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AI Pioneer Andrew Ng Expects Decades-Long Wait For AGI

AI Pioneer Andrew Ng Expects Decades-Long Wait For AGI
AI Pioneer Andrew Ng Expects Decades-Long Wait For AGI
February 27, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said the industry is decades away from developing artificial general intelligence (AGI). Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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CFOs Turn Trade Finance Into a Balance-Sheet Advantage
CFOs Turn Trade Finance Into a Balance-Sheet Advantage
February 27, 2026  |  B2B Payments

Trade finance has a dirty secret. While containers can be tracked in real time across the world’s oceans, the documentation required to release those goods...

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OpenAI Raises $110 Billion to Build Global AI Infrastructure
OpenAI Raises $110 Billion to Build Global AI Infrastructure
February 27, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

OpenAI on Friday (Feb. 27) confirmed it has raised $110 billion in new funding from Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank, in one of the largest private...

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Barclays Accelerates Push Into Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits
Barclays Accelerates Push Into Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits
February 27, 2026  |  Blockchain

Barclays is looking to build a blockchain platform that could handle stablecoin payments and tokenized deposits, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. 27), citing unnamed sources. Get...

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Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus Seeks Billions to Reinvent Industrial Giants With AI
Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus Seeks Billions to Reinvent Industrial Giants With AI
February 27, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Project Prometheus, an artificial intelligence lab co-founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former Google executive Vikram Bajaj, is raising “tens of billions of dollars”...

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Agentic Commerce Pushes ‘Know Your Human’ Into Verification Processes
Agentic Commerce Pushes ‘Know Your Human’ Into Verification Processes
February 27, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the service of agentic commerce searches for products, compares prices, negotiates terms and, in some cases with agents, executes transactions on...

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Duolingo Bets on User Growth to Outpace AI Disruption
Duolingo Bets on User Growth to Outpace AI Disruption
February 27, 2026  |  Earnings

Duolingo said Thursday (Feb. 27) that it plans to shift its focus from financial growth to user growth amid a challenge posed by artificial intelligence....

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This Week in Stablecoins: FinTech, Big Tech and Regulation
This Week in Stablecoins: FinTech, Big Tech and Regulation
February 27, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Stablecoins are out there; now they just need to work. The next phase for stablecoins may focus less on issuance and more on interoperability in...

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Front Desk and Help Desk Are Now Manned by AI
Front Desk and Help Desk Are Now Manned by AI
February 27, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

The corporate front desk and the internal help desk are becoming faster, smarter and always on. New data from RingCentral and ServiceNow shows AI systems...

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