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Google Scraps Search Ranking Penalties for Publishers After EU Pressure

Google Scraps Search Ranking Penalties for Publishers After EU Pressure
Google Scraps Search Ranking Penalties for Publishers After EU Pressure
August 28, 2026  |  Google

Google has adjusted its site reputation policy in the European Economic Area (EEA) after discussion with the European Commission, the company said in a Friday...

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SoftBank Seeks $10 Billion Loan to Refinance OpenAI Stake
SoftBank Seeks $10 Billion Loan to Refinance OpenAI Stake
August 28, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

SoftBank Group is seeking a $10 billion loan to help refinance debt used for its investment in OpenAI, Bloomberg reported Friday (Aug. 28), citing unnamed...

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Advent, Stripe Abandon $50 Billion Pursuit of PayPal
Advent, Stripe Abandon $50 Billion Pursuit of PayPal
August 28, 2026  |  Acquiring

The blockbuster PayPal buyout could be off. Advent International and Stripe have reportedly walked away from their pursuit of the payments pioneer, ending months of...

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Affirm and Shopify Take Shop Pay Installments to Australia
Affirm and Shopify Take Shop Pay Installments to Australia
August 27, 2026  |  BNPL

Australian shoppers can now select installment payments powered by Affirm when they click on Shopify’s Shop Pay button, Affirm said in a Thursday (Aug. 27)...

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NSA Leverages White House Directives to Gain Access to AI
NSA Leverages White House Directives to Gain Access to AI
August 27, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The National Security Agency (NSA) wants access to “all” artificial intelligence models, NSA Deputy Director Tim Kosiba said Thursday (Aug. 27), according to a NextGov/FCW...

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Anthropic Previews Standard for AI Control of Physical Devices
Anthropic Previews Standard for AI Control of Physical Devices
August 27, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic is opening a research preview of a shared specification for artificial intelligence agents to operate physical devices, specifically lab and manufacturing instruments, the company...

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Cisco Deploys Custom AI Agent to Entire 90,000-Person Workforce
Cisco Deploys Custom AI Agent to Entire 90,000-Person Workforce
August 27, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Cisco is rolling out its artificial intelligence (AI) agent, MyAgent, to 90,000 employees, Thimaya Subaiya, executive vice president, operations at Cisco, said in a Thursday...

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Thomson Reuters Taps Decades of Content to Train AI
Thomson Reuters Taps Decades of Content to Train AI
August 27, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Thomson Reuters has launched a proprietary large language model that the company developed in-house and trained on its decades of content from Westlaw, Practical Law, Checkpoint and Reuters, the company said in a Monday (Aug. 24) press...

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