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Retail
Toast Courts Convenience Stores With Fuel Platform
September 29, 2026

Restaurant and retail digital technology platform Toast debuted Toast Fuel, new capabilities for gas stations and convenience stores, according to a Tuesday (Sept. 29) press release. Toast Fuel gives operators a single and connected platform for in-store and at-the-pump fuel payments as well as retail...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Co-Founders Lock In 50.1% Voting Control via Founder LLC
September 29, 2026

Anthropic is creating a Founder LLC vehicle that will be composed of the company’s seven co-founders and will focus on stewarding the firm’s mission even when it conflicts with market forces, Reuters reported Monday (Sept. 28), citing a copy of Anthropic’s IPO filing. A single...

Artificial Intelligence
Finastra Deploys AI to Help Banks Tackle Payment Processing Issues
September 29, 2026

Finastra launched a new artificial intelligence-powered capability designed to help banks resolve payment processing issues faster, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 29) press release. The new Repair Recommendations capability is now available within Finastra’s AI OperatorAssist, a cloud-native, generative AI-powered solution designed to...

Artificial Intelligence
AppFolio Debuts AI Upgrades to Real Estate Tech Platform
September 29, 2026

Real estate technology company AppFolio has introduced new artificial intelligence (AI)-focused upgrades to its platform. The updates, announced Tuesday (Sept. 29) at the company’s annual FUTURE conference, are centered around AppFolio Realm-X and the AppFolio Performance Platform. “The Performance Platform already holds each customer’s permissions, policies, workflows,...

Artificial Intelligence
5 Things CFOs and CISOs Need to Know About Nvidia’s AI Safety Push
September 29, 2026

The next enterprise artificial intelligence breakthrough could be the ability to stop an AI agent before it makes an expensive mistake. Or a hundred of them all at once. Nvidia’s newly launched Open Agent Safety Platform, announced Monday (Sept. 28), brings that distinction into sharper...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic’s IPO Filing Puts a $518 Billion Price Tag on AI Ambition
September 29, 2026

Artificial intelligence’s most anticipated initial public offering (IPO) prospectus puts numbers to a company the market has only been able to guess at. Anthropic has raised more than $125 billion privately since its founding five years ago, and the filing is the first look at...

Wearables
Oura Halts Plans to Go Public Amid Market Uncertainty
September 29, 2026

Smart ring maker Oura has paused plans to go public, citing uncertain market conditions. The company’s initial public offering (IPO) had been slated for this week but has now been postponed “despite strong demand,” Oura announced Tuesday (Sept. 29). “Our mission is to empower people to live healthier, longer,...

Artificial Intelligence
P&G Takes Its AI Scrap Killer Global
September 29, 2026

Procter & Gamble is expanding an artificial intelligence (AI) quality inspection system across its manufacturing operations worldwide, turning a tool that proved itself on individual lines into standard equipment for the whole company. The system, built with Siemens, inspects every product in real time at...

Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Shelves New Model Due to Safety Worries
September 29, 2026

OpenAI is reportedly cancelling the release of its next AI model due to safety concerns. That’s according to a report Monday (Sept. 28) by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which calls this one of the clearest indicators to date that agentic AI troubles could slow...