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At CES 2026 this week, automakers and suppliers showed vehicles designed with the assumption that humans will not always be driving, shifting attention from driver-assist features toward software that increasingly manages control inside the car.
All these design choices are already being locked into vehicles scheduled for release over the next several years, making software-led control...
Anthropic reportedly aims to raise $10 billion in a funding round that is separate from a partnership in which Nvidia and Microsoft have pledged to invest a combined total of $15 billion in the artificial intelligence (AI) startup.
The new funding round would value Anthropic at $350 billion, which is nearly double the valuation it achieved in a September 2025 round, the Wall Street...
Consumer payments platform Zilch plans to acquire Fjord Bank to gain a European banking license that will enable Zilch to accelerate its expansion across Europe.
The transaction is expected to close in the second half, subject to regulatory approvals, the companies said in a Wednesday (Jan. 7) press release.
Fjord Bank is based in Lithuania, has about $120 million in total assets, and...
Payment technology firm Modulr is launching in the United States in partnership with FIS.
This collaboration marks Modulr’s first step in bringing its real-time, API-first payment capability to one of the largest payments markets in the world, the company said in a Wednesday (Jan. 7) press release. Modulr is already available in the United Kingdom and Europe.
“The expansion addresses...
The announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week showed artificial intelligence inference beginning to move off centralized cloud infrastructure and onto devices themselves, a shift that could change how AI is deployed, priced and scaled.
Chipmakers and device manufacturers used CES to argue that running AI locally cuts costs, reduces latency and...
Blockchain infrastructure company Fireblocks has acquired TRES Finance, a crypto accounting and financial reporting platform.
The purchase, announced on the Fireblocks blog Wednesday (Jan. 7), is designed to address the growing demand for companies doing business on the blockchain to have “audit-ready, tax-compliant” financial records.
“Digital asset regulation is quickly falling into...
Payhawk is reportedly seeking new funding that could double its valuation to roughly $2 billion.
The Bulgarian expense management startup is in discussions to raise more than $100 million, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Jan. 7), citing sources familiar with the matter.
PYMNTS has contacted Payhawk for comment but has not yet received a reply.
The Bloomberg report notes that the...
Polymarket’s real-time prediction market data will soon be featured in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Investor’s Business Daily and other Dow Jones consumer platforms.
These offerings will follow the formation of an exclusive partnership between Polymarket and Dow Jones, which is a division of News Corp, that was announced Wednesday (Jan. 7), the companies said in a...
Investors in Ant reportedly want the Chinese FinTech giant to take its international arm public.
That’s according to a report Wednesday (Jan. 7) from The Information, which notes that Ant Group’s Ant International business is thriving, thanks in part to a digital wallet arm that could one day challenge Visa and Mastercard.
A source with direct knowledge of the company’s finances told...
Fiserv-owned commerce solution Clover has launched a partnership with biometric identity/payments platform Wink.
The collaboration integrates Wink’s face and palm payments technology into Clover’s platform, the companies announced in a Wednesday (Jan. 7) news release.
“The new solution will enable Clover merchants to offer the fastest, most personalized checkout experience while...