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Verizon’s Dan Schulman Tells CEOs to Be Open About AI...

Verizon’s CEO wants his contemporaries to be open about artificial intelligence-related job losses. Get...

Walmart
Walmart Eyes Stores as Warehouse Space for Same-Day Delivery

Walmart has reportedly discovered warehousing space for its eCommerce war with Amazon: its own...

Travel Payments
Airbnb Adds Independent Hotels to List of Lodging Options

After years of focusing on short-term home/apartment rentals, Airbnb is reportedly entering the hotel...

Cryptocurrency
Kelp DAO $293 Million Hack Largest DeFi Theft of 2026

Hackers have reportedly stolen nearly $300 million from decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Kelp DAO....

Biometrics
India Cancels Plan to Place Biometric App on Smartphones

India has reportedly abandoned plans to require smartphone makers to include the country’s biometric...

Amazon
AWS Launches Amazon Bio Discovery to Speed AI Drug Development

Amazon Web Services has unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered application for better, faster drug development....

The Weekender
QVC Was TikTok Shop Before TikTok Shop

QVC this week announced it is filing for bankruptcy, which makes this a fitting...

Investments
Loop Raises $95 Million to Bridge Supply Chain Data Gap

Loop raised $95 million in a Series C funding round to expand its platform...

Investments
Cursor Eyes $50 Billion Valuation as AI Coding Demand Surges

Cursor, a maker of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding tools, is looking to raise about...

Earnings
Commercial Lending Rescues Regional Banks From Consumer Slowdown 

This week’s regional bank earnings sent a pointed message about where the growth is...

artificial intelligence
Anthropic and White House Aim to Make Peace in Friday...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will meet with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in the West...

Acquisitions
Home Depot Buys SIMPL Automation to Support Same-Day Delivery

The Home Depot aims to strengthen its same-day and next-day fulfillment strategy with its...

B2B Payments
The Riskiest Words in B2B: This Is How We’ve Always...

Few phrases in corporate history have proven as durable as “no one ever got...

Cryptocurrency
France Urges Euro Stablecoins to Break Dollar Dependency

French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said Friday (April 17) that European banks should develop...

Legal
Importers Prep for Monday Opening of Tariff Refund Portal

Importers are preparing to file claims Monday (April 20) for refunds of tariffs, but...

artificial intelligence
Permitting Hurdles and Labor Shortages Threaten AI Data Center Timelines

Almost 40% of U.S. data center projects are at risk of falling behind schedule,...

Blockchain
Token Freezes Force CFOs to Rethink Stablecoin Risk

The world moves fast, and money movement needs to keep up. That’s a large...

Social Commerce
X Money Tests Whether Social Commerce Can Hold Consumer Deposits

Social platforms have long influenced what consumers browse and buy, but the next step...

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