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Apple Teams With LG to Expand Smart Home Offerings

Apple Teams With LG to Expand Smart Home Offerings
Apple Teams With LG to Expand Smart Home Offerings
October 07, 2026  |  Mobile Commerce

Apple’s new smart home hub will reportedly extend beyond the confines of the home.  The tech giant is teaming with LG Electronics to develop products...

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Meta and Sierra Build Standard for How Personal Agents Interact With Businesses
Meta and Sierra Build Standard for How Personal Agents Interact With Businesses
October 06, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

An open standard that defines how personal agents interact with businesses is being developed by Sierra, Meta, Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, Stripe and Walmart, Sierra...

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Treasury Program Blocks $175 Million in Federal Payments Bound for Dead People
Treasury Program Blocks $175 Million in Federal Payments Bound for Dead People
October 06, 2026  |  Disbursements

The Treasury Department’s new payment verification process stopped $175 million in payments that would have gone to deceased individuals during the past fiscal year, the...

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Fed’s Bowman Decries ‘Antiquated’ Analysis Blocking Rural Bank Mergers
Fed’s Bowman Decries ‘Antiquated’ Analysis Blocking Rural Bank Mergers
October 06, 2026  |  Bank Regulation

There is more work to be done in modernizing the bank regulatory and supervision framework, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle W. Bowman said Tuesday (Oct. 6)....

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Lambda Targets $14.5 Billion Valuation in Final Pre-IPO Round
Lambda Targets $14.5 Billion Valuation in Final Pre-IPO Round
October 06, 2026  |  Investments

Cloud computing company Lambda is raising as much as $4 billion in a funding round that will value the company at $14.5 billion, excluding the money raised,...

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Anthropic Expands Discounts and Support for Founders
Anthropic Expands Discounts and Support for Founders
October 06, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic expanded its Claude Startups program to more founders, the company said via its Claude account in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) post on social platform...

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Stripe to Power Small Business Underwriting With FedEx Supply Chain Data
Stripe to Power Small Business Underwriting With FedEx Supply Chain Data
October 06, 2026  |  Partnerships

FedEx Dataworks, the insights and intelligence subsidiary of FedEx Corp., and Stripe plan to leverage their respective platforms to expand access to financing for small...

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Wells Fargo Mobile App Can Personalize Debit Card With Photo
Wells Fargo Mobile App Can Personalize Debit Card With Photo
October 06, 2026  |  Mobile

Wells Fargo says customers can now personalize debit cards within its mobile banking app. The Mobile Card Design Studio lets customers upload personal photos from...

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