For the better half of the last three years, the prevalence of AI in finance had been largely relegated to a chatbot bolted onto a dashboard. Its capabilities were limited to simple explanations and not direct action (such as executing transactions, pl…

Digital advertising is entering another structural shift. For years, the industry has been organized around webpages, search queries, social feeds, mobile apps, and increasingly connected television. Now, as consumers move from clicking through interfa…

For the longest time, the tech industry’s unofficial motto was “if the product is free, you are the product.” Most of us just accepted it. But after a decade of data scandals, tracking revelations, and privacy blunders, that logic is starting to feel d…

They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have been best friends ever since. They were fifteen when the pandemic hit, and they decided to sell…

It lets autonomous machines confirm they are interacting with real people without learning their identities August 21, 2026: Robots and autonomous machines running peaqOS can now verify whether they are interacting with a real human through World ID, f…

At just 23, Sean Grindal is betting on an idea he has watched take shape across a decade in software: that the hardest part of AI tools is no longer what they can do, but how few people can figure out how to use them. In a category racing to add featur…

Voice AI in the drive-thru is becoming less of an experiment and more of an operating decision for quick-service restaurants. Food On Demand recently reported that Taco Bell has expanded its voice AI technology to more than 890 U.S. restaurants across …

Every revenue leader now has AI somewhere in the deal cycle. It drafts the proposal, suggests the discount, recommends the next move, and does it all in seconds. The speed is real. But a recommendation is not a decision. When AI proposes a price or a d…