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Synchrony Moves Dental Financing Beyond the Credit Score

Synchrony Moves Dental Financing Beyond the Credit Score
Synchrony Moves Dental Financing Beyond the Credit Score
June 23, 2026  |  Healthcare

When a dental patient considers care for a procedure like a new crown or a root canal and can’t pay for it up front, it’s...

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Banks Replace Real Customers With AI Clones for Product Testing
Banks Replace Real Customers With AI Clones for Product Testing
June 22, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Testing a new credit card or banking product once required months of regulatory vetting and customer recruitment. Now banks build the customer instead. Get the...

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The Corporate Road Warrior Is Back With a Bigger Mission
The Corporate Road Warrior Is Back With a Bigger Mission
June 22, 2026  |  Travel Payments

Business travel is back. Global business travel spending is expected to reach between $1.62 trillion and $1.69 trillion for the calendar year, per estimates cited...

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Samsung Rolls Out OpenAI Tools to Workforce in Major Enterprise Push
Samsung Rolls Out OpenAI Tools to Workforce in Major Enterprise Push
June 22, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Samsung Electronics deployed OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to its entire South Korean workforce and select international divisions, Seeking Alpha reported Monday (June 22). The deployment...

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Fed Governor Casts Tokenization as New Dollar Channel
Fed Governor Casts Tokenization as New Dollar Channel
June 22, 2026  |  Blockchain

Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Christopher J. Waller opened the Federal Reserve’s Fifth Conference on the International Roles of the Dollar on Monday (June...

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Claude Users Could Face New ID Checks
Claude Users Could Face New ID Checks
June 22, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Anthropic is preparing to ask some Claude users to verify their identity, a move that could require government-issued IDs and, in some cases, selfie checks,...

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California Consumers Sue Gas Stations Over AI Price Fixing
California Consumers Sue Gas Stations Over AI Price Fixing
June 22, 2026  |  Retail

A group of California consumers filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that gas station operators including Walmart, Marathon Petroleum, BP and 7-Eleven used an artificial...

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Meta Backs India’s Cred and Hires Founder to Run WhatsApp
Meta Backs India’s Cred and Hires Founder to Run WhatsApp
June 22, 2026  |  Facebook / Meta

Meta has invested $900 million in India’s Cred, and hired its founder to oversee WhatsApp. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

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