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Google Partners With AI Company Anthropic, Reportedly Makes Financial Investment

Google Partners With AI Company Anthropic, Reportedly Makes Financial Investment by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, February 5, 2023 Google’s partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic as a preferred cloud provider, announced Friday, includes a financial investment, very similar to Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI. While the post on the Google Cloud blog did not mention Google’s … Continue reading Google Partners With AI Company Anthropic, Reportedly Makes Financial Investment →

Arrival CEO steps back amidst the electric van startup’s financial woes

Arrival pauses work on its electric bus and car projects The company reportedly needs to manage its dwindling cash pile.     Daniel   Cooper|@danielwcooper Anglo-American EV startup Arrival is putting its groundbreaking bus and car projects on ice as it struggles to manage its cash reserves. The Financial Times reports that the company, which … Continue reading Arrival CEO steps back amidst the electric van startup’s financial woes →

Tax prep software companies shared customers’ private financial data with Facebook, says new report

  By Jude Cramer November 22, 2022 Popular tax filing services such as TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block have been quietly sharing sensitive information about their users—including names, email addresses, income, filing status, refund amounts, and dependents’ college scholarship amounts—with Facebook, via a widespread code called the Meta Pixel. A new report from The Markup, … Continue reading Tax prep software companies shared customers’ private financial data with Facebook, says new report →

Protect What You’ve Earned: 7 Ways to Safeguard Your Financial Investments

Protect What You’ve Earned: 7 Ways to Safeguard Your Financial Investments Due / 03 Nov 2022   Society has come under a unique amount of stress in recent years. So have plenty of financial investments. A pandemic created economic disruption around the globe. The “Great Resignation” put pressure on businesses—pressure that those companies have passed along to … Continue reading Protect What You’ve Earned: 7 Ways to Safeguard Your Financial Investments →

How Southeast Asia’s largest bank uses AI to fight financial fraud

Hitting the Books: How Southeast Asia’s largest bank uses AI to fight financial fraud Machine learning is streamlining traditional, rules-based money laundering investigations. A. Tarantola @terrortola   DBS Bank: AI-Driven Transaction Surveillance Yes, robots are coming to take our jobs. That’s a good thing, we should be happy they are because those jobs they’re taking … Continue reading How Southeast Asia’s largest bank uses AI to fight financial fraud →

Financial concerns threaten the 2023 holiday shopping season

As COVID concerns decline, worries about the financial impact of a recession have soared. Kim Davis on September 20, 2022 The economy has finally replaced COVID as the main source of anxiety for consumers as brands prepare for the holiday shopping season. In fact, financial concerns have surged more than 150% YoY, while concerns about … Continue reading Financial concerns threaten the 2023 holiday shopping season →

Citi’s head of racial equity talks about how the financial giant is fixing ‘credit invisibility’

By Sam Becker September 10, 2022     Tens of millions of Americans live outside of the mainstream financial system, and as many as 11%—or an estimated 50 million, as of 2022—can be classified as “credit invisible.” That means that they have no or little credit history; and as a result, could be denied access … Continue reading Citi’s head of racial equity talks about how the financial giant is fixing ‘credit invisibility’ →

Millennials and Gen Z want more financial advice from employers. Boomers? Not so much

By Shalene Gupta       June 22, 2022 Our behavior is shaped by the times we live in and the life stage we’re in, and this includes our attitudes about personal finances. A new study by business research firm Logica Research delved into the financial profiles of baby boomers, Gen X, millennials and Gen … Continue reading Millennials and Gen Z want more financial advice from employers. Boomers? Not so much →