Community and regional banks are under growing pressure to modernize lending experiences without rebuilding their infrastructure from scratch. That challenge is driving new partnerships between fintech providers focused on different parts of the lending stack. This week, Jifiti and Peach Finance announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping U.S. community and regional banks launch and manage digital lending programs ... Read more ›
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The golden rule about accents is that everyone’s got one. However, although the fodder of thousands of comedic impressions, there’s also a serious side to accents. Studies in the US, for instance, suggest that some regional accents are slowly fading. Subtle shifts have been observed in places like Texas and Boston, where traditional speech patterns ... Read more ›
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What if the most powerful use case for generative AI is not getting through to-do lists more quickly, but leveraging the technology as an emotional support tool? Burnout rates are at record highs: 83% of global workers reported suffering from burnout in 2026 – as compared to the 82% from 2025. To navigate this, workers ... Read more ›
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Sixteen years ago, I spent my only real vacation week of the year working for a client who already owed me roughly $50,000. The stretch between Christmas and New Year’s is sacred to me. It’s the one uninterrupted pause in a year that rarely slows down, the only time I truly unplug and recalibrate. That ... Read more ›
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Real estate entrepreneurs, AI innovators, and hundreds of representatives of multifamily owners will meet at the AIM Conference 2026 this May 3rd–6th at the Hyatt Regency in Huntington Beach. Created for multifamily housing professionals, the conference today has grown into a key gathering point for real estate owners, operators and tech providers to discuss the ... Read more ›
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2026 has been a bumper year for crises and volatility. From new wars threatening an energy crisis to AI giants eating away into a greater share of the tech market, we’re witnessing a time with little precedent for small businesses and startups. And while resilience is often framed in operational or financial terms, there is ... Read more ›
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Fernando Gaspar Barros didn’t set out to build a company culture consultancy. Instead, he wanted to put office workers on stage, giving them direct recognition and motivation for today’s volatile times. The idea was straightforward, almost absurdly so: what if employees at regular companies formed real bands and performed live? Not just at some awkward ... Read more ›
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“First, do no harm.” This is usually how The Hippocratic Oath is formulated and is the cornerstone of modern medicine that guides how we care for patients as well as how we create pharmaceuticals. But as technology advances, we are also witnessing therapies that can ease pain or do away with it altogether. Which raises ... Read more ›
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The idea has been sitting in a research paper since 2004: attribute-based encryption (ABE) is a cryptographic technique invented by Brent Waters, now the head of NTT Research’s cryptography lab, that allows data to be encrypted in layers so granular that different users see exactly what they’re authorized to see and nothing more. In practice, ... Read more ›
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In 2026, access to reliable energy continues to be an issue for communities across the globe. Puerto Rico is one of the most poignant examples of this. Last year, Puerto Rico’s national power grid was unable to generate a third of the electricity needed to meet peak demand, nearly a decade after the country was ... Read more ›
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After years of heavy investment into AI, companies are eager to see a return on their investment in 2026. If we take a look at the narrative, there are signs that this may be true. This quarter, executives have noticeably backed away from using the term “pilot” when discussing AI initiatives at the organization. This ... Read more ›
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Debbie, a New York fintech firm, has closed a $5.3 million USD seed round and launched Rewards 2.0, a cash rewards platform structured around building savings and reducing debt rather than incentivizing consumer spending. The round was led by Trustage Ventures and Reseda Group, with participation from One Way Ventures and Zeal Capital Partners – ... Read more ›
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There’s something a little off about the first time I meet Daniel Park, founder of Pickle. It’s not anything he says, exactly, but more in the way his image comes up during our short video call. A few minutes in, I ask him if he’s really there or if he has sent in a digital ... Read more ›
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Somewhere in Europe right now, a small business owner is waiting; they submitted a loan application days – maybe weeks – ago, and don’t know why a response is taking so long. They don’t know if they’ll be approved and, statistically, there’s a meaningful change they won’t be. This isn’t an edge case; the EU, ... Read more ›
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Moving email infrastructure sounds like a mundane IT task – ask anyone who has lived through a bad one, and they’ll tell you it’s anything but. In 2018, when Spain’s Banco Sabadell completed its acquisition of Edinburgh-based TSB Bank, the integration seemed straightforward enough on paper, but then the migration happened. Millions of customers were ... Read more ›
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Whatever happened to AI.com, the site that was supposed to make agentic AI popular for the masses following a splashy Super Bowl ad? At GTC 2026, NVIDIA may have helped answer that question. $70 Million for a Domain The AI.com story began with a record-breaking bet. Crypto.com’s Kris Marszalek acquired the domain in April 2025 for ... Read more ›
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AI voice agents are now ubiquitous, from walking us through a hotel reservation to booking our next doctor’s appointment. Voice agents can make things quicker, cheaper, and easier to access—but they also bring up some real ethical concerns that are hard to ignore. Will they displace humans in various industries? And how can we best ... Read more ›
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Latin America is one of the most active regions in terms of AI use, but just 23% of organizations are actually capturing economic value from it. AI systems are largely used on a relatively superficial level, mostly in the form of chatbots. One locally-based startup, however, is on a mission to change the region’s trajectory. ... Read more ›
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Software is the backbone of modern business, from keeping communications and data moving across the organization to running external tools that engage with customers. Further, software is no longer the sole preserve of organizations in the tech industry. It’s central to the business performance across all business verticals. Given its mission-critical importance, leaders often turn ... Read more ›
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Cell therapy gets plenty of attention for its science: engineered immune cells that hunt tumors; treatments that can put terminal cancer patients into remission; therapies that address diseases conventional medicine has never been able to touch. What gets talked about less is the part that happens before – the grinding, expensive, frequently failing process of ... Read more ›
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