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The $100 Million Question Facing Stablecoins’ Corporate Future

A Fortune 500 treasurer considering whether to leave $100 million in stablecoins overnight would probably ask a different set of questions than a payments executive deciding whether to use them to settle a transaction. Who legally owes the company the money? What assets stand behind the token? Where are those reserves held? How quickly can […]
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The AI Investment Numbers Are Staggering – But Adoption Is a Different Story

There’s a gap at the heart of the global AI conversation, and it’s bigger than most people realize. Governments and corporations are pouring hundreds of billions into artificial intelligence infrastructure, yet U.S. enterprise AI adoption sat below 10% as recently as Q2 2025. The money is moving fast. The transformation? Still catching up.
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Spar Scotland donates £13,000 to local causes

Spar Scotland has awarded a combined £13,000 to two local causes through Spar’s 2026 Community Cashback grant scheme, helping grassroots groups continue their vital work across Scottish communities. This year’s recipients, Cetacean Research & Rescue Unit (CRRU) and Missing Pets Dundee & Angus, each play… This story continues at Spar Scotland donates £13,000 to local […]
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Startup Screening vs Evaluation Market Data

Investors sort through hundreds of startups every year, and the path from first glance to funding decision runs through two distinct phases: screening and evaluation. Each phase calls for different market forecast data. Getting the data priorities wrong at either stage wastes time and money. In this guide, BCC Research breaks down which data inputs […]
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Clarity Act Impasse Leaves Regulators Setting Crypto Policy

With crypto legislation stalled, U.S. regulators are moving in to set policies of their own. But as Reuters reported Tuesday (Aug. 18), this has led to concerns in the digital asset industry that these rules could be revoked by future administrations. While cryptocurrency companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying for legislation that will provide […]
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Monzo Chair Departs Following Last Year’s Shareholder Backlash

Monzo’s chairman is reportedly departing the British neobank months after shareholders lobbied for his removal. Gary Hoffman, who joined Monzo in 2019, will leave his post next month, the Financial Times reported Monday (Aug. 17). The report points out that Hoffman’s departure comes months after investors last year called for his ouster after the board […]
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Malachyte Turns Spotify’s Skip Signal Into a Merchant’s Agentic Edge

Watch more: Digital Shift With Malachyte’s Sidd Motwani Spotify solved a problem that most digital merchants still haven’t: how to understand who shows up to shop but prefers to do that without registering or checking in. For Spotify, an anonymous listener arrives with no profile, no playlist history and no declared preference. Spotify must decide […]
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The Grocery Store Isn’t the Destination Anymore: The Consumer Is

  Mapping the New Retail Foodservice Melting Pot, For decades, the grocery store was the center of the American food universe according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru®  at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Consumers went to the supermarket to buy ingredients. They went home to cook them. Restaurants were where they went when they wanted […]
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Wonder and Serve Robotics bring robot delivery to Grubhub marketplace in Chicago, Los Angeles, Alexandria

Wonder is partnering with Serve Robotics to bring autonomous delivery to customers in Chicago, Los Angeles and Alexandria on the Grubhub marketplace. The launch expands robot delivery across more than 100 participating merchants in Chicago and nearly 200 in Los Angeles, while also bringing the technology to Wonder’s Potomac Yard location in Alexandria. “A year […]
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Square Accelerates Push to Integrate Small Business Finance

Square’s refresh of its Square Credit Card, which was announced last week, is part of parent company Block’s broader strategy to more closely integrate payments, banking, credit and bill management within its platform, American Banker reported Monday (Aug. 17), citing its interview with Andrea Raj, head of product for Square Money. Square is also working to address the need for […]
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Corporate America’s Top 1% Spend $7,400 Per Employee on AI

The top 1% of U.S. businesses spent a median of $7,400 per employee on artificial intelligence in July, while the top 10% spent roughly $650, according to the Ramp AI Index released Aug. 12. The median company spent just $11.95 per employee. That gap leaves the heaviest spenders with AI budgets more than 600 times […]
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X Money Wants to Make the Feed a Financial Front Door

Digital wallets have made the phone a familiar place to pay. X Money is testing whether a social platform can claim a place in that payment routine. Consumers already have wallets on their phones, stored credentials at merchants and payment apps that reduce the work required to complete a transaction. But success is no layup: […]
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Stripe’s $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Turns AI Spend Into a New Treasury Lever

The next corporate spender may not carry a company card, submit an expense report or even be a person. It may be software. Technology markets can create value at abstraction layers. Stripe could be making that growth bet across payments. The privately held FinTech company reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire artificial intelligence gateway startup […]
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Wispr Flow Raises $280 Million and Debuts Voice AI Model

Voice artificial intelligence (AI) startup Wispr Flow is now a $2 billion company after raising $280 million. The company’s Series B round, announced Monday (Aug. 17), comes as Wispr Flow is debuting its latest speech model to address changing needs around voice-to-text technology. “For most of the last decade, talking to a computer meant asking […]
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Coldcard Breach Losses Now Exceed $115 Million

Losses from a recent security incident involving Coldcard hardware wallets have now surpassed $115 million. That’s according to Galaxy Research, which posted those calculations on X Sunday (Aug. 16), saying they were based on its data through Aug. 13. The company added it has spoken with more than 200 victims “to support them and gather intelligence on the attackers.” […]
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Uber Teams With Zipline to Expand Drone Delivery Service

Uber hopes to expand its U.S. delivery business by teaming with drone company Zipline. Starting later this year, Uber Eats customers in the U.S. will get the option of having orders delivered “in minutes” through Zipline’s autonomous drone delivery, Uber said in a Monday (Aug. 17) news release. Uber is also investing in Zipline as […]
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Albertsons AI Assistants Drive Immediate 26% Basket Growth Among Early Adopters

Grocery retailer Albertsons Companies found that the customers who begin using its artificial intelligence-powered online shopping experience make larger purchases almost immediately, Jill Pavlovich, senior vice president of digital shopping experiences at Albertsons, told The Wall Street Journal in a report published Monday (Aug. 17). Albertsons has seen the average order value of these customers […]
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Higgsfield Raises $400 Million for AI Video Platform

AI video generation platform Higgsfield is now a $5.4 billion company. The company achieved that valuation as it raised $400 million in a Series B funding round, Higgsfield announced Monday (Aug. 17). The startup says it will use the new funding to expand its time and scale its go-to-market efforts as it courts new business customers. “Every business […]
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Banks Built for Paychecks Meet the Cash Flow Generation

For much of the past century, banking products evolved around the regular paycheck. But findings in the August 2026 edition of The Millennial Playbook, a report by PYMNTS Intelligence, reveal that as work becomes more fragmented, simply holding the checking account may become less valuable than helping customers manage when money arrives, how long it […]
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Consumer appetite high for DRS, research finds

Retailers are set to play a vital role in the UK’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), with more than two-thirds (68%)1 of consumers saying they would be likely to return drinks containers during a shopping trip once the scheme launches next year, according to new research from… This story continues at Consumer appetite high for DRS, research […]
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The AI Scarlet Letter

This cartoon was partly inspired by the whiplash approach to AI writing at LinkedIn. A few years ago, they indiscriminately pushed AI tools, offering to draft a full post after typing just 30 words. Surprise, surprise, this resulted in a lot of AI slop on the platform. A recent study from Pangram Labs claims that […]
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Legal Departments Move From Testing AI to Governing It

For decades, the legal department was one of the last enterprise functions to adopt new technology at scale. The work was too nuanced, the stakes too high, and the profession too cautious. Generative AI changed the pace of experimentation. Agentic AI is changing the pace of deployment, and this week the Prompt Economy turns its […]
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Grocer, Who’s Watching the Store When You Should Be Watching the Customer?

  The Grocery Industry Has Become Exceptionally Good at Watching Shelves, Categories and Inventory—and Surprisingly Bad at Watching Where the Customer Is Going You have all heard the old grocery adage: “Stack ’em high and let ’em fly.” For generations, that was grocery retailing in a nutshell. Keep the shelves full, keep the displays attractive, […]
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When AI Becomes the Travel Agent, Who Owns the Journey?

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Booking Holdings’ Daniel Marovitz Travel has always had a front door and an operating layer. The front door was the search box, the app or the website. The operating layer was everything the consumer rarely saw: payments, currencies, supplier relationships, fraud controls, compliance, refunds and service. AI is collapsing the […]
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From Fiber Maxxing to GLP-1: The Vitamin Shoppe CEO Sharon Leite on Wellness Retail’s Biggest Trends

This episode is brought to you by Lightspeed. From fiber maxxing and liver health to GLP-1 support and protein-packed everything, wellness trends are evolving faster than ever. For retailers, the challenge isn’t just keeping up, it’s helping customers separate hype from lasting habits. In this episode of Retail Remix, Kate Robertson sits down with Sharon […]
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Bullring Birmingham shopping centre boosts online visitor experience as AI powered engagement rises

Bullring Birmingham says it has transformed its website into a faster, mobile first digital experience designed to help shoppers find relevant brands, offers, and events before they arrive at the destination. The revamped platform has increased sessions to 1.6 times their previous level, improved page load speeds by 60% and is now handling around 1,000 […]
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Co-op Group Chief Technology Officer Robert Elsey becomes retailer’s latest high profile departure

Co-op’s Group CTO Robert Elsey is set to leave the business in October, with the retailer hopeful of naming his replacement before he departs. Elsey joined Co-op in 2021 and guided it through last year’s high profile cyber attack. Prior to that, he was CTO and then CIO at Bank of England. The role at […]
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5 Things NOT to Do When Pitching to a Retail Buyer (and What to Do Instead)

Pitching your product to a retail buyer can be one of the most exciting—and nerve-racking—moments for any product manufacturer. The stakes are high, competition is fierce, and buyers are constantly evaluating which brands deserve a spot on their shelves. Landing a retail deal can mean massive brand exposure, increased credibility, and a major jump in […]
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July E-Grocery Sales Up 21.5 Percent YOY

The July Brick Meets Click Grocery Shopping Survey is out, showing that total e-grocery sales were up 21.5 percent, primarily driven by continued growth – almost 15 percent – in average order frequency. A critical note from the report:   “Where there is growth in overall grocery spending, it comes from online sales. In contrast […]
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Kroger acquiring Giant Eagle in $1.65B deal

Kroger Co. is acquiring Giant Eagle, a family-owned food and pharmacy retailer, for a purchase price of $1.65 billion. Giant Eagle has approximately $9 billion in annual sales and 197 supermarkets and 11 standalone pharmacies across northern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana, according to a press release. The purchase is comprised of […]
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