{"id":1003660,"date":"2026-04-18T11:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003660"},"modified":"2026-04-18T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:32:07","slug":"amercian-express-to-buy-altman-backed-hyper-in-push-for-ai-powered-expense-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/amercian-express-to-buy-altman-backed-hyper-in-push-for-ai-powered-expense-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Amercian Express to buy Altman-backed Hyper in push for AI-powered expense tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit card giant American Express said on Thursday it would buy Hyper, an artificial intelligence-focused expense management startup backed by OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman. <\/p>\n<p>The deal underscores how large financial firms are racing to bring AI into \u200ccore business \u2060software, \u2060especially in areas such as expense management where manual work, \u200bcompliance checks and repetitive approvals can be automated. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter \u200bto shareholders last month, AmEx CEO Stephen Squeri said AI was creating a &#8220;structural shift&#8221; in how businesses \u200boperate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit card giant American Express said on Thursday it would buy Hyper, an artificial intelligence-focused expense management startup backed by OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman. The deal underscores how large financial firms are racing to bring AI into \u200ccore business \u2060software, \u2060especially in areas such as expense management where manual work, \u200bcompliance checks and repetitive approvals can be automated. In a letter \u200bto shareholders last month, AmEx CEO Stephen Squeri said AI was creating a &#8220;structural shift&#8221; in how businesses \u200boperate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}