Reading Time: 6 minutesOver the last few years, there’s been a lot of talk about and experimentation with scroll-driven animations. It’s a very shiny feature for sure, and as soon as it’s supported in Firefox (without a flag), it’ll be baseline. It’s part of Interop 2026, so that should be relatively soon. Essentially, scroll-driven animations tie an animation […]
Palantir AI to support UK finance operations
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK authorities believe improving efficiency across national finance operations requires applying AI platforms from vendors like Palantir. The country’s financial regulator, the FCA, has initiated a project leveraging AI to identify illicit activities. The FCA is currently testing the Foundry platform from Miami-based software vendor Palantir. This three-month pilot costs upwards of £30,000 per week […]
5 use cases for conversational AI in banking with the fastest ROI
Reading Time: 8 minutesLearn how conversational AI helps banks meet rising customer expectations and regulatory demands without adding headcount. Banking customers expect instant answers about their accounts on any channel at any hour. Regulators require complete records of every conversation, decision, and data touch. Traditional contact center models can’t scale to meet both demands without ballooning costs. Conversational […]
How to implement and scale retail AI solutions: 2026 guide
Reading Time: 9 minutesA practical guide to choosing, deploying, and scaling AI initiatives that deliver measurable impact on revenue, costs, and customer satisfaction. Your leadership team wants proof that AI drives revenue, cuts costs, and elevates customer experience. But your tech stack, legacy systems, and compliance requirements make every deployment feel like a minefield. The difference between a […]
AI voice agent vs. chatbot: Which is right for your business in 2026?
Reading Time: 9 minutesOrganizations are shifting from text-based chatbots to voice-enabled AI agents as customer expectations for seamless, natural interactions continue to rise. This evolution reflects a broader trend: 14% of organizations currently prefer to interact with digital workers via voice, a number expected to grow to 23% within two years, signaling both trust in the technology and […]
JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring
Reading Time: 13 minutesEditor’s note: Mat Marquis and Andy Bell have released JavaScript for Everyone, an online course offered exclusively at Piccalilli. This post is an excerpt from the course taken specifically from a chapter all about JavaScript destructuring. We’re publishing it here because we believe in this material and want to encourage folks like yourself to sign […]
Visa prepares payment systems for AI agent-initiated transactions
Reading Time: 3 minutesPayments rely on a simple model: a person decides to buy something, and a bank or card network processes the transaction. That model is starting to change as Visa tests how AI agents can initiate payments. New work in the banking sector suggests that, in some cases, software agents may soon take on that role. […]
NVIDIA wants enterprise AI agents safer to deploy
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe NVIDIA Agent Toolkit is Jensen Huang’s answer to the question enterprises keep asking: how do we put AI agents to work without losing control of our data and our liability? Announced at GTC 2026 in San Jose on March 16, the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit is an open-source software stack designed to help enterprises and […]
Mastercard keeps tabs on fraud with new foundation model
Reading Time: 4 minutesMastercard has developed a large tabular model (an LTM as opposed to an LLM) that’s trained on transaction data rather than text or images to help it address security and authenticity issues in digital payments. The company has trained a foundation model on billions of card transactions, with the intention of expanding to hundreds of […]
For effective AI, insurance needs to get its data house in order
Reading Time: 3 minutesA report from Autorek, a provider of AI solutions to the insurance industry has produced a report that describes operational drag in companies’ internal processes that not only affect overall efficiency but cause an impediment to the effective implementation of AI in insurance concerns. Insurance Operations & Financial Transformation 2026 [email wall] draws from a […]
7 patient engagement strategies for enterprise healthcare leaders (2026)
Reading Time: 9 minutesLearn how to build patient engagement that reduces no-shows, streamlines operations, and improves margins. Your patients expect Amazon-level convenience, and your board expects better margins. But your staff can’t deliver on either without the right infrastructure. Fragmented communication channels and siloed data frustrate your patients, burn out your teams, cost you revenue, and tank your […]
How to optimize your financial services call center for compliance
Reading Time: 11 minutesLearn how unified communications, voice-first AI, and conversation intelligence help strengthen compliance, reduce risk, and deliver better customer experiences. Every financial services call either builds trust or creates risk. Customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and cost pressures are constant—and navigating them on legacy systems slows everything down. Replacing these systems with the right technology, processes, and […]
Trustpilot partners with AI companies as traditional search declines
Reading Time: 3 minutesTrustpilot is reported to be pursuing partnerships with large eCommerce companies as AI-driven shopping gains traction. In an interview with Bloomberg News [paywall], chief executive Adrian Blair said that AI agents acting on behalf of consumers require lots of information about the businesses they’re willing to interact with. He said the most effective systems will […]
Goldman Sachs sees AI investment shift to data centres
Reading Time: 3 minutesArtificial intelligence investment is entering a more selective phase as companies and investors look beyond early excitement and focus on the data centre infrastructure required to run AI systems. Recent analysis from Goldman Sachs suggests the market is moving toward what the firm describes as a “flight to quality.” In practice, investors are paying closer […]
US Treasury publishes AI risk Guidebook for financial institutions
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe US Treasury has published several documents designed for the US financial services sector that suggest a structured approach to managing AI risks in operations and policy (see subheading ‘Resources and Downloads’ towards the bottom of the link). The CRI Financial Services AI Risk Management Framework (FS AI RMF) comes with a Guidebook [.docx] which […]