Новости за 02.03.2026

The artificial intelligence industry is causing a shortage of memory chips needed by the smartphone industry even as AI features become part of the latest mobile devices, Bloomberg News reported Monday (March 2). These two trends are topping the agenda at the mobile industry event MWC Barcelona 2026, according to the report. The demand […]

Bank of America Securities economists said the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is more likely to create new kinds of jobs than to simply eliminate jobs, Seeking Alpha reported Sunday (March 1). While the stock market was shaken by predictions that AI disruption could lead to a depression, Bank of America Securities economists Claudio Irigoyen and Antonio Gabriel wrote […]

Apple has introduced what it calls a more durable and affordable iPhone 17. The iPhone 17e, which was announced Monday (March 2) and starts at $599, is a scaled-down cousin to the tech giant’s iPhone 17. It is part of a series of product rollouts the company has planned for this week. The new phone, set […]

Google on Feb. 19 introduced Gemini 3.1 Pro, an updated iteration of its Gemini AI family designed to tackle complex, enterprise-grade reasoning tasks and made accessible via multiple development and business interfaces on Google Cloud. Gemini 3.1 Pro extends Google’s strategy of embedding generative artificial intelligence (AI) into enterprise workflows and developer tools. The […]

Supply chains used to mean things like ships, steel and microchips. But Anthropic’s clash with the federal government suggests they now may include algorithms. The artificial intelligence provider’s federal feud, which stemmed from the company’s Friday (Feb. 27) decision to decline a request from the U.S. Department of Defense to strip certain safeguards from its […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are moving beyond simple automation to ease the human bottleneck across finance and enterprise workflows. Led by Sphinx Labs’ $7.1 million seed round and Basis’ new $1.15 billion valuation, startups are deploying autonomous systems that operate like digital employees. Startup Spotlight Sphinx Labs is building AI agents designed to replace […]

Pluvo raised $5 million in a seed round to scale its artificial intelligence-native financial analysis platform for finance teams. The company’s platform delivers analysis that chief financial officers and financial planning and analysis teams can interrogate and simulate in real time, Pluvo said in a Friday (Feb. 27) press release. To generate this analysis, […]

Mastercard and Santander completed Europe’s first live end-to-end payment using an artificial intelligence agent, according to a Monday (March 2) news release. The transaction marks the first agentic payment conducted within a regulated banking framework. It also represents “a significant milestone in the application of AI systems capable of initiating and completing transactions on […]

The recent increase in national bank charter activity reflects a deliberate recalibration by FinTech firms that seek to widen the range of services they offer while securing steadier funding and federal supervision. For much of the past decade, many FinTechs relied on sponsor-bank arrangements and state licensing frameworks to deliver accounts, payments and lending […]

An ex-Trump administration official is calling on states to regulate prediction markets. Mick Mulvaney, a former congressman and acting chief of staff for the first Trump White House, spoke with Wired Monday (March 2) about his role as head of Gambling Is Not Investing, a group campaigning for prediction markets to be covered by state gambling […]

FinTech company Avant closed a $200 million personal loan securitization that it said it expects to provide over $500 million in financing capacity over its 24-month life. The transaction also marks Avant’s first deal to receive AAA ratings from both Fitch Ratings and Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA), the company said in a Thursday […]

Walgreens has debuted what it calls the country’s first “hybrid pharmacy” program. The service, announced by the retailer last week, lets pharmacists divide their time between working in stores for part of the week and spending the rest of the time working from a “centralized pharmacy desk.” In a blog post announcing the move, Walgreens told […]

As artificial intelligence systems begin to move from generating copy to executing business decisions, the advertising industry is attempting to build infrastructure before the disruption fully arrives. A new initiative called the Ad Context Protocol, or AdCP, is emerging as a standardized way for AI agents to communicate with publishers, ad platforms and each […]

Anthropic is investigating an outage that took down its Claude AI model around the world. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup said Monday (March 2) that it was looking into what it called “elevated errors” on Claude. “We have identified that the Claude API is working as intended. The issues we are seeing are related to Claude.ai and […]

England’s competition watchdog is investigating three international hotel chains for their data-sharing practices. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced Monday (March 2) that it was looking into the suspected sharing of “competitively sensitive information” among Hilton, Marriott and IHG Hotels. The three chains used the hotel data analytics tools STR from CoStar, which is also under investigation, the CMA added. The regulator […]

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Branch’s Matt Peterson Sixty-eight percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. For years, financial experts blamed the individual. Too much discretionary spending, not enough discipline. Branch CFO Matt Peterson has a different theory, and data to back it up. The problem isn’t what people are spending. It’s when they’re […]

Embedded payments are becoming a core feature of modern business platforms, weaving transactions directly into everyday operational workflows. As payments shift, however, fraud risk shifts with them. In embedded environments, threats can no longer be managed effectively through point solutions that activate only after a transaction is already in motion. Instead, fraud prevention must move […]

In cybersecurity, visibility has always been a prerequisite for control. Today, the scale and stakes of what organizations can no longer see are approaching a tipping point. The result is not simply greater complexity, but a growing inability for organizations to identify where their own infrastructure begins and ends. “If you think about the […]

Small businesses are treating credit cards less like a backup and more like a flexible operating tool, and the way they use them is starting to look surprisingly consumer-like. That is the throughline of “SMB Growth Monitor: How Firms Use and Choose Credit Cards” a PYMNTS Intelligence report based on a survey of 583 U.S. […]

It was a big week in The Prompt Economy, with big moves from big companies making big claims. None were bigger than Samsung, which used its user conference to herald what it says is “The Beginning of Truly Agentic AI.” To back that up Samsung says its Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event was designed around […]

Retail investors are reportedly leaving the cryptocurrency sector, robbing the industry of a dependable driver. That’s according to a report Sunday (March 1) from Bloomberg News, which says the speculative demand that once centered around crypto has shifted into stocks. Since late 2024, retail investors have steadily shifted toward equities, a trend that sped […]

Chinese device marker Honor has reportedly introduced a humanoid robot and “robot phone.” The company demonstrated those products Sunday (March 1) at MWC Barcelona 2026, Bloomberg News reported, calling it Honor’s push to reestablish itself as an artificial intelligence-focused hardware company. Spun off from Huawei in 2020, Honor began as a budget brand before […]

Last week, FedEx sued the federal government to recover the money it had paid in tariffs. Now, the company is facing a tariff-related lawsuit of its own, the Associated Press reported Friday (Feb. 27).  The suit is one of at least two federal lawsuits — the other is against EssilorLuxottica, which makes Ray-Ban sunglasses […]

Target is reportedly facing criticism from a group of investors unhappy with its management’s decisions. That’s according to a report Friday (Feb. 27) from Reuters, which noted that this push is happening at a time when Target is struggling while rivals Walmart and Costco benefit from cost-conscious consumers. Target’s profits are down 14% in […]

China’s DeepSeek is reportedly on the verge of releasing its latest artificial intelligence model. That’s according to a report Friday (Feb. 27) by the Financial Times (FT), which noted that the debut of the company’s new large language model marks a fresh test of China’s efforts to challenge its American competitors in the AI […]