How Invisible Payments Are Forcing Digital Identity to Evolve
As real-time commerce accelerates, the future of authentication isn’t about remembering. It’s about being recognized. “Passwords are dinosaurs,”…
Prediction Market Boom Blurs Line Between Trading and Gambling
The prediction-market moment is here. At its best, the embrace of events-based contracts could represent a new asset-class:…
Apple Pay Turns 11 and Its Rivals Are Catching Up
Digital wallets have reached a turning point. Weekly in-store usage has more than doubled year over year, and…
AWS Outage Briefly Shutters Broad Swaths of the Internet
Amazon Web Services says it has fixed the massive outage reported Monday (Oct. 20). That outage impacted millions of…
Fed’s Beige Book Finds Growth Flat, Uncertainty Rising
The Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book paints a familiar picture of an economy searching for direction, one defined…
The BNPL Story Everyone’s Getting Wrong. NEXT newsletter.
Easy loans are luring millions of Americans into a dangerous cycle of debt. Young people, particularly college students,…
Goldman Estimates Consumers Will Pay Half of Tariff Costs
It is now broadly accepted that U.S. households have already been absorbing at least some portion of trade…
Apple Reorganizes Health and Fitness Divisions
Apple is reportedly reorganizing some of its divisions as the retirement of former Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams…
How CFOs and CIOs Are Facing the Hidden Costs of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) entered the business world with a promise of speed and savings. It’s now showing up…
OpenAI Aims to Standardize How to Build AI Agents
OpenAI introduced AgentKit, a platform that enables companies to build and manage AI agents capable of performing defined…