Reimagining Merchant Onboarding In Financial Services

I'll explore how integrating a comprehensive AI-driven onboarding framework can provide a realistic, effective blueprint for ...
Decrypt

OpenAI Wants to Kill the Chatbot It Invented and Turn It Into a Superapp

The company that launched ChatGPT in 2022 is now betting its future on something closer to WeChat than a Q&A box.
techtimes

Claude Now Works Inside Excel: Microsoft Drops Anthropic’s AI Into The Spreadsheet 750 Million People Use

Microsoft's Build 2026 conference produced the year's biggest enterprise-AI announcement, and the piece with the widest reach is also the most concrete: Anthropic's Claude is now an option in Excel ...

YouTuber PewDiePie Launches Free AI That Runs Privately On Your PC, Taking on Claude and ChatGPT

PewDiePie has released Odysseus, a free and open-source AI workspace that runs on a user’s own computer. The project is not a new AI model. Instead, ...
CRN

The Coolest Data Analytics Companies Of The 2026 Big Data 100

Part 1 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the data analytics and business ...

Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information

Harness-1 suggests that the future of agentic AI lies in building better environments for models to work within, rather than ...

For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer

Dozens of cryptographically verified open source packages from Microsoft were compromised late last week to add advanced credential-stealing code that was triggered when developers opened them in AI ...
Tech Times

VS Code Agents Hit Stable: Air-Gapped BYOK Unlocks Enterprise AI Coding

VS Code agents are now in Stable preview, and the 1.122 update removed the GitHub OAuth requirement from BYOK, letting defense, healthcare, and finance developers run fully air-gapped AI-assisted ...