Character AI Files for Bankruptcy and Signs $20 Million Disney Deal

Character AI Files for Bankruptcy and Signs $20 Million Disney Deal
Character AI Files for Bankruptcy and Signs $20 Million Disney Deal
October 13, 2026  |  Business

Character AI has declared bankruptcy and agreed to sell some of its assets to Disney. The chatbot maker announced Tuesday (Oct. 13) that it had entered into a voluntary...

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Priority to Orchestrate NIL Payments for Notre Dame Athletes
Priority to Orchestrate NIL Payments for Notre Dame Athletes
October 13, 2026  |  Partnerships

Priority Commerce is teaming with Rally, a marketing and media group for Notre Dame student-athletes, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 13) news release. Priority will...

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Splitit Bets a White-Label Charge Card Can Make Mid-Sized Banks BNPL Contenders
Splitit Bets a White-Label Charge Card Can Make Mid-Sized Banks BNPL Contenders
October 13, 2026  |  BNPL

Watch more: Need to Know with Splitit’s Nandan Sheth In 1949, a businessman named Frank McNamara finished dinner at a New York restaurant and realized...

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Visa Receives Clearance to Bring Card Business to China
Visa Receives Clearance to Bring Card Business to China
October 13, 2026  |  Credit Cards

Visa has been granted permission from China to bring its card business to that country. The American payments giant announced Tuesday (Oct. 13) that the...

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Banking Regulators Tighten Oversight of Possible AI Risks
Banking Regulators Tighten Oversight of Possible AI Risks
October 13, 2026  |  Banking

Banking watchdogs are reportedly ramping up efforts to control increasing risks from artificial intelligence (AI). This heightened oversight is being driven in part by the...

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Labor Shortages and Persistent Inflation Batter Small Business Optimism
Labor Shortages and Persistent Inflation Batter Small Business Optimism
October 13, 2026  |  SMBs

Small business optimism dipped in September as concerns about “labor quality or availability” rose, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) said in a Tuesday (Oct. 13)...

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Treasury’s Next Big Challenge Is Connecting the Systems It Already Has
Treasury’s Next Big Challenge Is Connecting the Systems It Already Has
October 13, 2026  |  Cross-border Payments

Watch more: Need to Know with Bank of America’s Daniel Stanton Companies have upgraded their treasury systems while the payment networks, banks and data they...

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Paymentology Says AI Agents Must Earn the Right to Move Money
Paymentology Says AI Agents Must Earn the Right to Move Money
October 13, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments | Paymentology | Tim Joslyn Payments infrastructure has become an expert at answering questions centered on human behavior. Is...

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Entrust Says Millions of AI Agents Will Test the Limits of Enterprise Controls
Entrust Says Millions of AI Agents Will Test the Limits of Enterprise Controls
October 13, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: Building a Trusted Foundation for Agentic AI Companies have spent the past several years making it possible for employees to safely use artificial...

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