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Banks and insurers sit on mountains of data. Yet most of it stays trapped in silos. Fragmented systems slow decisions. They block the reliable agentic AI that executives now demand. FintechOS aims to change that equation. The company just expanded its work with Google Cloud. The move puts its latest platform directly onto the provider’s

General Motors has committed fresh billions to expand production inside the United States. The moves come as the automaker confronts slowing electric-vehicle sales, new tariffs on imports and a desire to protect high-margin truck and SUV revenue. The latest round centers on a $4 billion investment over two years at three key assembly plants. Orion

GitHub disclosed this week that hackers accessed and exfiltrated data from roughly 3,800 of its internal repositories. The breach originated from a single employee device compromised by a malicious Visual Studio Code extension. Short. Direct. And a stark reminder of how supply chain risks now strike even the platforms that host the world’s code. The

Larry Bushart spent 37 days in a rural Tennessee jail. His crime? Sharing a meme on Facebook. The image quoted President Donald Trump saying “We have to get over it” after a 2024 school shooting in Perry, Iowa. Bushart added the line “This seems relevant today.” He posted it in a local group planning a

Executives fill conference rooms with bold predictions. AI will upend hiring. It will slash headcounts. It will rewrite the rules of work within months. Svenja Gudell hears these claims often. As chief economist at Indeed, she pushes back. “I think we’re overestimating the speed at which we’re going to see this transformation,” Gudell told executives

Google took the stage in Mountain View on May 19 expecting cheers for its latest artificial intelligence advances. The audience offered silence instead. Presenters paused at scripted moments. No applause followed. The event carried an odd lag. It felt disconnected even from the developers and enthusiasts packed into the outdoor venue. Critics noticed immediately. AppleInsider

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey delivered a blunt assessment Wednesday. Food price controls cannot hold in the long run. His words landed as the Treasury abandoned plans to press supermarkets into voluntary caps on staples such as bread, milk and eggs. The episode reveals deep tensions in British economic policy. Officials scramble to shield

Google just declared the end of traditional search. At its I/O event this week the company detailed plans to turn its search box into an intelligent agent platform. Answers come first. Links fade into the background. The move sent shock waves through the industry. But Google does not stand alone. A clutch of well-funded startups

Discord has flipped the switch. Every voice and video call on the platform now runs protected by end-to-end encryption. No exceptions for direct messages, group chats, voice channels or Go Live streams. Stage channels remain the lone holdout. The change, finalized in early March and announced this week, marks the end of a multi-year push

Google announced sweeping changes to its Play Store at I/O 2026. The updates bring short-form video previews straight into the app discovery process. They add conversational artificial intelligence that understands context and follow-up questions. And they push the entire catalog into the Gemini assistant on Android and the web. The centerpiece carries a name that