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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
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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Best Buy Expands Omnichannel Footprint With OpenAI Integration and Smaller-Format Stores
Best Buy Expands Omnichannel Footprint With OpenAI Integration and Smaller-Format Stores
August 27, 2026  |  Earnings

Best Buy is reaching customers in new ways, both in stores and online, executives said Thursday (Aug. 27) during the specialty consumer electronics retailer’s quarterly...

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Wells Fargo Makes New Push to Recruit Wealth Managers
Wells Fargo Makes New Push to Recruit Wealth Managers
August 27, 2026  |  Banking

Wells Fargo has spent the last few years overhauling its wealth management business. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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