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Artificial Intelligence
Dataline Secures $10 Million to Expand Agent Data Marketplace
November 01, 2026

Dataline raised $10.6 million in a funding round to grow its decentralized data network for artificial intelligence agents, the company said in a Saturday (Oct. 31) press release. The network provides a two-sided marketplace for agent-payable data in which anyone can publish a feed, and...

Artificial Intelligence
Google Cloud Launches Free AI Courses for Financial Services and Legal Teams
November 01, 2026

Google‘s learning platform focused on artificial intelligence skills, Google Skills, has launched new Gemini courses for financial services and legal teams, Google Cloud said in a Friday (Oct. 30) blog post. These new, separate products are industry specific and include bundles of videos for learning,...

Artificial Intelligence
Meta Partners With Chinese Robotics Firm to Test Consumer Robots
November 01, 2026

Meta is collaborating with Chinese robotics company Fourier to develop humanoid prototypes for future products that would perform housework and other everyday tasks for consumers, The Information reported Saturday (Oct. 31), citing unnamed sources. Meta and Fourier already developed one humanoid prototype called Max that...

IPO
OPay Halts $4 Billion NYSE IPO on Listing Day
November 01, 2026

OPay, a digital financial platform built for emerging markets, has decided to postpone its planned initial public offering due to “an ongoing inquiry by a regulatory authority,” the company said in a public statement shared Saturday (Oct. 31) in post on X. OPay had been...

Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Cuts Funding Target by $10 Billion as Investor Jitters Shake AI Markets
November 01, 2026

OpenAI has cut the target for its current funding round from $30 billion to $20 billion amid investor concerns about the artificial intelligence market, The Financial Times reported Friday (Oct. 30), citing unnamed sources. The company is seeking to raise the funding at a valuation...

Retail
Luxury Mystery Boxes Turn Shopping Into a $500 Surprise
October 31, 2026

Luxury shopping has developed a new answer to “What did you buy?” “I’ll know in a moment.” Beezie, a platform that combines collectibles with digital ownership, said in an Oct. 1 press release that its first luxury mystery box offering sold all 500 authenticated items...

Artificial Intelligence
Samsung Warns AI Memory Shortage Will Worsen Through 2027
October 30, 2026

Samsung expects the demand for memory to “far exceed” supply in 2027, the company said in a Thursday (Oct. 29) press release announcing its third quarter financial results. That demand will be driven by companies’ capital expenditure on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, which Samsung expects to reach...

Banking
Scotiabank Wins Fed Approval to Buy Oklahoma-Based MapleMark Bank
October 30, 2026

The Federal Reserve Board approved the application by the Bank of Nova Scotia to become a bank holding company by acquiring Dallas, Texas-based Maple Financial Holdings and thereby indirectly acquiring Tulsa, Oklahoma-based MapleMark Bank, the Fed said in a Thursday (Oct. 29) press release. Bank...

Retail
Revolve Lifts Revenue per Visit By 50% With AI-Personalized Landing Pages
October 30, 2026

A shopper who clicked a Revolve ad used to land on the same brand or category page as everyone else, whatever the ad showed. The fashion retailer now uses artificial intelligence (AI) to build a landing page for each click. In A/B tests, those pages...