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Cryptocurrency
Love, Honor and Ledger: Why Couples Are Marrying With Crypto...

Welcome to the Weekender, where the only thing more volatile than Bitcoin is the...

Cryptocurrency
Bessent Says Crypto Firms Are Sabotaging Best Chance for Rules

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday (Feb. 13) that the crypto industry should support the CLARITY...

Artificial Intelligence
Pharma Rewires Drug Development With AI Operations

Drug development has grown too expensive and too slow to rely on manual workflows,...

artificial intelligence
IBM to Triple Entry-Level Hiring as AI Rewrites Junior Roles

IBM said it will triple entry-level hiring in the United States in 2026, even...

ANTITRUST
FTC Grills Microsoft Rivals to Bolster Antitrust Probe

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been asking several of Microsoft’s competitors about the...

Consumer Insights
Earnings Calls Show Balance Between Essential and Discretionary Spending

If one theme connected fourth-quarter earnings calls across consumer packaged goods companies and discretionary...

Legal
Judge Rejects JPMorgan Chase Bid to Kill Cash Sweep Lawsuit

A class action lawsuit targeting JPMorgan Chase’s cash sweep program can move forward after...

Economy
Inflation Data Supports Optimism as Consumers Adapt

The latest inflation data released Friday (Feb 13) point to a continued easing of...

Blockchain
This Week in Stablecoins: The Market Starts to Splinter

Stablecoins promise to help businesses move money faster, cheaper and more transparently. Get the...

Acquisitions
Proofpoint Targets Workplace AI Risks With Acuvity Buy

Proofpoint is adding agentic workspace protection to its cybersecurity platform by acquiring Acuvity. Get...

artificial intelligence
Anthropic Fast-Tracks Next Generation of Coders Into Claude Ecosystem

Anthropic has formed a partnership that will make its artificial intelligence (AI) tools Claude and Claude...

Artificial Intelligence
Banks Shift AI From Chatbots to Autonomous Money Movement

The most consequential artificial intelligence deployments in finance are invisible to customers. Get the...

artificial intelligence
Legora Targets $6 Billion Valuation as Law Firms Rush to...

Legora, provider of an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for lawyers, is in talks on...

Earnings
DraftKings Sees Slower 2026 Growth Despite $10 Billion Prediction Market...

Legalized sports betting triggered one of the fastest state-by-state commercial expansions in modern consumer...

Credit Unions
Credit Unions Take Stakes in FinTechs to Control the Roadmap

Michael Abraham, the chief strategy officer of Great Lakes Credit Union (GLCU), spotted a...

Artificial Intelligence
CFOs Take Control of Enterprise Gen AI

Enterprise use of generative artificial intelligence has moved past experimentation and into daily finance...

Consumer Insights
Tax Refund Season Reveals the Reality of Paycheck-to-Paycheck America

Financial strain is persistent across the United States, and the annual tax season—and refunds...

Fraud Prevention
More Than Half of Banks Plan to Outsource Fraud Detection 

The cost of fraud at U.S. financial institutions is rising, but the deeper threat...

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