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Anthropic Previews Standard for AI Control of Physical Devices

Anthropic Previews Standard for AI Control of Physical Devices
Anthropic Previews Standard for AI Control of Physical Devices
August 27, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic is opening a research preview of a shared specification for artificial intelligence agents to operate physical devices, specifically lab and manufacturing instruments, the company...

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Affirm Makes Smaller Purchases BNPL’s Next Growth Test
Affirm Makes Smaller Purchases BNPL’s Next Growth Test
August 27, 2026  |  BNPL

Affirm’s latest quarter shows buy now, pay later (BNPL) moving deeper into everyday spending, where affordability depends less on financing one large purchase and more...

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Cisco Deploys Custom AI Agent to Entire 90,000-Person Workforce
Cisco Deploys Custom AI Agent to Entire 90,000-Person Workforce
August 27, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Cisco is rolling out its artificial intelligence (AI) agent, MyAgent, to 90,000 employees, Thimaya Subaiya, executive vice president, operations at Cisco, said in a Thursday...

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Thomson Reuters Taps Decades of Content to Train AI
Thomson Reuters Taps Decades of Content to Train AI
August 27, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Thomson Reuters has launched a proprietary large language model that the company developed in-house and trained on its decades of content from Westlaw, Practical Law, Checkpoint and Reuters, the company said in a Monday (Aug. 24) press...

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Meta Tests AI Assistant That Can Fill Out Forms and Buy Products
Meta Tests AI Assistant That Can Fill Out Forms and Buy Products
August 27, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s upcoming artificial intelliHatgence assistant, known in-house as “Hatch,” can fill out forms, buy things, perform deep research and “do anything you can do online,”...

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B2B Pricing Power Changes When Software Can Prove Its Own ROI
B2B Pricing Power Changes When Software Can Prove Its Own ROI
August 27, 2026  |  B2B Payments

A new problem is emerging across the B2B economy. Companies can now deliver measurable value to customers without making that value particularly measurable by customers. Get the...

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Bitcoin Climbs Past $80,000 as Wall Street Returns
Bitcoin Climbs Past $80,000 as Wall Street Returns
August 27, 2026  |  Bitcoin

Bitcoin climbed above $80,000 this week for the first time since May, with renewed demand from institutional investors and improving interest from retail investors, Bloomberg reported Thursday...

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DraftKings CCO Explains How Crown Cash Unifies Loyalty Rewards
DraftKings CCO Explains How Crown Cash Unifies Loyalty Rewards
August 27, 2026  |  Loyalty & Rewards

DraftKings customers have long had to think in different currencies depending on where they were playing. Points on the sportsbook. A separate tier system on...

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