Financial institutions are pushing artificial intelligence deeper into credit underwriting, but the value of AI is increasingly being measured by what it prevents rather than what it automates. Yiren Digital says its AI-powered fraud detection systems intercepted 10,300 fraudulent borrowers across 14,500 cases in 2025, helping avoid RMB165 million ($23 million) in potential fraud-related losses….
Real-time speech AI is moving from a niche call-center technology toward a broader enterprise infrastructure layer, and Sanas is betting that communication itself can become an AI platform. The company says it ranked No. 8 on the 2026 Inc. 5000, making it one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., while taking the No….
The economics of artificial intelligence are moving beyond chips and cloud contracts into financial markets. CME Group plans to launch two futures contracts tied to the rental cost of NVIDIA H100 and Blackwell B200 GPUs, giving AI developers, cloud providers and investors a new way to track and potentially hedge one of the industry’s most…
That’s the warning from Info-Tech Research Group, which has published new research urging organizations to put stronger governance around AI-assisted software development as adoption accelerates. AI-generated code can make developers faster. It can also make software teams very efficient at creating problems they won’t discover until much later. The firm’s blueprint, Defend Against Defects and…
AITECH Cloud Network is putting privacy at the center of AI agent development. The company, formerly known as Solidus AI Tech, has partnered with Secret Network to integrate confidential computing into Agent Forge, its no-code platform for building and deploying AI agents and automated workflows. The collaboration is aimed at one of enterprise AI’s biggest…
Consumers may be considerably more comfortable handing shopping decisions to artificial intelligence than many brands assume. A new study from global media, data and creative agency Croud finds that 69% of Americans are open to letting AI purchase products on their behalf, while three-quarters would consider using AI-powered instant checkout for at least one category….
American Public Education is betting that the next big upgrade to higher education won’t be a shinier student portal. It will be an AI system that follows students from the first application through graduation—and potentially into their careers. The company announced it is building an AI-powered Student Lifecycle Platform for the American Public University System,…
PubMatic is putting a veteran ad-sales executive in charge of its next growth push, naming Megan Ramm as global chief revenue officer as artificial intelligence increasingly changes how brands buy digital media. Ramm joins PubMatic after serving as head of global sales at Uber Advertising, where she led a sales organization responsible for relationships with…
AI infrastructure developer 5C Group has secured $605 million in new debt financing led by Brookfield Asset Management, giving the company additional capital to expand a portfolio of large-scale AI data center campuses across North America as demand for high-density compute continues to rise. 5C Group Raises $605M as AI Data Center Buildout Accelerates The…
