This Week in Stablecoins: Crypto That Never Touches the Customer

This Week in Stablecoins: Crypto That Never Touches the Customer
This Week in Stablecoins: Crypto That Never Touches the Customer
August 21, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Stablecoins five years ago represented a new form of money looking for a reason to exist. This week offered a different picture. The reason for...

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AI Jobs Are Booming for Gen Z, Not Everyone
AI Jobs Are Booming for Gen Z, Not Everyone
August 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence has not been around long enough to reward seniority the way most fields do, and that gap is starting to show up in...

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Grassroots Backlash Forces Big Tech to Rewrite Data Center Playbook
Grassroots Backlash Forces Big Tech to Rewrite Data Center Playbook
August 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Grassroots resistance to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is accomplishing what policymakers have largely failed to do: forcing technology companies, utilities and elected officials to...

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Walmart Tap to Pay Rollout Begins Monday
Walmart Tap to Pay Rollout Begins Monday
August 21, 2026  |  Payment Methods

Walmart will soon begin rolling out tap to pay as a payment option at Walmart and Sam’s Club locations, the company said in a Friday...

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European Consumers’ Inflation Expectations Ease Despite Middle East War Uncertainty
European Consumers’ Inflation Expectations Ease Despite Middle East War Uncertainty
August 21, 2026  |  Economy

European consumers’ inflation expectations inched down in July, the European Central Bank said in a Friday (Aug. 21) press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

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Retailers Find Bigger Growth Selling Ads Around the Shopping Cart
Retailers Find Bigger Growth Selling Ads Around the Shopping Cart
August 21, 2026  |  Retail

Retail media is giving Walmart, Target and Amazon a faster-growing source of revenue than their core retail businesses, built on the same traffic, searches and...

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CFTC Roundtable Exposes Regulatory Rift Over Prediction-Market Risks
CFTC Roundtable Exposes Regulatory Rift Over Prediction-Market Risks
August 21, 2026  |  Markets

Prediction-market executives clashed Thursday (Aug. 20) over how regulators should police manipulation and insider trading, exposing a widening divide between established derivatives exchanges and newer...

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Instant Payments Unlock Working Capital by Allowing Treasury to Pay Later
Instant Payments Unlock Working Capital by Allowing Treasury to Pay Later
August 21, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

The unexpected advantage of instant transactions for B2B firms is not faster payment but removing settlement float from payment terms. Get the Full Story Complete...

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Robotics AI Firm Dexmal Seeks $3 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round
Robotics AI Firm Dexmal Seeks $3 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round
August 21, 2026  |  Investments

Dexmal, a Chinese firm developing embodied artificial intelligence to control robots, is seeking a valuation of 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) in a funding round,...

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