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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is reportedly preparing to introduce a prediction market in collaboration with Kalshi.
An announcement on the project could come as early as the next few days, CNBC reported Friday (Dec. 12), citing a source close to the matter. The source said that the partnership is not exclusive, though Kalshi will be the only prediction markets operator working with...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said Thursday (Dec. 12) that a federal appeals court’s decision in the company’s long-running legal battle with Apple marks “the beginning of true, untaxed competition in payments worldwide on iOS.”
The appeals court rejected Apple’s challenge to a judge’s ruling in April that the company defied an order having to do with a finding that it engaged in...
Holiday dinner used to be a meal. Now it’s a full-stack deployment: procurement, last-mile logistics, kitchen hardware and (inevitably) one device that “just needs to reconnect.” The turkey is still traditional, sure — but in 2025 the supporting cast includes sensors, apps, subscriptions and at least one screen that wants your attention as badly as your relatives do.
The holidays are...
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) plans to continue its regulatory reforms in 2026.
The regulator’s agenda includes reforms to liquidity risk management, Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering (BSA/AML) compliance and community bank regulation, Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V. Gould said in remarks delivered Friday (Dec. 12) at a meeting of the Financial...
Anthropologie, Chipotle and Starbucks have become the final lease signees at Walmart’s new Home Office, the 350-acre corporate campus in Bentonville, Arkansas, that offers amenities for the retailer’s associates, members of the local community and other visitors.
Together, the new lease signees complete the campus’ street-front retail lineup, Walmart said in a Wednesday (Dec. 10) press...
The traditional holiday shopping journey, a linear path of keyword searches, doom-scrolling and multi-step checkouts, is being dismantled in real-time. This season is seeing the rise of agentic commerce, where AI not only suggests products but also actively intermediates transactions.
Retailers expect AI-assisted commerce to play a larger role in how consumers discover, evaluate and...
Switzerland-based AMINA Bank has integrated Ripple Payments to reduce the friction between blockchain and traditional banking rails and enable the bank’s clients to move funds seamlessly.
This integration makes AMINA Bank, which is a Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)-regulated crypto bank with global reach, the first European bank to use this solution from Ripple, a...
Embedded finance is transforming not just how transactions happen but where financial relationships begin. What once sat at the edge of apps and platforms is now embedded directly into the daily workflows of consumers and businesses, pulling banks toward realizing new revenue streams and balance sheet growth.
At the center of this shift are digital connections. Application programming...
Airbnb is using technology to stop disruptive parties before they start.
The online marketplace for short-term rentals uses machine learning-powered “anti-party technology” to identify bookings that could be a higher risk for a disruptive party, it said in a Thursday (Dec. 11) press release.
When the technology identifies a potentially risky booking for an entire home listing by...
OpenAI said it is adding more safeguards to its artificial intelligence (AI) models amid rapid advancements in all AI models.
While the advancements in all AI models bring benefits for cyberdefense, they also bring dual-use risks, meaning they could be used for malicious purposes as well as defensive ones, the company said in a Wednesday (Dec. 10) blog post.
Demonstrating the...