Connected Economy

The innovations in technology, connected devices, software, payments and cellular technology make it possible for people and businesses to connect with each other and do business via any device, an in any digital or physical location safely, securely, and in real time. This integration of the digital and physical worlds will transform the economy across the ten pillars that today represent its key cornerstones – pillars that are already experiencing the impact of disruptive innovation as new blended, digital-first experience-driven ecosystems are now taking shape.

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Running 29 Million Fake Queries to Clone Claude
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Running 29 Million Fake Queries to Clone Claude
June 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Training a frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model costs billions of dollars and years of research. Reproducing much of its behavior can cost a fraction of...

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OpenAI Restricts Access to Latest AI Models at US Government Request
OpenAI Restricts Access to Latest AI Models at US Government Request
June 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI said Friday (June 26) that it is limiting the release of its new GPT-5.6 series artificial intelligence (AI) models to a small group of...

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Quantifind Secures $200 Million to Scale AI-Native Risk Intelligence Platform
Quantifind Secures $200 Million to Scale AI-Native Risk Intelligence Platform
June 26, 2026  |  Investments

Quantifind has secured a $200 million growth investment to accelerate the international expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI)-native risk intelligence platform for financial crime prevention....

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Firms Discover AI’s Limit Is Infrastructure
Firms Discover AI’s Limit Is Infrastructure
June 26, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Maverick Payments’ Ben Griefer As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes nearly every corner of financial services, the payments industry...

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Goldman Sachs Says AI Will Eliminate 15 Million US Jobs
Goldman Sachs Says AI Will Eliminate 15 Million US Jobs
June 25, 2026  |  Economy

Goldman Sachs has increased its estimate of the share of U.S. jobs that could be displaced by generative artificial intelligence (AI) from the previous 6-7%...

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Medicare Tests AI Prior Authorization in Six States
Medicare Tests AI Prior Authorization in Six States
June 25, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the WISeR Model in January, short for Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction Model, with the aim...

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Salesforce Pushes AI Into the Fulfillment Decisions Payments Can’t See
Salesforce Pushes AI Into the Fulfillment Decisions Payments Can’t See
June 25, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Salesforce on Wednesday (June 24) launched Agentic Order Management, a system that lets retailers control fulfillment through plain-language instructions instead of code or manual rule-setting....

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AI Is Now the Threat Banks Must Plan Around
AI Is Now the Threat Banks Must Plan Around
June 24, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

The world’s top intelligence agencies warned that artificial intelligence (AI) is making cyberattacks faster, cheaper and harder to stop—and banks are in the crosshairs. The...

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Google Wallet Cuts Airport Security Friction via TSA Integration
Google Wallet Cuts Airport Security Friction via TSA Integration
June 24, 2026  |  Transportation

Google Wallet is rolling out a new integration that will make it easier to participate in the Transportation Security Administration’s TSA PreCheck Touchless ID program. With this integration,...

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