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CFTC Readies Own Crypto Market Rules as Congress Stalls CLARITY Act

CFTC Readies Own Crypto Market Rules as Congress Stalls CLARITY Act
CFTC Readies Own Crypto Market Rules as Congress Stalls CLARITY Act
August 20, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

If Congress doesn’t pass the CLARITY Act, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will use its existing authorities to begin establishing a crypto asset market...

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Google Launches Preferred Source Button for Publisher Websites
Google Launches Preferred Source Button for Publisher Websites
August 20, 2026  |  Google

Google has released a new interactive button that publishers can embed on their pages to enable readers to select them as a preferred source of information,...

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Banks Add Branches as Physical Networks Lift Digital Sales
Banks Add Branches as Physical Networks Lift Digital Sales
August 20, 2026  |  Banking

For the first time in years, the U.S. bank branch count is moving up meaningfully, and some of the biggest banks are putting billions of...

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Stripe and Ramp Are Betting on AI Traffic Controllers
Stripe and Ramp Are Betting on AI Traffic Controllers
August 20, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Stripe is known for processing payments. Ramp is known for managing corporate expenses. But this week, the two companies made almost identical moves: building the...

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AT&T Slashes AI Costs by Adopting Model Routers and Open Source
AT&T Slashes AI Costs by Adopting Model Routers and Open Source
August 20, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

AT&T cut the costs of coding and some other advanced artificial intelligence tasks by as much as 56% by using tools that route employees’ queries...

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Airbnb Tests AI Search After Automating 45% of Support
Airbnb Tests AI Search After Automating 45% of Support
August 20, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Airbnb is building artificial intelligence into nearly every step of a trip, not just the chatbot. The company’s AI customer-service assistant now resolves nearly 45%...

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Working Capital Is Becoming a Priced Portfolio for CFOs
Working Capital Is Becoming a Priced Portfolio for CFOs
August 20, 2026  |  Working Capital

The next frontier in working capital management isn’t squeezing another day out of receivables or stretching another day of payables. It’s deciding whether those dollars...

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Business Email Compromise Attack Hijacks Session Token to Steal Vendor Payments
Business Email Compromise Attack Hijacks Session Token to Steal Vendor Payments
August 20, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity firm TrendAI uncovered a business email compromise (BEC) scheme in which an attacker tricked a victim into clicking on a link and was then...

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