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Stord has acquired Shipwire, the artificial intelligence (AI) fulfillment subsidiary of CEVA Logistics, expanding its global logistics footprint and strengthening its technology platform as brands accelerate adoption of intelligent end-to-end commerce infrastructure.
The Atlanta-based logistics and commerce enablement company announced the move Monday (Jan. 5), saying the transaction...
Goldman Sachs reportedly sees more cryptocurrency adoption happening as regulations improve and new usages emerge.
A new report from the Wall Street bank, cited Monday (Jan. 5) by CoinDesk, offers a positive outlook for the industry, especially for infrastructure companies that support the crypto ecosystem but aren’t as exposed to market fluctuations.
“We see the improving regulatory...
Experian made its commercial data information available through its Ascend platform.
The move offers “in-depth, granular information on the borrowing and repayment history” of more than 8 million businesses in the United Kingdom to help lenders with their decisions, the data and tech company said in a news release Monday (Jan. 5).
In 2024, Experian data supported at least two-thirds of...
DeepSeek says it has developed a new way to train large language models that allows performance to improve without a proportional increase in training costs, challenging one of the core assumptions that has shaped how the artificial intelligence (AI) industry has scaled over the past several years.
DeepSeek outlined the approach in a recent research paper and has positioned it as part...
From agentic finance platforms to on-device artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and late-stage model builders in China, this week’s deals point to a market prioritizing deployment over experimentation.
Several new funding announcements supported AI systems designed to run locally rather than in the cloud, reflecting growing concern over latency, privacy and compute costs.
In a Monday...
Returns management provider ReturnPro has launched its Returns Portal App on the Shopify App Store.
“Unlike traditional returns apps that stop at customer initiation, ReturnPro’s solution addresses the critical question most platforms leave unanswered: what happens next?” the company said in a Monday (Jan. 5) news release.
As eCommerce drives an increasing number of returns, the...
Berlin-based embedded finance platform Solaris has a new chief executive.
Carsten Höltkemeyer, the firm’s CEO, stepped down at the end of 2025, the company said in its announcement last week. Steffen Jentsch, chief information officer and chief process officer for FinTech flatexDEGIRO AG, will take his place.
“Jentsch brings a proven track record in scaling digital financial platforms...
America’s major hospital systems are becoming a testing ground for widespread artificial intelligence (AI) adoption.
That’s according to a report Monday (Jan. 5) by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which notes that these health centers are seeing what AI can do, but also showing where it falls short, in some cases through disturbing errors.
A little more than a quarter of health systems...
Latin America has captured an outsized share of global attention in recent weeks as geopolitics, elections and monetary pressures sharpen focus on emerging markets.
Despite the volatility in the region, however, Latin America’s FinTech ecosystem remains defined by steady financial innovation, backed by renewed funding flows into the region, especially via venture capital.
Digital...
Cryptocurrency wallet Ledger is reportedly dealing with a data breach connected to its payment processor.
As CoinDesk reported Monday (Jan. 5), an email sent to customers by Global-e—Ledger’s third-party payments service—and later shared on X said the breach of the company’s cloud system involved unauthorized access to Ledger users’ personal details such as names and contact...