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BBVA expands OpenAI agreement to 11,000 ChatGPT licences

BBVA has nearly quadrupled the number of its ChatGPT Enterprise licences after concluding that the technology saves employees nearly three hours a week.

14 May 2025

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Investing app Stash raises $146m

American investing app Stash has raised $146 million in an oversubscribed Series H funding round led by Goodwater Capital.

12 May 2025

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Unicredit turns to Google Cloud for transformation projects

Italy-based commercial bank has agreed a 10 year deal with Google Cloud to accelerate its digital transformation project.

12 May 2025

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Google integrates LLM Gemini Nano to prevent evolving scams

Alongside the release of their 'Fighting Scams in Search Report', Google have shared how Chrome, Search and Android are using AI-powered technologies to defend users against online scams.

09 May 2025

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Ox Security closes Series B at $60 million

The round brings the application security platform and cybersecurity company's total funding to $94 million. Led by DTCP with participation from Swisscom, IBM, Evolution Equity and Team 8, the capital will be used to strategically grow production innovation and global footprint.

09 May 2025

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Klarna takes foot off AI gas as CEO acknowledges importance of human customer service

After aggressively pursuing an AI-driven workforce reduction strategy, Klarna says it is "evolving" the strategy and hiring customer service employees in an acknowledgment that people often still want to talk to a human.

09 May 2025

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Capgemini launches perpetual KYC sandbox

French IT services and consulting company Capgemini is claiming an industry-first after releasing its perpetual KYC (pKYC) sandbox.

08 May 2025

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OakNorth to embed GPT tools from OpenAI across its business

OakNorth, the UK digital bank for SMEs, has signed a deal with OpenAI to embed generative AI technologies across its business.

07 May 2025

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Coinbase unveils internet payments protocol for AI agents

Coinbase is resurrecting a long-buried protocol for sending payments over the Internet to create an agentic payments layer that requires no human intervention.

07 May 2025

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Barclays deploys Ant International's FX forecasting model for global treasury management

Barclays Bank is to use Ant International's proprietary Time-Series Transformer (TST) AI FX Model, to help businesses reduce FX-related costs and risks against global volatilities.

07 May 2025

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Palantir, xAI and TWG Global team on AI offering for FS sector

Data analytics giant Palantir Technologies is teaming up with Elon Musk's xAI and investment firm TWG Global to help financial services firms to embed AI at the core of their organisations.

07 May 2025

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GreenBanana unveils BNPL platform for retailers

German fintech GreenBanana has launched a platform that connects retailers with buy now, pay later providers in more than 25 countries.

07 May 2025

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