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.

Google Wants Ads to Talk Back in AI Search

Google Wants Ads to Talk Back in AI Search
Google Wants Ads to Talk Back in AI Search
May 26, 2026  |  News

Searching for something online used to mean typing a few words and scanning a list of links. Google’s replacing that with a conversation and monetizing...

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The Three Things Now Define Retail’s Best Customers
The Three Things Now Define Retail’s Best Customers
May 26, 2026  |  Retail

Retail has long worked from the straightforward assumption that customers who visit more often and spend more each trip deserve the most attention. That logic...

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AI Spots Hard Hat Violations Before Supervisors Do
AI Spots Hard Hat Violations Before Supervisors Do
May 22, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Construction employs roughly 8% of the private-sector workforce and accounts for about one in five of its fatalities. That ratio has persisted for decades. The...

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Quantum and AI Are Breaking Trust Everywhere at Once
Quantum and AI Are Breaking Trust Everywhere at Once
May 22, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

The Connected Economy has relied on a few supposedly stable assumptions as it scaled. One of the most crucial was that if systems could authenticate...

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Mortgage Underwriters Get an AI Agent Assist
Mortgage Underwriters Get an AI Agent Assist
May 22, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A mortgage application used to mean waiting. At TD Bank, pre-adjudication averaged roughly 15 hours before a human underwriter could open the file. That window...

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Salesforce CEO Defends AI Ads as Standard Tech Marketing
Salesforce CEO Defends AI Ads as Standard Tech Marketing
May 22, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Salesforce is promoting in its marketing content artificial intelligence (AI) features that are not yet fully deployed by its clients, Bloomberg reported Friday (May 22). For...

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House Hearing Puts AI Fraud at Center of AML Overhaul
House Hearing Puts AI Fraud at Center of AML Overhaul
May 21, 2026  |  AML

Criminals are not waiting for regulators to modernize anti-money laundering rules, and that asymmetry shaped a House hearing that exposed a larger divide than where...

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OpenEvidence Brings Hands-Free Medical AI to 860,000 Clinicians
OpenEvidence Brings Hands-Free Medical AI to 860,000 Clinicians
May 21, 2026  |  Healthcare

A physician’s day is a stack of interruptions: patient calls come in on personal phones, notes get typed after hours, documentation tools sit in one tab and medical...

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