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Armadin Raises $190 Million to Combat AI-Driven Cyberattacks
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (338+ words) Cybersecurity company Armadin raised a record $189.9 million, according to a Tuesday (March 10) press release. The company's combined seed and Series A funding round is said to be the largest such financing round in cybersecurity history and will help Armadin in…...
Amazon Secures Court Order Against Perplexity AI Shopping Agent
51+ min ago (350+ words) Amazon secured a temporary injunction to stop Perplexity's artificial intelligence agent from shopping and making purchases on its site, CNBC reported Tuesday (March 10). A federal judge ruled Monday (March 9) that Amazon provided "strong evidence" that Perplexity's Comet browser accessed its…...
New Governance Tools From OpenAI and Microsoft Target AI Risks
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (392+ words) This difference brings new governance challenges as companies deploy AI agents in real business workflows. Traditional cybersecurity tools were made for monitoring applications and networks, not for tracking the complex behavior of autonomous systems interacting with multiple data sources and…...
Google Deploys AI Agents to Help Pentagon Automate Jobs
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (431+ words) Google is reportedly rolling out artificial intelligence (AI) agents to help the Pentagon automate its workforce. The tech giant's Gemini AI agents, which can carry out tasks independently on behalf of a user as directed, will initially operate on unclassified…...
CFOs Tackle B2B Payments Delinquency by Using Data and AI
5+ hour, 26+ min ago (612+ words) Late B2B payments carry hidden costs, including staff time and operational friction from manual collections, even though receivables are often among a company's largest assets. CFOs are shifting from reactive collections to predictive AR, using data and AI to forecast delinquency…...
Designing Enterprise Lifecycle Trust
19+ hour, 39+ min ago (308+ words) Digital trust is no longer a one-time decision, it's a lifecycle. In this PYMNTS-hosted roundtable, senior leaders from Trulioo and Mastercard will break down how leading organizations are rethinking trust from onboarding through every subsequent interaction. The discussion connects the…...
Rhoda AI Raises $450 Million to Automate Manufacturing and Logistics
3+ hour, 12+ min ago (398+ words) Robotic intelligence firm'Rhoda AI'emerged from stealth Tuesday (March 10) and announced it raised $450 million in a Series A funding round. The company is building a robot foundation model that combines pretraining on hundreds of millions of videos with closed-loop video predictive…...
JPMorgan Payments and Mirakl Form Agentic Commerce Pact
4+ hour, 36+ min ago (393+ words) This collaboration,announcedTuesday (March 10) will combine Mirakl's Nexus agentic commerce solution J.P. Morgan Payments' infrastructure to power transactions as artificial intelligence (AI) agents play a greater role in consumer and business shopping habits. "We are entering an era where AI agents…...
Sigma360 Raises $17 Million to Fund Financial Crime Prevention
4+ hour, 13+ min ago (351+ words) The company says its Series B round,announcedTuesday (March 10), will help it strengthen its risk intelligence datasets, deepen its artificial intelligence (AI) automation capabilities and expand Sigma360s presence among financial institutions. The release notes that Jones founded Sigma360 following a career in…...
71% of Services Firms Cite AI Skill Gaps
12+ hour, 25+ min ago (464+ words) Just months before Block's dramatic announcement of letting go of 40% of its workforce, a growing number of large companies said they were ready for artificial intelligence (AI), yet many admitted they were still writing the workforce playbook as they went....