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Artificial Intelligence
Binance Debuts AI Tool to Boost Customer Crypto IQ
October 05, 2026

Binance introduced Binance Intelligence, an artificial intelligence product stack designed to bridge the gap in digital asset knowledge between market professionals and day-to-day customers, according to a Monday (Oct. 5) press release. “For nine years, Binance has used blockchain to make finance more open, global...

Artificial Intelligence
AI Agents Expand Cyber Liability, Putting Corporate Safeguards in Focus
October 05, 2026

Companies deploying artificial intelligence agents face a cybersecurity challenge that extends beyond protecting their own systems. A compromised agent could become a vehicle for attacking customers, suppliers and other business partners, exposing its operator to broader legal and financial consequences. An analysis published Monday (Oct....

Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Helps Albertsons Expand Its AI-Powered Grocery Offerings
October 05, 2026

Grocery giant Albertsons has teamed with OpenAI to enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings for shoppers and employees. “Digital shopping, store operations, fulfillment, merchandising and customer experience all depend on systems that teams continually build, test and improve,” OpenAI said in a blog post announcing the partnership last week. “Albertsons Cos....

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Constructor Teams With Stripe to Debut Agentic Checkout Tool
October 05, 2026

Product discovery platform Constructor has introduced a new Stripe-integrated agentic commerce offering. Agentic Checkout, announced in a Monday (Oct. 5) news release, is designed to allow both human shoppers and artificial intelligence (AI) agents to find and purchase products within one agent conversation and interface. “More and more shoppers...

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AI Targets Trade Finance’s Paperwork Bottleneck
October 05, 2026

Artificial intelligence is being harnessed to tackle the document review that determines whether a transaction moves forward, one of the most manual parts of trade finance. Software has long been able to scan documents and extract data. But a spate of initiatives show how AI...

Investments
Valon Hits $2.3 Billion Valuation as Mortgage Servicers Swap Mainframes for AI
October 05, 2026

Valon Technologies raised $150 million in a Series D funding round to accelerate the deployment of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for mortgage servicing, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release. The round doubled Valon’s valuation to $2.3 billion, according to the release....

Cross-border Payments
Small Businesses Skip the Cross-Border Plumbing Big Companies Can’t Escape
October 05, 2026

Conventional wisdom says large corporations should dominate cross-border payments. They have global banks, treasury teams, negotiated FX rates, sophisticated treasury management system (TMS) platforms and local accounts. But the 2026 payments infrastructure may be creating a strange inversion where a small business can get a...

Artificial Intelligence
Physical AI Builder RobCo Doubles Valuation to $1 Billion
October 05, 2026

RobCo, a builder of autonomous industrial robotics, topped a $1 billion valuation in an employee secondary share sale, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release. RobCo’s new valuation is double the one it achieved nine months ago, according to the release. At...

Artificial Intelligence
Businesses Finding It Harder to Predict AI Spending
October 05, 2026

Companies are reportedly finding it increasingly difficult to forecast their AI spending. That’s according to a report Monday (Oct. 5) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which cites one recent study showing that just 11% of almost 400 surveyed businesses could accurately project their artificial intelligence (AI)...