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United Airlines grew its loyalty revenue by promoting loyalty rather than rewards, an executive said Wednesday (Jan. 21) during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call.
The airline’s loyalty revenue saw year-over-year increases of 10% for the fourth quarter and 9% for the full year of 2025, according to a Wednesday earnings release.
Andrew Nocella, executive vice president and chief...
The House of Representatives passed two bills Tuesday (Jan. 20) that would require the Small Business Administration (SBA) to help small businesses adopt artificial intelligence (AI).
The AI for Main Street Act (HR 5764), sponsored by Rep. Mark Alford, R-Missouri, requires the SBA’s Small Business Development Centers to provide guidance, training and outreach that will help small...
Apple reportedly plans to increase the capabilities of Siri, turning the digital assistant into an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot later this year.
The chatbot will be added to the operating systems of the iPhone, iPad and Mac; will be integrated into core apps such as mail, music and photos; and will be activated by the user saying “Siri” or holding down the side button on the...
Revolut made its one-tap checkout solution Revolut Pay compatible with Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2).
The company also contributed to the development of the open protocol by adapting the agentic commerce flows to account-to-account payments, according to a Monday (Jan. 19) press release.
The collaboration with Google is part of Revolut’s efforts to make Revolut Pay a core...
Reckitt is one of the few global consumer goods companies that has moved generative artificial intelligence (AI) out of experimentation and into daily operations at scale.
Instead of running isolated pilots, the company, whose brands include Lysol and Mucinex, rebuilt its data infrastructure first, then deployed AI agents and analytics tools that now support marketing, sustainability...
Apple is reportedly working on bringing Apple Pay to India sometime this year.
That’s according to a report Wednesday (Jan. 21) from the website Moneycontrol, citing sources familiar with the matter.
They say the tech giant is holding talks with card networks including Mastercard and Visa, while also working on landing regulatory approval. Assuming those approvals and commercial...
Tokenization is emerging beyond the confines of pilot programs.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday (Jan. 21), panelists signaled that real-world financial use cases are beginning to take hold, particularly in payments and settlement.
While artificial intelligence has dominated headlines, the discussion, “Is Tokenization the Future?,” made clear that...
When Shopify enables sales through artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots later this month, the merchants using its platform will pay OpenAI a 4% fee on sales made through the ChatGPT checkout, on top of the fees charged by Shopify, The Information reported Wednesday, citing a Shopify spokesperson.
Sales made through the chatbot checkouts offered by Google’s AI Mode and Gemini and...
Saudi Arabia’s National Infrastructure Fund (Infra) and the kingdom’s global artificial intelligence (AI) company Humain announced a $1.2 billion strategic financing framework agreement to expand AI and digital infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia.
The framework agreement includes nonbinding financing terms of Humain’s development of as much as 250 megawatts of hyperscale AI data...