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Love, Lust and Loose Screws: The Weekender’s 10 Best AI Movies of the Past 20 Years

Love, Lust and Loose Screws: The Weekender’s 10 Best AI Movies of the Past 20 Years
Love, Lust and Loose Screws: The Weekender’s 10 Best AI Movies of the Past 20...
April 25, 2026  |  The Weekender

Few technologies generate as much cocktail-party anxiety — and screenplay fuel — as artificial intelligence. Hollywood, naturally, got there first. For the past two decades,...

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Western Union Bets on Stablecoins and M&A for Growth
Western Union Bets on Stablecoins and M&A for Growth
April 24, 2026  |  Earnings

Western Union is looking to stablecoins and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for growth after a quarter in which revenue was flat due to a...

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Gas Prices Drive Consumer Sentiment Index to All-Time Low
Gas Prices Drive Consumer Sentiment Index to All-Time Low
April 24, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

The gas price spike drove the University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentiment to the lowest level recorded in its over 73-year history. Get the Full...

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Wisconsin Sues 5 Prediction Markets, Alleging Illegal Sports Betting
Wisconsin Sues 5 Prediction Markets, Alleging Illegal Sports Betting
April 24, 2026  |  Legal

Wisconsin sued five prediction market platforms and their affiliates Thursday (April 23), alleging that they operate illegal sports betting operations in the state. Get the...

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Banks Can’t Outsource Judgment to Algorithms
Banks Can’t Outsource Judgment to Algorithms
April 24, 2026  |  Bank Regulation

The growing reliance on automated customer interactions across banks and retailers is now being matched by a change in supervisory expectations, one that places continuous...

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Farmer Finance: What Agriculture’s Working Capital Shift Reveals for B2B
Farmer Finance: What Agriculture’s Working Capital Shift Reveals for B2B
April 24, 2026  |  Working Capital

This isn’t your grandfather’s working capital landscape. The fundamentals of today’s credit and underwriting ecosystem is shaking its earlier anchors to operating cash flow, becoming...

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Google Doubles Down on Anthropic With New $40 Billion Investment
Google Doubles Down on Anthropic With New $40 Billion Investment
April 24, 2026  |  Investments

Anthropic and Google confirmed Friday (April 24) that Google is investing $40 billion in the artificial intelligence startup to support its continued growth. Get the...

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Insurance Quoting Enters the AI Conversation Layer
Insurance Quoting Enters the AI Conversation Layer
April 24, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Getting a price on small business insurance has always meant answering a long list of questions across multiple touchpoints before reaching anyone who could give...

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Morgan Stanley Supports Stablecoin Issuers With New Fund for Reserves
Morgan Stanley Supports Stablecoin Issuers With New Fund for Reserves
April 24, 2026  |  Blockchain

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has launched a new government money market fund designed to meet the needs of payment stablecoin issuers that are looking to...

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