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63% of Consumers Want an AI-Powered Voice Assistant to Help With Every Day Tasks
63% of Consumers Want an AI-Powered Voice Assistant to Help With Every Day Tasks
May 02, 2023  |  Voice Activation

The next interface set to revolutionize consumer lives is also the oldest: voice. Connected devices are rapidly entering a modern hands-free, voice-driven era, as next-generation...

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UK Cuts Tech Firms Slack on Online Content Fraud
UK Cuts Tech Firms Slack on Online Content Fraud
May 01, 2023  |  Security & Fraud

The U.K.’s new anti-fraud strategy reportedly places less burden on tech companies. As the Financial Times reported Monday (May 1), the British government is set to unveil...

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FDIC Sells Failed First Republic Bank to JPMorgan
FDIC Sells Failed First Republic Bank to JPMorgan
May 01, 2023  |  Banking

After weeks of creeping to the edge of collapse, First Republic Bank is no more. Regulators seized control of the struggling California lender over the...

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OpenAI Reopens ChatGPT to Italian Users
OpenAI Reopens ChatGPT to Italian Users
April 30, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

OpenAI says its ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is again available in Italy. Italy had banned the use of ChatGPT over privacy concerns, but OpenAI says...

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Regulators Blame Signature for Own Failure and Themselves for SVB’s
Regulators Blame Signature for Own Failure and Themselves for SVB’s
April 28, 2023  |  Banking

In a scathing self-assessment, the Federal Reserve’s autopsy on Silicon Valley Bank’s failure puts blame partially on its own doorstep, as regulator reports on Signature...

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Big Tech Leans on AI to Stabilize After Brutal Year
Big Tech Leans on AI to Stabilize After Brutal Year
April 28, 2023  |  Big Tech

It has been a challenging period for even the largest players in the tech industry. But this week’s earnings show that sector leaders like Amazon,...

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Basware Adds AI to Automatically Handle Exception Invoices
Basware Adds AI to Automatically Handle Exception Invoices
April 27, 2023  |  B2B Payments

Basware is now using artificial intelligence (AI) to address, correct and automate exception invoices. The company’s SmartPDF, which already extracted data from PDF invoices and turned...

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Meta Says Generative AI and the Metaverse Will Evolve Together
Meta Says Generative AI and the Metaverse Will Evolve Together
April 26, 2023  |  Earnings

While its Reality Labs unit continues hemorrhaging money, Meta is far from giving up on the metaverse, even as it pursues other less visionary projects...

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Companies Tap Their Own Data to Drive Efficiencies With AI
Companies Tap Their Own Data to Drive Efficiencies With AI
April 26, 2023  |  Artificial Intelligence

Today’s data-driven, digital landscape is transforming and optimizing business processes in ways previously unimaginable. Top executives at Alphabet, Microsoft and Bank of America (BoA) and...

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