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Finance & Economics

Fidelity Limits Mobile Deposits as Banks Defend Against Check Fraud

Online check fraud schemes boom forces major US banks to introduce additional security measures such as drastically decreasing limits to mobile deposits as Fidelity recently did.

Finance & Economics

US Consumer Sentiment Improves

The rise of consumer sentiment continues to be observed in the United States.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Healthcare Fintech Care.fi Raises $955K in Debt Capital

Fresh funding complements earlier Care.fi investments of $2.6 million and fuels fintech’s vision of becoming India’s healthcare-focused Small Finance Bank.

Science & Technology

OpenAI Reportedly Sees Roughly $5 Billion Loss This Year

The media reports that OpenAI, one of the largest players in the global technology sector, which has developed the world’s most popular chatbot based on artificial intelligence called ChatGPT, expects losses of about $5 billion in the current year.

Science & Technology

Tokyo Electron Plans to Operate in India

Tokyo Electron Ltd. aims to form a team of engineers specializing in chips in India.

Science & Technology

Experts Say About AI Chatbots Potential as Cybercrime Tool

HP Wolf Security has recorded the first case when criminals used generative artificial intelligence technologies to write malicious code to distribute a remote access Trojan.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Fintech Firm Chime Reportedly Taps Morgan Stanley to Handle IPO

Media reports that Chime Financial Inc., which specializes in financial technology and focuses on providing free services, has tapped Morgan Stanley to lead its initial public offering (IPO) of shares.

Science & Technology

Alphabet to Invest in South Carolina

Business giant Alphabet, which ownership structure includes Google, plans to invest $3.3 billion in South Carolina.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Visa to Acquire Featurespace for Real-Time AI Payment Protection

Visa has agreed to acquire Featurespace to enhance its existing fraud detection solutions, offering real-time AI-based protection against payment fraud and financial crime.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Klarna Grows Its Presence in Physical Stores With Adyen Partnership

Klarna’s flexible payment methods will be available on Adyen’s physical payment terminals across Europe, North America and Australia.

Finance & Economics

ECB Rate-Cut Bets Jump Amid New Inflation Data

The latest data on the dynamic of the inflationary process in Spain and France have become the driving force behind the intensification of the spread of expectations among investors and economists that the European Central Bank will accelerate the implementation of measures to ease its monetary policy strategy.

Blockchain & Crypto

PayPal Enables Crypto Payments for Business Accounts

PayPal U.S. business accounts finally receive crypto capabilities similar to those individual consumers have been enjoying for years.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Visa and Mastercard Allegedly Spend Millions to Block Competition

Critics from the government watchdog argue that the Visa-Mastercard duopoly burdens businesses and customers with high fees.

Science & Technology

Microsoft to Invest $2.7 Billion in Brazil

Microsoft on Thursday, September 26, announced its intention to invest 14.7 billion reais ($2.7 billion) in Brazil over three years.

Science & Technology

Meta Demonstrates New AR Smart Glasses

Orion smart glasses by Meta are described as a time machine bringing users a glimpse of a fascinating future where reality and virtual environment seamlessly blend.

Science & Technology

AWS Makes Meta’s Llama 3.2 Available to Customers

Meta’s large language models Llama 3.2 have become generally available on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and via Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia.