Tag: Embrace

  • One Year After Assad’s Ouster: Syrians Reflect on Pain and Embrace Freedom

    One Year After Assad’s Ouster: Syrians Reflect on Pain and Embrace Freedom

    Damascus, Syria  —  “Raise your head up high, you’re a free Syrian” goes the chorus of the Arabic song that has become the unofficial anthem of the new Syria. It’s everywhere in the capital Damascus – blasted out from loudspeakers in the markets, chanted at celebrations in the main square and even sung by the…

  • Why CFOs Should Embrace AI Innovation Now

    Why CFOs Should Embrace AI Innovation Now

    Good morning. For CFOs, using the words “uncertainty” and “unprecedented” has become second nature this year. “There’s a bit of fatigue from uncertainty right now,” Yuval Atsmon, CFO of McKinsey, told me when we met in Washington, D.C., to discuss how finance chiefs navigated 2025 and the impact of AI. He often hears some executives…

  • Large Corporations Embrace Agentic AI in Payment Systems

    Large Corporations Embrace Agentic AI in Payment Systems

    Agentic AI has the potential to reshape the payments landscape. It refers to autonomous systems that can work together toward a goal. They learn to make decisions that spark actions and adapt to situations based on their programming and data gathering. This is different from generative AI, which pulls in content based on prompts but…

  • Big Corporations Embrace Autonomous AI in Payment Systems

    Big Corporations Embrace Autonomous AI in Payment Systems

    Agentic AI has the potential to reshape the payments landscape. It refers to autonomous systems that can work together toward a goal. They learn to make decisions that spark actions and adapt to situations based on their programming and data gathering. This is different from generative AI, which pulls in content based on prompts but…

  • AI Adoption in Shopping: 60% of UK Consumers Embrace Technology

    AI Adoption in Shopping: 60% of UK Consumers Embrace Technology

    More than 60 per cent of consumers in the UK are using or have used AI when shopping, with 53 per cent doing so often. However, over two-thirds (68 per cent) could not name a single AI shopping experience that impressed them, according to Retail Tech Reality Check, a new report released by CI&T, a…