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BofA Expects Sports-Related Event Contracts to Hit $1.1 Trillion Per Year

BofA Expects Sports-Related Event Contracts to Hit $1.1 Trillion Per Year
BofA Expects Sports-Related Event Contracts to Hit $1.1 Trillion Per Year
April 09, 2026  |  Markets

Bank of America analysts believe that the annual volume of U.S. sports-related event contracts could grow to $1.1 trillion and that this activity could generate $10 billion in...

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Collide Capital Secures $95 Million to Scale Enterprise Software Startups
Collide Capital Secures $95 Million to Scale Enterprise Software Startups
April 09, 2026  |  Investments

Early-stage venture firm Collide Capital has raised an oversubscribed $95 million Fund II that will back FinTech, supply chain and “future of work” companies. Get...

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Moody’s Integrates AI Agents With Anthropic’s Claude
Moody’s Integrates AI Agents With Anthropic’s Claude
April 09, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Moody’s Agentic Solutions (MAS) will be available natively in Claude applications, bringing Moody’s risk intelligence to Anthropic’s AI. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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Treasury Sec’y Bessent Urges Congress to Pass Crypto Bill
Treasury Sec’y Bessent Urges Congress to Pass Crypto Bill
April 09, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Thursday (April 9) for Congress to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act), warning that the current lack...

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Oracle Expands Agentic AI Across Enterprise Workflows
Oracle Expands Agentic AI Across Enterprise Workflows
April 09, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Oracle is accelerating its push into agentic artificial intelligence, unveiling new capabilities across financial crime compliance, human resources, customer experience, finance and supply chain applications...

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CFOs Ditch AI Features to Fix Broken Payment Flows
CFOs Ditch AI Features to Fix Broken Payment Flows
April 09, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

The enterprise software landscape has sold finance leaders a simple promise: better automation would come from smarter machines. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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OpenAI Projects Steep Advertising Growth, Targeting $100 Billion by 2030
OpenAI Projects Steep Advertising Growth, Targeting $100 Billion by 2030
April 09, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

OpenAI expects its nascent advertising business to generate $2.5 billion in revenue this year and surge to $100 billion by the end of the decade,...

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Consumers Spend Through the Squeeze as Income Slips
Consumers Spend Through the Squeeze as Income Slips
April 09, 2026  |  Economy

Household spending is still advancing, but income isn’t keeping up anymore. The latest economic data and PYMNTS Intelligence reporting show households continuing to transact and...

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Meta Builds Personal AI Around User Data
Meta Builds Personal AI Around User Data
April 09, 2026  |  Meta

On Wednesday (April 8), Meta released Muse Spark, the first artificial intelligence (AI) model out of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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