Instinct Nears $2.5 Billion Valuation as AI Assistants Take Over Daily Chores

Instinct Nears $2.5 Billion Valuation as AI Assistants Take Over Daily Chores
Instinct Nears $2.5 Billion Valuation as AI Assistants Take Over Daily Chores
August 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Instinct, the developer of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant that seems to be gaining traction among early adopters, is raising a $250 million Series B...

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Anthropic Escalates Cloud Spending With $45 Billion Nscale Agreement
Anthropic Escalates Cloud Spending With $45 Billion Nscale Agreement
August 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic has agreed to pay $45 billion to rent cloud computing power from neocloud company Nscale’s West Virginia data center, which is set to start...

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Open Finance Exposes the Limits of the Primary Account
Open Finance Exposes the Limits of the Primary Account
August 26, 2026  |  Banking

A primary financial relationship loses some of its value when the provider can see only a fraction of the customer’s money. Get the Full Story...

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X9 Wants Fraud Data to Move as Fast as Money
X9 Wants Fraud Data to Move as Fast as Money
August 26, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

The U.S. payments industry does not lack fraud data. It lacks agreement about what that data means. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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39 State Bankers Groups Join Forces to Build Blockchain Network
39 State Bankers Groups Join Forces to Build Blockchain Network
August 26, 2026  |  Blockchain

Thirty-nine state bankers associations have formed an organization dedicated to creating a blockchain network that will be owned, designed and governed by the industry. Get...

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Hotel Pricing AI Software Faces Test After Court Revives Atlantic City Case
Hotel Pricing AI Software Faces Test After Court Revives Atlantic City Case
August 26, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

Picture a hotel handing its private pricing data to a computer program, while the hotel across the street is feeding its own numbers into that...

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CISA Shares Federal Cyber Guidance With Critical Infrastructure Companies
CISA Shares Federal Cyber Guidance With Critical Infrastructure Companies
August 26, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a guide to network monitoring that it said was developed for federal agencies but can...

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Apple to Debut Foldable iPhone as New CEO Takes Reins
Apple to Debut Foldable iPhone as New CEO Takes Reins
August 26, 2026  |  Apple

Starting next week, Apple will have a new CEO: company hardware chief John Ternus. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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This AI Agent Ends Subscriptions Without a Phone Call
This AI Agent Ends Subscriptions Without a Phone Call
August 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Most personal finance apps have worked the same way for years: a dashboard showing what a consumer spent. The actual decision, whether to cancel a...

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