Investors Ramp up Bets on the Agent Economy
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are moving beyond simple automation to ease the human bottleneck across finance and enterprise workflows. Led by Sphinx Labs’ $7.1 million seed round and Basis’...
Pluvo Secures $5 Million to Turn Financial Data Into Answers
Pluvo raised $5 million in a seed round to scale its artificial intelligence-native financial analysis platform for finance teams.
The company’s platform delivers analysis that chief fina...
Mastercard and Santander Mark Agentic Payment Milestone
Mastercard and Santander completed Europe’s first live end-to-end payment using an artificial intelligence agent, according to a Monday (March 2) news release.
The transaction marks the f...
OCC Clarifies Charter Rule and Extends National Path for FinTechs
The recent increase in national bank charter activity reflects a deliberate recalibration by FinTech firms that seek to widen the range of services they offer while securing steadier funding and feder...
Ex-Trump Official Wants Prediction Markets Regulated By States
An ex-Trump administration official is calling on states to regulate prediction markets.
Mick Mulvaney, a former congressman and acting chief of staff for the first Trump White House, spok...
Walgreens Brings Hybrid Pharmacy Program to 6 States
Walgreens has debuted what it calls the country’s first “hybrid pharmacy” program.
The service, announced by the retailer last week, lets pharmacists divide their time between worki...
Anthropic Investigates as Claude Suffers International Outage
Anthropic is investigating an outage that took down its Claude AI model around the world.
The artificial intelligence (AI) startup said Monday (March 2) that it was looking into what it ca...
