January, 2025

January, 2025

Report: Amazon and Apple Considering Increasing Ad Spending on X
Amazon and Apple are reportedly considering increasing their ad spending on social media platform X. Amazon is looking to spend “considerably more” after pulling much of its advertising from th...

Consumers Keep Spending in Q4, But Savings Take a Hit
The latest data on fourth quarter gross domestic product indicates a general “headline number” slowdown. But underneath the hood, consumer spending is the engine pulling the train, and though spen...

Report: OpenAI Aims to Raise $40 Billion in New Funding Round
OpenAI is reportedly in talks for a $40 billion funding round that would value it at $300 billion. The round would be led by SoftBank, which would invest between $15 billion and $25 billion, with the ...

Uber Files Racketeering Lawsuit Alleging Auto Insurance-Related Fraud
Uber Technologies is reportedly suing a group of law firms, doctors and pain management clinics, alleging they staged car accidents and performed medically unnecessary surgeries. The ridesharing firm�...

AstroPay Gets Payments License From Brazil’s Central Bank
Cross-border finance FinTech AstroPay received a payments license in Brazil. The license from the Brazilian central bank allows the company to offer its multicurrency digital wallet in Latin America�...

This Week in B2B: Central Bank Best Practices, AI Agents, FinTech Innovation
The future of corporate finance is shifting from reactive to predictive, and that’s great news for B2B innovation. This rapid and ongoing shift toward advancements in digitization, real-time payment...

Grubhub and Avride Bring Robot Delivery to College Campuses
Grubhub is working with Avride to bring robot delivery to American college campuses. The program, already available at The Ohio State University, lets students at Grubhub partnered-colleges order meal...

AI Tools: Microsoft Azure Adds DeepSeek; Alibaba Releases New Model; Meta Gets ‘Memories’
This week in artificial intelligence models and tools, Microsoft announced that DeepSeek R1 is available on Azure AI Foundry, and Alibaba released a model that it said is better than DeepSeek. Meanwhi...

CFPB Warns Consumers of Rising Number of Credit Reporting Firms
The CFPB has published its annual list of companies that collect and sell consumer data. The list, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said Thursday (Jan. 30), is designed to let consumers...

ElevenLabs Raises $180 Million to Make AI Audio ‘More Expressive and Controllable’
ElevenLabs raised $180 million in a Series C funding round to continue the development of its artificial intelligence (AI) audio technology that is used in content creation, customer support, gaming, ...

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