Simile, an AI startup, raised $100 million to develop a model predicting human behavior, including customer purchases and earnings call questions. The funding was primarily led by Index Ventures.

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WASHINGTON >> U.S. consumer prices increased less than expected in January amid cheaper gasoline and a moderation in rental inflation, but households faced higher costs for services, suggesting little ...

Field-level analysis examines how ranking algorithms shape consumer trust, visibility, and competition in local service ...

Buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) firms like Affirm (AFRM), Klarna, and others are masking true consumer debt levels and obscuring underwriting risks. BNPL adoption is widespread across all demographics, with ...

Mastercard's Decision Intelligence Pro uses recurrent neural networks to analyze 160 billion yearly transactions in under 50 ...

Fundamental, which just closed a $225 million funding round, develops "large tabular models" (LTMs) for structured data like tables and spreadsheets.

Behavior is at the heart of nearly every challenge in the workplace, from leadership and fair decisions to high performance and AI adoption. But how should organizations go about influencing behavior?

David Chikli is the Co-Founder and CTO of Airfold Inc., focused on building consumer AI products shaped by behavioral insight. Consumer AI is not a technology problem first. It is a behavioral problem ...

Last year, AI clearly moved from novelty to expectation. Hyper-personalisation ceased to be optional and became a competitive baseline, brands that failed here struggled to retain relevance. Studies ...