KredosAi announced the launch of Rich Communication Services (RCS) into full production to enhance contact strategies for past-due UScellular customers. KredosAi now delivers hundreds of thousands of RCS messages daily across its client base through its AI-driven platform. This enables highly personalized and branded messaging experiences. By embedding RCS directly into its proprietary AI platform, KredosAi enables enterprises to connect with customers through intelligent, timely messaging that results in more customers taking desired payment action. With support for Apple’s iOS 18 rollout of RCS and widespread Android compatibility, enterprises can now engage customers across all devices with a seamless, app-like experience, without requiring a separate app download. UScellular and KredosAi are revolutionizing past-due customer engagement by deploying RCS at scale for this essential use case. With its ability to elevate customer interactions, RCS fosters greater trust and transparency—leading to improved outcomes for both consumers and businesses alike.
Smartcat speeds up content creation and translation with pre-built AI Agents that automate everyday tasks, getting global content to market faster
Enterprise AI platform SmartCat has launched its expert-enabled AI Agents, a breakthrough designed to help businesses automate the entire global content lifecycle with unmatched quality, speed, and scale. Smartcat’s AI Agents continuously learn from an organization’s own people, brand guidelines, rules, and feedback, allowing marketing, L&D, product, and engineering teams to simultaneously create, translate, and localize content with full control and consistency. Teams can now: Speed up content creation and translation with pre-built AI Agents that automate everyday tasks, getting global content to market faster. Customize Agent capabilities using a no-code Agent Builder, tailoring them to hundreds of global content and communication use cases. Scale enterprise-expertise through the Skills Graph, which constantly learns and evolves with your business through human and agent collaboration—enabling all AI Agents to perform like your top employees. Boost human-agent productivity with a context-aware assistant that replaces traditional help centers, onboarding tools, and in-app support with real-time, AI-driven guidance. Smartcat’s AI Agents help enterprises: Accelerate time-to-market for global campaigns and increase revenue by simultaneously creating, translating, and localizing content. Reduce operational costs and manual effort by automating complex enterprise workflows with a diverse set of AI Agents tailored for any content type, in every language. Ensure high-quality, brand-consistent content and mitigate risk by capturing brand voice, terminology, and user feedback, continuously learning through human-in-the-loop workflows. Increase employee retention, satisfaction, and productivity with real-time performance support and tailored learning content and communications in their native languages.
Clarity AI acquires in-app climate engagement platform ecolytiq that analyzes real-time transaction data to quantify environmental footprints and delivers high-impact sustainability content, powered by behavioural science
Clarity AI has acquired ecolytiq to expand the capabilities of its AI-powered platform that helps individuals and organizations make more sustainable choices in their consumption and investments. ecolytiq’s platform, now part of Clarity AI’s suite, specializes in analyzing real-time transaction data to quantify environmental footprints and deliver high-impact sustainability content, powered by behavioural science and designed for measurable impact. Its white-label solutions have enabled banks and financial institutions across Europe and beyond to engage millions of consumers and business clients, fostering climate-positive behavior change through timely and compelling insights. By integrating ecolytiq’s consumer-centric platform, Clarity AI not only strengthens its consumer engagement capabilities, but also expands its reach as a comprehensive, tech-first sustainability provider. As part of the acquisition, Visa, which has a long-term partnership with ecolytiq, has become an investor and strategic partner of Clarity AI. David Lais, co-founder and managing director at ecolytiq, said that the acquisition supports the firm’s mission of helping individuals “drive positive climate impact at scale through their everyday purchasing decisions.”
Moveworks’s integration with Docusign enables employees to send, track, and manage agreements embedded with secure e-signature, directly within its marketplace for enterprise-ready AI agents, using simple, natural-language conversations
Moveworks has announced a strategic partnership with Docusign to let employees prepare, send, and manage agreements in seconds through natural-language conversations, eliminating manual bottlenecks. The integration will bring Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management capabilities to the Moveworks AI Agent Marketplace. The new Moveworks and Docusign integration, available now, enables employees to send, track, and manage agreements directly within Moveworks, using simple, conversational requests. Accessible from the Moveworks AI Agent Marketplace, a single hub for enterprise-ready AI agents, the Moveworks agents with Docusign IAM capabilities embed secure e-signature and agreement-workflow features in the employee’s flow of work. Whether onboarding new hires, routing approvals, or updating contracts, employees can now complete critical agreement tasks without switching apps or breaking focus. Key benefits of the Moveworks and Docusign integration: Accelerated approvals: Create, send, and sign documents in minutes, shaving days off traditional agreement cycles. Friction-free employee experience: Handle agreements from chat, email, or search inside Moveworks — no extra log-ins, no new UI to learn. Enterprise-grade trust and compliance: Docusign’s globally recognized security and audit trails combine with Moveworks’ AI governance for end-to-end protection.
Moveworks’s integration with Docusign enables employees to send, track, and manage agreements embedded with secure e-signature, directly within its marketplace for enterprise-ready AI agents, using simple, natural-language conversations
Moveworks has announced a strategic partnership with Docusign to let employees prepare, send, and manage agreements in seconds through natural-language conversations, eliminating manual bottlenecks. The integration will bring Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management capabilities to the Moveworks AI Agent Marketplace. The new Moveworks and Docusign integration, available now, enables employees to send, track, and manage agreements directly within Moveworks, using simple, conversational requests. Accessible from the Moveworks AI Agent Marketplace, a single hub for enterprise-ready AI agents, the Moveworks agents with Docusign IAM capabilities embed secure e-signature and agreement-workflow features in the employee’s flow of work. Whether onboarding new hires, routing approvals, or updating contracts, employees can now complete critical agreement tasks without switching apps or breaking focus. Key benefits of the Moveworks and Docusign integration: Accelerated approvals: Create, send, and sign documents in minutes, shaving days off traditional agreement cycles. Friction-free employee experience: Handle agreements from chat, email, or search inside Moveworks — no extra log-ins, no new UI to learn. Enterprise-grade trust and compliance: Docusign’s globally recognized security and audit trails combine with Moveworks’ AI governance for end-to-end protection.
Sumsub and Linea showcase new on-chain identity attestation- credentials are recorded publicly on-chain, they can be reused by any dApp within the ecosystem, helping drive seamless interoperability and a more connected user journey
Sumsub on-chain identity attestations are now live via Verax, as the global identity verification company works with Linea to improve the standards for blockchain identity verification. Users begin on the Linea Hub and they are then redirected to Sumsub to create a Sumsub ID, undergoing a fast and secure Liveness check to confirm they are a real human. After connecting their MetaMask wallet, an AML check is performed on the wallet address in the background, to ensure that sanctioned wallets are not able to use the service. Once verified, Sumsub issues an on-chain attestation to the user’s wallet using the Verax Attestation Service. This credential is recorded on the Linea blockchain and visible on its explorer. Users are then prompted to explore the Linea ecosystem of dApps using their newly verified wallet, with gas fee refunds processed according to offer terms. Linea is supporting the initiative through ensuring every user who creates an attestation will receive twenty free transactions on Linea. This new flow highlights how on-chain credentials, such as attestations confirming a user is a real human, can enhance Web3 experience and trust, by allowing to programmatically verify humanity and uniqueness in a web3-native programmatic way, while preserving privacy. As these credentials are recorded publicly on-chain, they can be reused by any dApp within the Linea ecosystem, helping drive seamless interoperability and a more connected user journey. The integration also aligns with the growing trend toward reusable digital identity, enabling frictionless access to multiple services while helping ecosystems scale securely.
iMerit is building expert-led, high-quality data for finetuning generative AI models through use of domain-specific experts for generating and evaluating problems for the model to solve and human-in-the-loop labelling
AI data platform iMerit believes the next step toward integrating AI tools at the enterprise level is not more data, but better data. The startup has quietly built itself into a trusted data annotation partner for companies working in computer vision, medical imaging, autonomous mobility, and other AI applications that require high-accuracy, human-in-the-loop labeling. Now, iMerit is bringing its Scholars program out of beta. The goal of the program is to build a growing workforce of experts to fine-tune generative AI models for enterprise applications and, increasingly, foundational models. iMerit doesn’t claim to replace Scale AI’s core offering of high-throughput, developer-focused “blitz data.” Instead, it’s betting that now is the right moment to double down on expert-led, high-quality data, the kind that requires deep human judgment and domain-specific oversight. iMerit’s experts are tasked with finetuning, or “tormenting,” enterprise and foundational AI models using the startup’s proprietary platform Ango Hub. Ango allows iMerit’s “Scholars” to interact with the customer’s model to generate and evaluate problems for the model to solve. For iMerritt, attracting and retaining cognitive experts is key to success because the experts aren’t just doing a few tasks and disappearing; they’re working on projects for multiple years. The goal is to grow across other enterprise applications, including finance and medicine.
Nymbus core system integrates Bud Financial’s transaction data enrichment and AI-driven insights tech supporting real-time affordability checks and dynamic risk profiling by analyzing actual income and spending behavior
Nymbus, a full-stack banking platform for U.S. banks and credit unions, has announced an agreement with Bud Financial, a leading provider of transaction data enrichment and AI-driven insights for the financial services industry. Nymbus will integrate Bud’s market-leading suite of personal financial management (PFM) widgets into the Nymbus Banking Platform, enhancing the digital banking experience and enabling smarter, more contextual customer engagement. The integration will provide customers with a clear and intuitive view of their finances, deliver proactive content and financial tools through Bud’s widgets, and tailor experiences across digital channels with categorized, contextual data. Nymbus Engage, a new customer engagement solution, will help community banks and credit unions activate data in smarter ways and drive more meaningful, long-term relationships. Bud has been a pioneer in applying AI to financial data since 2015, helping institutions turn raw transaction streams into structured, actionable insights. Engage – Personalized PFM: Banking clients embed Bud’s enriched data into their apps via widgets to deliver real-time, hyper-personalized financial experiences. Use cases include “left-to-spend” balances that account for upcoming bills, visualizations of spending habits such as weekend spikes or predicted future spending, and personalized nudges or actions like suggesting savings transfers or setting budgets around overspending categories. These insights are powered by Bud APIs combined with large language models (LLMs) to provide contextual, automated intelligence tailored to each customer journey. Drive – Portfolio Analytics & Marketing: Drive aggregates individual-level insights across the entire customer base, enabling banks to perform behavioral segmentation, detect deposit activity triggers, and identify churn risks. These insights integrate seamlessly with CRM systems such as Salesforce or Braze to enable data-driven marketing and relationship management. Assess – Credit & Cashflow Underwriting: Bud’s technology supports real-time affordability checks and dynamic risk profiling by analyzing actual income and spending behavior. This enables more accurate credit decisions and reduces default rates by grounding assessments in real cashflow data rather than static credit scores.
US phone carriers are rolling out blocking of unauthorized number port outs and wireless account locking for combating SIM swap attacks
To combat SIM swap attacks of impersonation and deception tactics, known as social engineering attacks, three major phone carriers in the United States — AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon — have introduced security features that make it more difficult for malicious hackers to deceptively get a customer’s account changed, such as porting out their phone number. In July, AT&T introduced its free Wireless Account Lock security feature to help prevent SIM swaps. The feature allows AT&T customers to add extra account protection by toggling on a setting that prevents anyone from moving a SIM card or phone number to another device or account. The feature can be switched on via AT&T’s app or through its online account portal by anyone who manages the account, so make sure that account is protected with a unique password and multi-factor authentication. T-Mobile allows customers to prevent SIM swaps and block unauthorized number port outs for free through their T-Mobile online account. The primary account holder will have to log in to change to the setting, such as switching it on or off. Verizon has two security features called SIM Protection and Number Lock, which prevent SIM swaps and phone number transfers, respectively. Both of these features can be turned on via the Verizon app and through the online account portal by an account’s owner or manager. Verizon says that switching off the feature may result in a 15-minute delay before any transactions can be performed — another safeguard to allow the legitimate account holder to reverse any account changes.
Android 16’s Advanced Protection features seek to secure mobile devices on Chrome by auto-enabling HTTPS for secure connections, disabling the optimizing Javascript compilers inside V8 and isolating malicious sites from accessing data or code from another website
With Android 16, users can enable Advanced Protection to “activate Google’s strongest security for mobile devices.” There are three main Advanced Protection features in Chrome 137+ on Android 16, starting with “Always use secure connections” — or HTTPS — being enabled. Before connecting to an insecure (HTTP) site, Chrome asks for explicit permission before loading. This setting protects users from attackers reading confidential data and injecting malicious content into otherwise innocuous webpages. The next feature disables the “higher-level optimizing Javascript compilers inside V8.” V8 is Chrome’s high-performance Javascript and WebAssembly engine. The optimizing compilers in V8 make certain websites run faster, however they historically also have been a source of known exploitation of Chrome. Of all the patched security bugs in V8 with known exploitation, disabling the optimizers would have mitigated ~50%. This prevents a large category of exploits, but at the expense of “causing performance issues for some websites.” Finally, Advanced Protection enables Site Isolation wherein Chrome “isolates each website into its own rendering OS process” in memory. This isolation prevents a malicious website from accessing data or code from another website, even if that malicious website manages to exploit a vulnerability in Chrome’s renderer—a second bug to escape the renderer sandbox is required to access other sites.