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Rising AI Costs Drive Software Developers to Open-Weight Models
September 21, 2026

A growing number of software companies are turning to open-weight artificial intelligence models, including Chinese ones, due to the cost of proprietary models from U.S. AI developers, Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. 21). Open-weight models are typically cheaper and enable firms to create their own models...

Artificial Intelligence
ISO 42001 May Become a Payments AI Governance Benchmark
September 21, 2026

Payments firms need a way to identify where artificial intelligence is being used and who’s responsible for it, as well as to monitor how those systems are managed over time. ISO/IEC 42001 puts a management framework around those systems, including AI a company buys rather...

Artificial Intelligence
MRH Trowe Lets Employees Build Their Own Agent Factory
September 21, 2026

Employees at insurance broker MRH Trowe wanted artificial intelligence to help with their daily work. Teams started trying AI tools on their own. That created a risk for the company. Sensitive client and insurance data could end up in software nobody at the firm controlled....

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The Best Enterprise AI System Is One CFOs Are Allowed to Use
September 21, 2026

The most important benchmark for the next phase of enterprise artificial intelligence isn’t arising around the model’s intelligence. Instead, the most important benchmark is around a model’s data retention policies. That is, if the news last week that companies as varied as Nvidia, Palantir, Booz...

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OpenAI Urges Global Guardrails on Autonomous AI Development
September 21, 2026

The United States should lead an international effort to develop global technical standards for frontier artificial intelligence, including recursive self-improvement (RSI), OpenAI said in a Monday (Sept. 21) article. RSI could result in humans losing control over AI development if this fully autonomous development of AI outpaces humans’...

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CFTC Examines Agentic AI’s Growing Role in Finance
September 21, 2026

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is hosting a series of roundtables devoted to new technologies in U.S. financial markets. The Frontier Forum series, hosted by the CFTC’s Innovation Task Force, will kick off next month with a discussion of artificial intelligence and agentic finance,...

Retail
Amazon Invests $1.9 Billion in Delivery Safety and Pay
September 21, 2026

Amazon will invest another $1.9 billion in its delivery service partner (DSP) program in 2027. This will help DSP’s boost delivery associate (DA) pay to a national average of nearly $24 per hour, Amazon said in its announcement Monday (Sept. 21). “Amazon’s safety investments and...

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DoorDash Gives 10,000 Employees an AI Data Analyst
September 21, 2026

A DoorDash employee who wants to know why orders dipped in California last week can put the question to an artificial intelligence agent called Vera. Questions like that have previously been the data team’s job. DoorDash built the agent for its own staff. It answers...

Investments
Coinbase Gives US Retail Traders Access to IPOs
September 21, 2026

Coinbase said it is expanding access to primary financial markets by bringing initial public offering (IPO) allocations to retail traders in the U.S. Starting with Oura’s IPO this week, eligible customers can request shares at the offer price before the beginning of open-market trading, the...