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Anthropic Aims for Largest-Ever IPO

Anthropic Aims for Largest-Ever IPO
Anthropic Aims for Largest-Ever IPO
August 20, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic expects its initial public offering to reach a record high, equaling or surpassing the one set by SpaceX, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 20), citing...

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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
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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