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Dollar Tree Attracts Higher-Income Customers as Sales Climb 7%

Dollar Tree Attracts Higher-Income Customers as Sales Climb 7%
Dollar Tree Attracts Higher-Income Customers as Sales Climb 7%
August 27, 2026  |  Earnings

Dollar Tree continues to attract middle-income and higher-income shoppers as consumers deal with inflation. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Hugging Face Hack Involved 700 AI Agents That Tried to Conceal Behavior
Hugging Face Hack Involved 700 AI Agents That Tried to Conceal Behavior
August 27, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Last month, OpenAI revealed that its agents had hacked open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

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Amazon and Walmart Test Whether Drones Can Make Rural Delivery Pay
Amazon and Walmart Test Whether Drones Can Make Rural Delivery Pay
August 27, 2026  |  Retail

Retail, since the category’s inception, has embraced the maxim that population density equals sales destiny. That calculus has largely held steady in the age of...

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Visa Rolls Out AI-Powered Cyber Vulnerability Patching for Clients
Visa Rolls Out AI-Powered Cyber Vulnerability Patching for Clients
August 27, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Visa expanded the capabilities of its artificial intelligence-powered cyber risk management tool, Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness (VVAH), to include not only discovery of vulnerabilities but...

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Lowe’s AI Assistant Turns Questions Into Sales
Lowe’s AI Assistant Turns Questions Into Sales
August 27, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Lowe’s AI shopping assistant, Mylow, has fielded more than 25 million questions from customers and store associates since launch, and shoppers who engage with it...

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Prediction Markets Face Divided Courts and a Widening Political Fight
Prediction Markets Face Divided Courts and a Widening Political Fight
August 27, 2026  |  Markets

Prediction markets are expanding under federal protections that remains contested in court, while Congress has yet to advance legislation settling how they should operate. The...

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Hong Kong Tests ‘Know Your Agent’ Controls in Payment Workflows 
Hong Kong Tests ‘Know Your Agent’ Controls in Payment Workflows 
August 27, 2026  |  Banking

Financial institutions have spent decades learning how to identify customers. Hong Kong is starting to test how they might identify the artificial intelligence (AI) agents...

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How Jack Henry, FIS and nCino Put Bank Modernization to Work
How Jack Henry, FIS and nCino Put Bank Modernization to Work
August 27, 2026  |  Earnings

Earnings season is showing that bank modernization demand is landing in faster payments, cloud and digital banking, and artificial intelligence tools aimed at credit, fraud...

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