Watch more: TechREG Talks With Anant Raut The legal architecture governing software rests on a useful assumption: However sophisticated the technology becomes, somewhere behind it sits a person or company responsible for the consequential decision. Agentic artificial intelligence, however, is beginning to put distance between...
Inflation accelerated in May, and while energy prices continue to grab headlines, shelter, food and services, categories that account for a large share of recurring household expenses, continued to climb. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) data released Wednesday (June 10) by the Bureau of Labor...
The latest reading on inflation shows an overall easing in the pace of price increases. The data released Wednesday (June 11) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the impact of tariffs has been benign, or at least they were in May. But essential...
The slight rise in consumer prices, as February’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Wednesday (March 12) showed, may just be (relative) calm before the inflationary storm. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 0.2% higher in February, as measured against January’s levels, and annualized inflation...
August 25, 2026
Watch more: TechReg Talks With Marcela Mattiuzzo of VMCA Advogados The defining antitrust question of the artificial intelligence era may be less about how aggressively regulators intervene than how long they can afford to wait. And Marcela Mattiuzzo, partner at VMCA Advogados, told Competition Policy International (CPI), a PYMNTS company, that Brazil is emerging as a test case. […]
August 20, 2026
Watch more: TechREG Talks With Anant Raut The legal architecture governing software rests on a useful assumption: However sophisticated the technology becomes, somewhere behind it sits a person or company...
February 12, 2025
It’s not just about the eggs. Consumers were already feeling the pinch of higher inflation well before the January data on the Consumer Price Index was released by the Bureau...
October 10, 2024
In economics, there’s often a bifurcation when it comes to data — the difference between what the headlines tell us and what the wallet feels. Case in point: Septembers’ official...
April 23, 2023
New government research shows that markups on new vehicles helped drive the inflation plaguing consumers. A recent study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that those added profits contributed 0.3 to 0.7 percentage points to the almost 16% increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) between the close of 2019 and the […]
April 09, 2023
Durable U.S. inflation last month could test the Federal Reserve. As Bloomberg News reported Saturday (April 8), upcoming government data is expected to show a 0.4% increase in the core consumer price...
March 23, 2022
Payments technology company CPI Card Group Inc. has debuted its Push Provisioning service, the Colorado company said in a news release Wednesday (March 23). The service “facilitates the tokenization of...
May 12, 2020
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell to its lowest level in a dozen years last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The CPI, a measure of...