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Banking on Intelligence: The Global Sprint to AI Maturity in Finance

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Source: Google Cloud press release / 2023 Generative AI now promises to make these bots more conversational and powerful. Meanwhile, data privacy and model transparency are top concerns in the UK (as they are elsewhere). An EMarketer report suggests that on the customer-facing side, many U.S. Bank of America’s Erica chatbot).

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Amazon (AMZN) Analysis: Performance, Market Dynamics, and AI-Driven Insights as of June 17, 2025

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These tools, including user-friendly trading bots and Double Agents that detect both bullish and bearish signals, empower traders to navigate AMZN’s volatility with greater confidence. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre. Please read our Privacy Policy.

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COVID-19, Data Security, Shelved Madewell IPO Top This Week’s News

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Banking Bots: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Digital Fraud Tracker). Automated bots can overwhelm the cybersecurity groups of banks, but many bots are, in fact, beneficial. The challenge is setting the good bots apart from the bad and countering fraud attempts of the latter. Fun, Cool and Otherwise Interesting.

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Report: Skillz Takes Bowling Online — And Strikes Out Bad Actors

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Fraudsters are also turning to emerging technologies to help them skim some money from digital gaming and gambling platforms as well, with another study finding that fraud involving malicious bots are also on the rise. One form of technology that could help to mitigate some of the rising forms of fraud on gaming platforms is biometrics.

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Baby Bots: Taking Small Steps Toward The Automated Future

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To use Webster’s example, the phrase “double shot” could confuse a more generic AI, but a specifically tailored barista bot would know that the customer was trying to order two shots of espresso — not two shots of liquor and not a basketball arcade system for their man cave. Is it turned on? Brown said it’s not out of reach.

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'Threat intelligence' technology can fight big box data breaches

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Data breaches have been proliferating over the past couple of years, but there's new technology out of the 'bot' and analytics worlds that can help.

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F5 Adds To Portfolio With $1B Shape Security Acquisition

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To drive maximum business value and the best experiences for their customers, these apps need to perform flawlessly while protecting data security and user privacy. Shape, for its part, protects the biggest airlines, retailers, government agencies and banks with complex fraud, abuse and bot defense.