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Blockchain infrastructure company NEAR has introduced a super app designed to help users operate their financial life on blockchains. “NEAR Protocol Co-founder [Illia Polosukhin] just unveiled near.com on stage: a super-app on crypto rails, powered by NEAR Intents. Now live,” the company said in a Monday (Feb. 23) post on X. “Swap across 35+ chains. Go confidential. Trade P2P. All from...
The companies participating in OpenAI’s tests of ads in ChatGPT include Target, Adobe, Williams-Sonoma and Albertsons. OpenAI said on Feb. 9 that it had begun testing ads in ChatGPT in the United States for logged-in adult users on the chatbot’s Free and Go subscription plans. The company had said on Jan. 16 that it planned to introduce ads to the ChatGPT experience. Target said on Feb...
JPMorgan Chase’s latest company update, on Monday (Feb. 23)  underscored that the firm’s technology agenda now extends well beyond internal productivity initiatives. Across the presentation and the question-and-answer session, executives consistently positioned artificial intelligence as a central component of competitive strategy, client engagement, with a long-term investment horizon...
Amazon will invest $12 billion in data center campuses in Louisiana that will support its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies, the company said in a Monday (Feb. 23) press release. The company will fully fund the infrastructure needed to power its operations. That includes working with a local utility to ensure Amazon covers all the expenses for new energy...
PayPal Holdings has met with banks at a time when it is seeing unsolicited interest from would-be buyers, Bloomberg reported Monday (Feb. 23), citing unnamed sources. The company is drawing takeover interest after its shares slid about 46% over the past year, according to the report. At least one large company is considering buying the whole company, while others are looking at select...
As another blizzard sweeps across the Northeast, grounding flights and snarling itineraries, the travel industry is confronting a different kind of storm: the rise of artificial intelligence agents and the infrastructure needed to power them. Model Context Protocol is emerging as a coordination layer for agentic AI in travel at a moment when the industry is already experimenting with...
For banks, broker-dealers, and clearing firms, the primary obstacle to engaging with crypto has rarely been philosophical skepticism. It has instead been the 800-pound-gorilla in the room made up of the balance-sheet frictions digital assets bring with them, and the many regulatory pitfalls still surrounding the crypto industry particularly in the U.S. But U.S. Securities and Exchange...
The New York State Department of Financial Services has published and opened for comment proposed regulations for buy now, pay later (BNPL) financing options. The draft regulations for BNPL lenders were posted Monday (Feb. 23) and will be open for preproposal comment until March 5, according to the DFS website. After that, when the proposed regulation is published in the State Register...
Anthropic said Monday (Feb. 23) that the Chinese artificial intelligence labs DeepSeek, MiniMax and Moonshot AI have illicitly used the outputs of its AI model Claude to train their own models. The firms used a technique called “distillation,” in which the outputs of a strong model are used to train a less capable one. When competitors use this technique illicitly, they can acquire...
Nvidia is collaborating with several companies to bring accelerated computing and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity systems in the energy, manufacturing, transportation and utilities sectors. These operational technology (OT) environments and industrial control systems (ICS) are adopting enterprise networks and the cloud, which increases their exposure to cyberthreats, the...