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Booking Holdings AI Assistants Slash Costs and Boost Bookings

Booking Holdings AI Assistants Slash Costs and Boost Bookings
Booking Holdings AI Assistants Slash Costs and Boost Bookings
April 28, 2026  |  Earnings

Booking Holdings is seeing benefits from its investments in generative artificial intelligence and is continuing to expand its AI-powered capabilities across its operations, executives said...

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New Federal Bills Promote US AI Leadership and Child Safety
New Federal Bills Promote US AI Leadership and Child Safety
April 28, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

U.S. lawmakers have introduced two bills covering artificial intelligence: one that would give parents control over their kids’ use of AI chatbots, and one that...

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Visa Earnings Spotlight Agentic Commerce as Next Growth Engine
Visa Earnings Spotlight Agentic Commerce as Next Growth Engine
April 28, 2026  |  VISA

Visa’s latest earnings Tuesday (April 28) showed a company still getting plenty of lift from card spending while pushing deeper into stablecoins, blockchain and artificial...

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Crypto Fueled Robinhood’s Rise. Its Collapse Is Reshaping the Business
Crypto Fueled Robinhood’s Rise. Its Collapse Is Reshaping the Business
April 28, 2026  |  Earnings

Can growth disappoint? It sure can. Particularly across the FinTech landscape where the tensions between company ambitions and investor expectations can play out in new...

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The AI Boom Is Funding a Caribbean Island Two Letters at a Time
The AI Boom Is Funding a Caribbean Island Two Letters at a Time
April 28, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Anguilla did not build an artificial intelligence model. It did not raise venture capital or hire researchers. In the 1980s, it was assigned two letters...

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New Square AI Agent Automates Daily Tasks for Main Street Sellers
New Square AI Agent Automates Daily Tasks for Main Street Sellers
April 28, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Square is now offering an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered “intelligent business agent” built into Square Dashboard to a select group of sellers in open beta. Get...

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Smart Firms Treat Vendor Risk Like Their Own
Smart Firms Treat Vendor Risk Like Their Own
April 28, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Artificial intelligence has opened up Pandora’s box for enterprise cybersecurity. And what it found was that the modern enterprise is no longer a closed system....

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Polymarket Seeks End to CFTC Trading Ban
Polymarket Seeks End to CFTC Trading Ban
April 28, 2026  |  Markets

Polymarket has approached the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to seek an end to the current prohibition that keeps U.S. customers from accessing its prediction market platform, Bloomberg reported...

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OpenAI Joins Amazon Bedrock After New Agreement With Microsoft
OpenAI Joins Amazon Bedrock After New Agreement With Microsoft
April 28, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

OpenAI models are now available in limited preview through Amazon Bedrock, a platform for building generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agents. Get the Full Story Complete...

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