digital transformation

AI Agents Can Make Cross-Border Payments Faster, But Not Fix Why They Fail
AI Agents Can Make Cross-Border Payments Faster, But Not Fix Why They Fail
October 09, 2026  |  Cross-border Payments

Moving money across borders may be one of the last steps in an international payment. Getting the money ready to move can take considerably longer....

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Walmart Says It Prices ‘Products, Not People’ as Amazon Rolls Out Deals
Walmart Says It Prices ‘Products, Not People’ as Amazon Rolls Out Deals
October 08, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon spent the week telling shoppers how much they could save. Walmart spent part of it explaining why consumers shouldn’t worry about how their prices...

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AI Agents Wake Up $1.6 Trillion in Sleepy Bank Deposits
AI Agents Wake Up $1.6 Trillion in Sleepy Bank Deposits
October 08, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo hold about $1.6 trillion in deposits that pay no interest, the Financial Times reported. That money tends...

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Mastercard and SoFi Tech Solutions Help Orbi Launch Crypto Card in Mexico
Mastercard and SoFi Tech Solutions Help Orbi Launch Crypto Card in Mexico
October 08, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Mastercard and SoFi Tech Solutions teamed to help Mexican FinTech Orbi introduce a cryptocurrency-linked card program, according to a Thursday (Oct. 8) news release. The...

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OpenAI Enables ChatGPT to Answer With Visuals and Interactive Experiences
OpenAI Enables ChatGPT to Answer With Visuals and Interactive Experiences
October 07, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT is getting a new user interface that enables it to include text, visuals and interactive elements in its responses to users’ questions, OpenAI said in a Wednesday (Oct. 7) press...

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Lambda Targets $14.5 Billion Valuation in Final Pre-IPO Round
Lambda Targets $14.5 Billion Valuation in Final Pre-IPO Round
October 06, 2026  |  Investments

Cloud computing company Lambda is raising as much as $4 billion in a funding round that will value the company at $14.5 billion, excluding the money raised,...

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AI Power Users Spend Like Small Businesses
AI Power Users Spend Like Small Businesses
October 06, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a mainstream consumer technology. But paying for it remains a much narrower habit. The consumers who do spend heavily on...

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Toast Deploys AI Labor Management Tools for Restaurateurs
Toast Deploys AI Labor Management Tools for Restaurateurs
October 06, 2026  |  ResTech

Toast has added a new labor management solution to its global technology platform for restaurant and retail operators, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. The...

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How CFOs Are Building Approval Controls Finance Agents Can’t Break
How CFOs Are Building Approval Controls Finance Agents Can’t Break
October 06, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The biggest financial risk from an artificial intelligence agent won’t come from it making numbers up. It will likely come from an agent that does...

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