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European Consumers’ Inflation Expectations Ease Despite Middle East War Uncertainty

European Consumers’ Inflation Expectations Ease Despite Middle East War Uncertainty
European Consumers’ Inflation Expectations Ease Despite Middle East War Uncertainty
August 21, 2026  |  Economy

European consumers’ inflation expectations inched down in July, the European Central Bank said in a Friday (Aug. 21) press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

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Robotics AI Firm Dexmal Seeks $3 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round
Robotics AI Firm Dexmal Seeks $3 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round
August 21, 2026  |  Investments

Dexmal, a Chinese firm developing embodied artificial intelligence to control robots, is seeking a valuation of 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) in a funding round,...

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Ross Posts 13% Sales Jump as Inflation Drives Shoppers to Off-Price Retailers
Ross Posts 13% Sales Jump as Inflation Drives Shoppers to Off-Price Retailers
August 20, 2026  |  Retail

Off-price retailer Ross Stores saw “robust” sales growth in the quarter ended Aug. 1 as both existing customers and new ones sought prices lower than...

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Anthropic Aims for Largest-Ever IPO
Anthropic Aims for Largest-Ever IPO
August 20, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic expects its initial public offering to reach a record high, equaling or surpassing the one set by SpaceX, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 20), citing...

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CFTC Readies Own Crypto Market Rules as Congress Stalls CLARITY Act
CFTC Readies Own Crypto Market Rules as Congress Stalls CLARITY Act
August 20, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

If Congress doesn’t pass the CLARITY Act, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will use its existing authorities to begin establishing a crypto asset market...

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Google Launches Preferred Source Button for Publisher Websites
Google Launches Preferred Source Button for Publisher Websites
August 20, 2026  |  Google

Google has released a new interactive button that publishers can embed on their pages to enable readers to select them as a preferred source of information,...

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AT&T Slashes AI Costs by Adopting Model Routers and Open Source
AT&T Slashes AI Costs by Adopting Model Routers and Open Source
August 20, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

AT&T cut the costs of coding and some other advanced artificial intelligence tasks by as much as 56% by using tools that route employees’ queries...

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Business Email Compromise Attack Hijacks Session Token to Steal Vendor Payments
Business Email Compromise Attack Hijacks Session Token to Steal Vendor Payments
August 20, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity firm TrendAI uncovered a business email compromise (BEC) scheme in which an attacker tricked a victim into clicking on a link and was then...

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