Sara Castellanos

Visa said it has developed a more advanced artificial intelligence system that can approve or decline credit and debit transactions on behalf of banks whose own networks are down.

Tim Langley-Hawthorne is one of a number of IT leaders working to improve remote workplace culture as Covid-19 distancing becomes a way of life.

L’Oréal is attracting new customers and making new sales through e-commerce initiatives it has recently spearheaded to mitigate the effects of bricks-and-mortar store closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The president-elect has proposed innovation funding of $300 billion over four years, in part to remain competitive with China.

The engine maker is equipping some engineers with AI tools to speed up the process of designing and testing jet engines.

The device, mounted on wheelchairs and powered by technology that imitates the way the human brain works, could provide patients new levels of independence

Pfizer developed dashboards to monitor the effect of Covid-19 on clinical trials in real time

The new hybrid way of working in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, with some employees at home and some at the office, will force technology leaders to think more strategically about workplace culture, said Chris Bedi, CIO at ServiceNow.

Tech giant is one of many companies racing to build a business around the nascent technology.

Formlabs, a 3-D printing company that helped healthcare companies address medical-supply shortages during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, has raised $150 million in investor funding led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2.

The giant Japanese tech investor has taken a large stake in the Maryland start-up to eventually bring quantum-computing power to other SoftBank portfolio companies.

Goodyear Tire and Rubber and Bridgestone are rolling out new intelligent tire features that use sensors and artificial intelligence for vehicles delivering packages from e-commerce sites.

Technology leaders at Realogy, Compass and Zillow hope to augment human savvy with algorithms.

Intel, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are offering or building artificial-intelligence-based tools that can find and fix software problems.

The Pentagon’s decision to drop a Microsoft contract in favor of plans to hire multiple cloud vendors is an IT strategy embraced by the private sector.

The bank is hiring 3,000 technologists this year, about 1,000 more than in previous years, partly because of its move to Amazon’s cloud.

American Express experiments with AI-generated fake fraud patterns to sharpen its models’ ability to detect rare or uncommon swindles.

The real-estate and investment management services firm known as JLL said it plans to use New York-based Skyline AI’s technology to help clients predict future property values, identify new investment opportunities and decide when to raise rent, renovate or sell, among other business decisions.

The immersive technology reveals clues about how compounds might work, with the aim of speeding up the drug-discovery process.

Wells Fargo unveiled a decadelong initiative to update its digital infrastructure in part by moving its workloads to cloud services from Microsoft and Google—the latest large bank to make a significant bet on the public cloud.