March 14, 2025

innovation

Finance

How AI Is Transforming Agriculture

Technology has long had a profound impact on farming practices. With the advent of artificial intelligence, the growing intersection of AgTech, finance and robotics is helping ensure that the future of agriculture stays fertile. “AI and machine learning are not new technologies,” Ceres AI CEO Ramsey Masri told PYMNTS’ CEO Karen Webster. “They’ve been around

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Investment

Generative AI brings us closer to automating investment expertise

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini excel at being trained on large data-sets to generate informative responses to prompts. Yi Cao, an assistant professor of accounting at the Donald G. Costello College of Business at George Mason University, and Long Chen, associate professor and area chair of

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Investment

FinTech security leader PortSwigger secures $112m investment from Brighton Park Capital

PortSwigger, a distinguished leader in the cybersecurity realm, has successfully secured a substantial $112m investment from Brighton Park Capital. This landmark funding is poised to fuel innovation and scale operations globally, marking PortSwigger’s inaugural external financial backing since its inception in 2008 by Dafydd Stuttard, also known affectionately as “Chief Swig.” The investment will predominantly

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Funds

NATO Innovation Fund makes first investments to secure the future of the Alliance’s 1 billion citizens

Equity investments to strengthen the defence, security and resilience of Allies by revolutionising manufacturing, making air travel faster and more fuel-efficient, advancing Artificial Intelligence and powering autonomous robotic solutions Alpine Space Ventures, OTB Ventures, Join Capital and Vsquared Ventures receive backing to support early-stage innovators with a focus on strengthening both emerging and well-established deep

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Investors

FinTechs Flounder as Investors Embrace ‘AI Mindset’

Has the FinTech industry hit bottom after years of skyrocketing investments? That seemed to be the sentiment among some executives and investors at the Money20/20 event in Amsterdam earlier this month, CNBC reported Thursday (June 13). Among them was Iana Dimitrova, CEO of embedded finance startup OpenPayd, who told CNBC that the market has “recalibrated.”

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Crypto

Opinion | How crypto can help restore Hong Kong’s financial glory

For those unfamiliar with cryptocurrency, this is a major milestone in Asia and across the world as it opens the road for adoption and investment in cryptocurrency, moving the asset class from niche to mainstream. Although the US allowed spot bitcoin ETFs in January, it only recently approved applications to list spot ether ETFs; a

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