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Commerce Finds Its Voice

Voice will finally pull agentic commerce onto the mobile phone by turning complex, desktop-only...

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Small Businesses Shift Toward Faster Payments to Strengthen Cash Flow

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Tokenized Deposits Steal Stablecoin Buzz — and the Business Model

In 2026, tokenized bank deposits overtake stablecoins as the preferred on-chain dollar for institutional...

Back-office
20th Century Payments Are Crippling Modern Media’s Growth

The advertising and media industry has spent the past decade reinventing almost everything about...

Artificial Intelligence
When AI Agents Go Shopping, Payments Shift to the Start...

New applications of artificial intelligence technologies, from dynamic wallets to autonomous shopping agents, are...

Big Tech
Economics Professor Says Big Tech Consolidation Drives Efficiency

Consolidation reshapes industries of every size, from manufacturing to retail to digital markets. Get...

Economy
Why Gen Z’s Dependence on Hourly Wages Is a Problem

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Next-Gen AP Automation
Smarter Spend: AI-Powered AP for Data-Based Decision-Making

Despite years of digital progress, many accounts payable (AP) teams still rely on manual,...

Real-Time Payments
Gig Economy Moves Platforms to Deliver Instant Payouts

Instant money movement is accelerating across the U.S. economy, and nowhere is that shift...

Bank Regulation
Private Credit Boom Threatens Stability, Says Global Watchdog

Private credit, representing lending by nonbank entities to companies, has in recent years come...

Artificial Intelligence
MIT Says AI Can Replace 11.7% of US Workforce

Artificial intelligence systems can already perform tasks equal to 11.7% of the workforce in...

Economy
US Factory Activity Shrinks the Most in Four Months Amid...

U.S. manufacturing activity contracted in November by the most in four months, signaling that...

eCommerce
Shopify Outage Locks Merchants Out on Cyber Monday

What should have been a Cyber Monday victory lap for Shopify turned into a...

BNPL
Multistate Coalition Requests Info on BNPL Industry Practices

State attorneys general from Connecticut and North Carolina have opened an inquiry into the...

artificial intelligence
DeepSeek ‘Integrates Thinking’ Into New AI Models

DeepSeek has debuted two new versions of an experimental artificial intelligence (AI) model. Get...

artificial intelligence
S&P Turns to Amazon to Bring AI Agents to Customers

S&P Global has rolled out a series of integrations with Amazon Web Services (AWS)....

Partnerships
OpenAI Launches Partnerships With Thrive and Accenture

OpenAI is teaming with Thrive Holdings, an investment vehicle created by longtime investor Thrive...

artificial intelligence
Investors Renew Funding for Core AI Capabilities

A new wave of funding rounds across the artificial intelligence (AI) startup ecosystem is...

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