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Artificial Intelligence
Your AI Notetaker Would Like a Word

The modern meeting has acquired a new participant. It doesn’t contribute, laugh at jokes…

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Investments
Fifth Third Backs Payload’s Embedded Payments Expansion

Payload has secured a strategic investment led by Fifth Third to expand its embedded payments platform, Payload…

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IPO
Nscale Targets $3 Billion IPO as AI Data Center Demand…

Nscale, a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, aims to raise as much…

Artificial Intelligence
One AI Agent, 2,395 Payments. Still No Final Say

Preparing a batch of payments used to mean a person checking each invoice, confirming…

Payment Methods
Card Processors Add New Rails as Customers Go Global

The card-issuing platforms that grew up alongside, and serving, FinTechs are following their customers…

Artificial Intelligence
AI Is Opening New Revenue Streams for Automakers

Artificial intelligence (AI) could give automakers something they have spent years trying to build:…

Personnel
Former JPMorgan COO Matt Zames to Advise Social Security Administration…

Former JPMorgan Chase Chief Operating Officer Matt Zames will become an advisor to the…

Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia Pays $6 Billion to License Poolside AI Model-Development Software

Nvidia will pay $6 billion to license Poolside’s artificial intelligence model-development software, Model Factory,…

Cryptocurrency
This Week in Stablecoins: Crypto That Never Touches the Customer

Stablecoins five years ago represented a new form of money looking for a reason…

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Artificial Intelligence
AI Jobs Are Booming for Gen Z, Not Everyone

Artificial intelligence has not been around long enough to reward seniority the way most…

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Artificial Intelligence
Grassroots Backlash Forces Big Tech to Rewrite Data Center Playbook

Grassroots resistance to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is accomplishing what policymakers have largely…

Walmart
Payment Methods
Walmart Tap to Pay Rollout Begins Monday

Walmart will soon begin rolling out tap to pay as a payment option at…

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Economy
European Consumers’ Inflation Expectations Ease Despite Middle East War Uncertainty

European consumers’ inflation expectations inched down in July, the European Central Bank said in a Friday (Aug. 21) press…

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Retail
Retailers Find Bigger Growth Selling Ads Around the Shopping Cart

Retail media is giving Walmart, Target and Amazon a faster-growing source of revenue than…

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Markets
CFTC Roundtable Exposes Regulatory Rift Over Prediction-Market Risks

Prediction-market executives clashed Thursday (Aug. 20) over how regulators should police manipulation and insider…

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Real-Time Payments
Instant Payments Unlock Working Capital by Allowing Treasury to Pay…

The unexpected advantage of instant transactions for B2B firms is not faster payment but…

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Investments
Robotics AI Firm Dexmal Seeks $3 Billion Valuation in New…

Dexmal, a Chinese firm developing embodied artificial intelligence to control robots, is seeking a…

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Payments Innovation
Banks Prepare Payments for AI Commerce

Watch more: Need to Know With Thales’ Caio Reis Get the Full Story Complete…

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