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First Citizens Seeks New Mergers to Cross Growth Threshold

First Citizens Seeks New Mergers to Cross Growth Threshold
First Citizens Seeks New Mergers to Cross Growth Threshold
February 20, 2026  |  Bank Regulation

First Citizens BancShares is looking to make acquisitions that will give it the scale needed to deal with the additional regulations that come into effect...

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Multi-Agent Systems Move Business AI From Chatbot to Operations
Multi-Agent Systems Move Business AI From Chatbot to Operations
February 20, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

For the last two years, enterprise artificial intelligence has been stuck in the assistant phase, a world of smarter emails and faster document summaries that...

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Saks Global Pledges $600 Million to Vendors After Court Win
Saks Global Pledges $600 Million to Vendors After Court Win
February 20, 2026  |  Retail

Saks Global received court approval Friday (Feb. 20) for a $1 billion bankruptcy loan, Reuters reported Friday. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Consumer Spending Stays Strong Despite Slower Income Gains
Consumer Spending Stays Strong Despite Slower Income Gains
February 20, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Consumers continue to shoulder the expansion of the U.S. economy, even as late-year data reveal a more deliberate spending posture and a softer pace of...

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Ripple CEO Sees 90% Chance for Crypto Bill Breakthrough
Ripple CEO Sees 90% Chance for Crypto Bill Breakthrough
February 20, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse thinks there is a 90% chance the CLARITY Act will be signed into law by the end of April, he said...

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Telcos Double Down on AI as 90% Report Positive Returns
Telcos Double Down on AI as 90% Report Positive Returns
February 20, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Telecom operators’ relationship with artificial intelligence (AI) is now defined by results, not rhetoric. Nvidia’s 2026 State of AI in Telecommunications survey, which polled more...

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Square Builds Out App Marketplace Ahead of Block’s Earnings Report
Square Builds Out App Marketplace Ahead of Block’s Earnings Report
February 20, 2026  |  SMBs

Global business platform Square continues to expand its partner ecosystem and now has almost 1,000 partners in its Square App Marketplace and its Square Specialists...

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OpenAI Deploys 200 Employees to Build AI Smart Devices
OpenAI Deploys 200 Employees to Build AI Smart Devices
February 20, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

OpenAI’s effort to develop artificial intelligence-powered devices involves more than 200 people, The Information reported Friday (Feb. 20), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story...

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Google Introduces WebMCP to Give Browser Access for AI Agents
Google Introduces WebMCP to Give Browser Access for AI Agents
February 20, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Google is taking a step toward formalizing how artificial intelligence (AI) agents interact with the web, introducing WebMCP as an early preview feature inside Chrome....

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