SoundHound AI acquired enterprise artificial intelligence company Amelia, saying the move will expand its conversational AI capabilities to new verticals and hundreds of enterprise brands....
India is using artificial intelligence (AI) to expand digital payments to rural areas. As the Financial Times (FT) noted in a report Saturday (Aug. 19), while...
Nacha’s Payments Innovation Alliance has made a legal and risk-mitigation resource guide for financial institutions that want to add voice payments capabilities, a press release...
Voice was at the heart of commerce long before the Sumerians invented cuneiform, and 5,000 years later, that fact is coming full-circle as consumers of...
“Alexa, bring banks customers.” Only five years ago — what seems like a pre-pandemic lifetime — PYMNTS hosted its Alexa Challenge. The event was geared...
A top Google software engineer is causing some controversy — and possibly dropping hints — by downplaying the future of voice-enabled search in favor of other modalities....
Like the plot of a science fiction film, the COVID global pandemic has forced the planet to futurize fast, and nowhere more so than in...
Consumers and microbusinesses now get an average of two disbursements each year, excluding tax disbursements from local, state and federal governments. Yet, many of those...
In today’s top news in digital-first banking, Next Insurance is aiming to raise new capital that would value the FinTech startup at $2.25 billion, and...