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Pinterest’s AI Bet on Visual Search Begins Paying Off in Revenue

Pinterest’s AI Bet on Visual Search Begins Paying Off in Revenue
Pinterest’s AI Bet on Visual Search Begins Paying Off in Revenue
May 04, 2026  |  Social Commerce

A decade of visual search data. A taste graph trained on hundreds of billions of interactions. Eighty billion monthly searches every month, half of them...

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ThredUp AI Agents Personalize Shopping in Real Time
ThredUp AI Agents Personalize Shopping in Real Time
May 04, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

ThredUp has added the first agentic artificial intelligence experience to its online resale platform for apparel, shoes and accessories. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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FIS and Anthropic Collaborate to Enable Agent-First Banks
FIS and Anthropic Collaborate to Enable Agent-First Banks
May 04, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

FIS and Anthropic have developed a Financial Crimes AI Agent and plan to build additional artificial intelligence agents for bank-grade operations. Get the Full Story...

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Crypto’s Post-Charter Playbook Runs on Stablecoins and Asset Custody
Crypto’s Post-Charter Playbook Runs on Stablecoins and Asset Custody
May 04, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

The best money is often the biggest money. And while crypto scaled over the past decade by competing on consumer-facing products like exchanges, wallets, and...

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FinTechs Race to Fix the Middle Market’s Finance Gap
FinTechs Race to Fix the Middle Market’s Finance Gap
May 04, 2026  |  Business

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems act as the organizing backbone of corporate finance, yet their limits are showing. In many cases, they arrive too late...

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SEC Investigates Fraud Claims in Private Credit Markets
SEC Investigates Fraud Claims in Private Credit Markets
May 04, 2026  |  Regulation

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating allegations of fraud in private credit markets, the agency’s chairman said Monday (May 4). Get the Full...

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Tetra Launches Canadian-Dollar Stablecoin to Power Cross-Border Payments
Tetra Launches Canadian-Dollar Stablecoin to Power Cross-Border Payments
May 04, 2026  |  Blockchain

Tetra Digital Group has launched a payment stablecoin backed 1:1 by Canadian dollars after receiving regulatory approval from Alberta Treasury Board and Finance.  Get the...

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Apple Plans Wallet Tool for QR Codes
Apple Plans Wallet Tool for QR Codes
May 04, 2026  |  Apple

Apple’s next major iPhone software update will enable users to build digital gift cards and tickets, Bloomberg reported Monday (May 4), citing unnamed sources. Get...

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Global CFOs Find a Fix for Cross-Border Payments
Global CFOs Find a Fix for Cross-Border Payments
May 04, 2026  |  Cross-border Payments

The operational backdrop is changing at an unprecedented speed for global businesses. If only their back offices could keep up instead of struggling to do...

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