Why AI Agents Will Live or Die on Permission
Why AI Agents Will Live or Die on Permission Grace Hopper, the Yale PhD in math, computer pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral, liked to tell audiences that “it’s…
Agentic AI
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Artificial Intelligence
Socure Launches Tools to Determine AI Agents’ Trustworthiness
Identity/risk intelligence company Socure has introduced a method for determining whether artificial intelligence (AI) agents are trustworthy. Agent Intelligence, announced Tuesday (Oct. 27), detects AI agents, scores whether they should…
Artificial Intelligence
Meta and Nvidia Team to Enhance the Muse AI Family
Meta has turned to Nvidia for help in expanding its Muse family of AI models. The collaboration will focus on improving inference and training performance amid rising demand for “useful”…
Payments
Tungsten Automation Says Scale Will Keep Humans in the Payment Loop
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Tungsten Automation’s Emily Nash-Walker A company can automate routine supplier payments while requiring human approval for unusually large payments or transactions outside its…
First Internet Bank Bets AI Means More Loans, Not Fewer People
First Internet Bank of Indiana has cut compliance review times for Small Business Administration (SBA) loan applicants by 87% using AI agents, according to a case study from artificial intelligence…
Who’s Responsible When AI Agents Go Rogue?
Watch more: Need to Know With ClawSecure’s JD Salbego Warning: This story will go fairly deep into the details of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) and agentic security. And another warning:…
Artificial Intelligence
AI Agents Take On Healthcare’s Paperwork So Doctors Can Focus on Patients
This week The Prompt Economy focuses on healthcare. It’s here that agentic AI is affecting payments, research, care protocols and the patient experience. It’s early days, but as you will…
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic’s New AI Agent Purchases Business Supplies
Anthropic has unveiled an app in which Claude works as a “proactive agent” on behalf of professionals and small business owners, including purchasing business supplies, the company said in a…
ServiceNow Announces New AI Agent Services With Nvidia
Enterprise software platform ServiceNow has launched an agentic-AI-focused expansion of its partnership with Nvidia. The new updates are “designed to bring governance and security across every layer of AI agent…
Artificial Intelligence
Legora Hits $8.8 Billion Valuation as Legal Professionals Deploy AI Agents
Legora raised $550 million in a Series E funding round to support the expansion of its agentic operating system for legal professionals, Legora aOS, the company said in a Wednesday…
Hackers Employ Grok and Claude to Attack LatAm Banks
A hacking group known as CyberCartel reportedly used artificial intelligence (AI) agents from several high profile tech companies to automate cyberattacks on Latin American businesses. That’s according to a report…
Artificial Intelligence
Nestlé Hands Its Overdue Invoices to SAP’s AI Agents
A company the size of Nestlé cannot chase every late invoice at once. Collections teams have limited time, so the order of the calls matters. Nestlé is turning to artificial…
Mural Raises $15 Million to Help Companies Scale Agentic Finance
Financial infrastructure company Mural said it has raised $15 million in new funding. The Series A financing round will support the firm’s global expansion and investments in the regulatory and…
Artificial Intelligence
Mastercard Debuts Tool to Help AI Agents Purchase Digital Services
Mastercard has launched early access to Agent Pay for Machines, a tool designed to let autonomous artificial intelligence agents purchase digital services. The new offering builds on x402, an open protocol…
Artificial Intelligence
Google Offers Gemini Agent to Government Workers
After introducing an artificial intelligence (AI) agent for workers in the private sector, Google is shifting its focus to public employees. The tech giant on Tuesday (Oct. 20) announced the…
Artificial Intelligence
AI Agent Cuts Centalion’s Trade Finance Amendment Time 80%
Issuing a bank guarantee at a large commodity trader is still a desk job. A treasury employee checks how much room is left on a credit facility, pulls the banking…
Artificial Intelligence
Circle and Proof Help Businesses Trust AI Agent Transactions
Proof and Circle Internet Group said Monday (Oct. 19) that they will demonstrate at Money20/20 how open identity and payment protocols can work together to enable businesses to trust transactions…
Artificial Intelligence
TikTok Turns to Shoplazza to Power Agentic Commerce Offering
Commerce operating system Shoplazza says it is teaming with TikTok to “support new agentic commerce shopping experiences.” The collaboration is designed to shorten the journey between product discovery and purchase and help merchants capitalize…
Artificial Intelligence
Santander Turns to Nvidia to Build New AI Banking Capabilities
Santander has teamed with Nvidia to come up with capabilities for evaluating artificial intelligence models and agents for banking. This work by the Santander AI lab is designed to help…
Artificial Intelligence
Sam Altman’s World Debuts ID Verification for AI Agents
Sam Altman’s iris-scanning project World is making what it calls its “first industry-specific push.” The company on Sunday (Oct. 18) announced World ID for banking and finance, designed to help…
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Turns to Lawyers to Teach AI Agents to Negotiate
Anthropic is reportedly in discussions with legal groups to teach artificial intelligence agents negotiation skills. That’s according to a report Sunday (Oct. 18) by the Financial Times (FT) citing two…
I tried Meta’s Muse AI agent for 3 days — then it sent me a strange message that made me want to delete the app completely
Ugo Nwune stopped using Meta's Muse AI agent after receiving a strange message from the agent. Courtesy of Ugo Nwune Ugo Nwune, a Houston-based developer, stopped using Meta's Muse after…
Dividends
Warren Buffett says to ‘make money while you sleep.’ AI agents may be the answer, Robinhood CEO says.
Warren Buffett has long recommended people make their money work for them. Bloomberg/Getty Images Warren Buffett has championed investing as a way to put your money to work and build…
Artificial Intelligence
Do Banks Need AI Employees More Than They Do Core Upgrades?
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Kastle’s Rishi Choudhary Rishi Choudhary, Co-Founder and CEO of Kastle, believes that banks have been approaching AI modernization from the wrong end of the technology stack:…
