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A rare decline in overall U.S. household debt has masked the fact that consumers are still adding balances to the forms of credit most closely tied to everyday spending and purchases. Total household debt slipped by $13 billion in the second quarter to $1

The Coinbase Business suite now allows businesses to get paid by artificial intelligence agents, Coinbase said in a Tuesday (Aug. 11) blog post. "The same checkouts you already use can now accept payments from AI agents via x402, an open standard for mach

The internet's response to AI slop has mostly worked backward. Platforms scan content after it is already uploaded, then try to guess whether a machine wrote it, an inherently probabilistic bet that it is losing ground as synthetic content gets cheaper to

The White House has ended its ban on the use of TikTok on federal government devices, saying the shift of the app's U.S. operations to American investors has made it no longer a national security threat, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Aug. 11). The Office of

Anthropic has begun labeling its models' content as AI-generated to comply with new European Union regulations. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup noted the change on the support page for its Claude model Tuesday (Aug. 11), saying it came in respons

Private credit firms are reportedly moving away from an industry perk called payment in kind. As the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday (Aug. 11), payments in kind (PIK) have become a widely-used "sweetener" in the private credit space, a sort of

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union has debuted a rewards promotion in response to increasing gas prices. The limited time credit card rewards program, announced Tuesday (Aug. 11), is designed to help the credit union's members earn more on gas and electric

Before PepsiCo spends money physically expanding a plant, it builds a digital twin of that plant first. Using Siemens' Digital Twin Composer and running on Nvidia's Omniverse platform, PepsiCo recreates every machine, conveyor, pallet route and operator p

zerohash now enables its client base of banks, brokerages and payment companies to connect to Robinhood Chain and the assets running on it, including Global Dollar (USDG), the company said in a Tuesday (Aug. 11) press release. This capability is enabled b