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Remember when companies could tweak a privacy policy and coast for a few years? That era is over.
A new wave of state-level data privacy laws is landing faster than firms can process, reshaping the compliance landscape, particularly across eCommerce and healthcare, into a high-stakes game of regulatory catch-up.
As of reporting, there are 15 states with sweeping consumer privacy laws...
Amazon is increasing pay and benefits for its fulfillment and transportation employees in the United States.
The company is increasing the average pay for these employees to more than $23 per hour, lowering the cost of its entry-level health plan to $5 per week with $5 copays, and raising the annual progression increases that deliver bigger increases when employees stay with the...
AI could transform trade by 2040, a new World Trade Organization (WTO) report finds.
With the right policies in place, artificial intelligence (AI) could increase the value of cross-border flows of goods and services by nearly 40% by 2040, due to productivity gains and lower trade cost, the WTO said in its 2025 World Trade Report, released Wednesday (Sept. 17).
But without targeted...
The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority is reportedly planning to exempt cryptocurrency companies from some of its rules.
David Geale, executive director for payments and digital finance at the FCA, said a “lift and drop” of traditional finance rules would not be effective when applied to the crypto industry, the Financial Times reported Wednesday (Sept. 17).
The FCA proposals...
A year after introducing Project Amelia as a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant to answer seller questions, Amazon has upgraded the tool with agentic AI that can reason, plan and take actions with a seller’s approval.
The company said in a press release Wednesday (Sept. 17) the enhanced Seller Assistant now goes beyond Q...
Regulators and law enforcement agencies in Singapore are taking steps to target so-called “scam mules.”
This effort was announced Wednesday (Sept. 17) by the Singapore Police Force, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Infocomm Media Development Authority, and Government Technology Agency of Singapore.
These groups contend that scams continue to be a major problem for the city-state, with...
There’s a little of my mother in my grocery cart. Downy Fabric Softener, Reynolds Wrap and Philadelphia Cream Cheese are brands I still buy without thinking. They were always in her kitchen, symbols of quality and trust. Price didn’t matter. Once a brand earned her loyalty, she stuck with it. I’ve carried that habit with me. Strong brands don’t just sell products. They create memories...
OpenAI is working on measures aimed at protecting younger users of ChatGPT.
The artificial intelligence (AI) startup announced Tuesday (Sept. 16) that it plans to create an automated age-prediction system that can determine whether users of its chatbot are over 18, sending younger users to an age-restricted version of ChatGPT.
The company also says it is also working on parental...
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The United Kingdom’s open banking experiment began with high hopes and hard lessons. Adoption has grown steadily, with millions of U.K. consumers now sharing bank data with trusted third-party providers to access budgeting tools, faster payments and credit offers.
But the road from concept to...
In today’s economy, speed sells. Whether it’s groceries at your doorstep in 15 minutes or rideshare pickups within two, consumers have been trained to expect immediacy.
Findings in the latest “Money Mobility Tracker®” from PYMNTS Intelligence, “Race Against Time: How Urgency Shapes the Demand for Instant Lending Payouts,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, reveal that urgency as a...