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.

Agentic Credit Helps Banks See Stability Behind Uneven Income

Agentic Credit Helps Banks See Stability Behind Uneven Income
Agentic Credit Helps Banks See Stability Behind Uneven Income
June 29, 2026  |  Consumer Finance

For decades, lenders have treated employment as a proxy for stability. But more Americans are piecing together income from hourly work, contract jobs, commissions and...

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Anthropic Gives California Government a Discount on Claude
Anthropic Gives California Government a Discount on Claude
June 29, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic will reportedly give California government workers expanded, discounted use of its Claude AI products. The new arrangement follows a deal between the artificial intelligence...

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Wedbush Says Missing ROI Metrics Threaten Further Enterprise AI Deployment
Wedbush Says Missing ROI Metrics Threaten Further Enterprise AI Deployment
June 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Many enterprises have not developed a way to determine whether they have gained a good return on investment on the artificial intelligence (AI) tools they...

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BMW’s AI Runs 16 Billion Daily Requests and 600 Use Cases
BMW’s AI Runs 16 Billion Daily Requests and 600 Use Cases
June 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Every time a BMW driver locks their car remotely, checks their battery level, receives a navigation update or gets a software fix pushed over the...

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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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