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Google Shifts AI Safety Unit Out of DeepMind Lab to Global Affairs

Google Shifts AI Safety Unit Out of DeepMind Lab to Global Affairs
Google Shifts AI Safety Unit Out of DeepMind Lab to Global Affairs
August 26, 2026  |  Google

Google is moving its “AI responsibility” unit out of Google DeepMind and into Google’s global affairs organization, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday (Aug. 26), citing an internal email. Get...

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Instinct Nears $2.5 Billion Valuation as AI Assistants Take Over Daily Chores
Instinct Nears $2.5 Billion Valuation as AI Assistants Take Over Daily Chores
August 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Instinct, the developer of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant that seems to be gaining traction among early adopters, is raising a $250 million Series B...

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Anthropic Escalates Cloud Spending With $45 Billion Nscale Agreement
Anthropic Escalates Cloud Spending With $45 Billion Nscale Agreement
August 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic has agreed to pay $45 billion to rent cloud computing power from neocloud company Nscale’s West Virginia data center, which is set to start...

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Open Finance Exposes the Limits of the Primary Account
Open Finance Exposes the Limits of the Primary Account
August 26, 2026  |  Banking

A primary financial relationship loses some of its value when the provider can see only a fraction of the customer’s money. Get the Full Story...

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X9 Wants Fraud Data to Move as Fast as Money
X9 Wants Fraud Data to Move as Fast as Money
August 26, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

The U.S. payments industry does not lack fraud data. It lacks agreement about what that data means. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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39 State Bankers Groups Join Forces to Build Blockchain Network
39 State Bankers Groups Join Forces to Build Blockchain Network
August 26, 2026  |  Blockchain

Thirty-nine state bankers associations have formed an organization dedicated to creating a blockchain network that will be owned, designed and governed by the industry. Get...

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Hotel Pricing AI Software Faces Test After Court Revives Atlantic City Case
Hotel Pricing AI Software Faces Test After Court Revives Atlantic City Case
August 26, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

Picture a hotel handing its private pricing data to a computer program, while the hotel across the street is feeding its own numbers into that...

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CISA Shares Federal Cyber Guidance With Critical Infrastructure Companies
CISA Shares Federal Cyber Guidance With Critical Infrastructure Companies
August 26, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a guide to network monitoring that it said was developed for federal agencies but can...

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