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While innovation in fintech has undoubtedly created value for consumers, it’s also introduced another layer of fragmentation both for consumer and financial service providers. Neo banks, digital asset exchanges, investment apps, and credit cards are all among the varied options today’s consumers have but most nascent fintech companies leverage open banking protocols to target a narrow focus and offer services to address only one or two of these needs. Fierce, billed as a “Finance Super App” looks to elimi
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With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States. Read more ›
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Trump sued the nation's largest bank and its famous CEO for allegations of political debanking. Read more ›
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We already knew xAI's Grok was barraging X with nonconsensual sexual images of real people. But now there are some numbers to put things in perspective. Over an 11-day period, Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images — including an estimated 23,000 of children.Put another way, Grok generated an estimated 190 sexualized images per minute during that 11-day period. Among those, it made a sexualized image of children once... Read more ›
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The alleged risks of being publicly identified have not stopped DHS and ICE employees from creating profiles on LinkedIn, even as Kristi Noem threatens to treat revealing agents' identities as a crime. Read more ›
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The nominees for the 2026 Academy Awards were just announced and Ryan Coogler's vampire-adjacent period drama Sinners received a record-breaking 16 nominations. That's the highest number of Oscar nominations for a single film in the history of the awards, followed by Titanic, La La Land and All About Eve with 14 noms each. Sinners grabbed a nomination in nearly every major category, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original... Read more ›
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Xbox showed off new footage of its Fable reboot during its Developer Direct on Thursday and announced that the game is set to launch this autumn for Xbox, PC, and PS5. The new Fable is an open world action-RPG. In addition to letting you customize your character and your combat skills, you can also do […] Read more ›
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While billions pour into horizontal AI agents that struggle in production, one NYC company has quietly processed 300 million real customer calls. Flip CX just closed $20M co-led by Next Coast Ventures and Ridge Ventures with a bold thesis: vertical specialization beats generalist AI every time. With 250 global brands including Under Armour and Tory Burch now automating up to 90% of their phone support through Flip's platform, the race... Read more ›
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