 2024
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has become an important tool for CFOs, who view the technology as critical to their organization’s strategic and operational planning. According to a PYMNTS Intelligence report,...

Quick Reads
US Patent Office Bans In-House GenAI Use

November 19, 2024
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reportedly banned staff from using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The ban has been in place since last April, with the patent office citing security concerns along with the tendency of some tools to display “bias, unpredictability and malicious behavior,” Wired reported Tuesday (Nov. 19), citing an internal memo. […]

Microsoft and C3 AI Expand Partnership to Promote Enterprise AI

November 19, 2024
Microsoft and enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) application software company C3 AI have expanded their strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of enterprise AI on the cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure....

Google-Anthropic Partnership Gets UK Antitrust Regulator Approval

November 19, 2024
The UK’s competition watchdog has cleared Google’s partnership with Anthropic. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Tuesday (Nov. 19) that it had determined that the deal between the tech...

China Turns to Silicon Valley to Bolster Homegrown AI Firms

November 19, 2024
Chinese tech giants are reportedly using Silicon Valley to recruit for their AI projects. Companies such as ByteDance and Alibaba have recently begun expanding their offices in California as they...