USD1 Crosses $3 Billion Milestone
USD1 has officially surpassed $3 billion in market capitalization, marking a major milestone for the fast-emerging stablecoin and signaling accelerating momentum across both Web2 and Web3 ecosystems.
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Inside the Technology Shifts That Reshaped Payments and Risk in 2025
In 2025, payments, banking and commerce crossed a quiet but consequential threshold. Technologies that once promised efficiency or differentiation became nonnegotiable foundations, reshaping how money...
Amazon Tightens Platform Access as AI Shopping Agents Expand
Amazon is moving quickly to contain a new threat to its eCommerce dominance as AI-powered shopping bots begin to reshape how consumers discover and buy products online.
The company is bloc...
Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
The holiday shopping period compresses weeks of spending into days, multiplies the number of online interactions, and makes consumers and companies vulnerable to fraudsters.
That anxiety is...
Amazon adds Angi, Expedia, Square and Yelp to Alexa+
Amazon announced on Thursday that its AI-powered digital assistant Alexa+ will integrate with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp starting in 2026 to enable users to book hotels, obtain home-service quote...
Retail Closes the Holiday Season Leaner and More Focused
Retail in 2025 was defined less by a single breakthrough than by a set of pressures that forced retailers to get practical. Consumers kept shopping. But they did it with a sharper pencil, trading down...
Porsche 2025 holiday ad goes viral for using absolutely no AI
Porsche released a Christmas advertisement featuring hand-drawn and 3D animation, produced by Parallel Studio. The short depicts a man and his Porsche attending car meets and taking nighttime drives d...
Big Tech Moves Toward Specialized AI and Immersive Retail
From new multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) models to immersive storytelling spaces and agent-driven enterprise tools, Big Tech’s latest moves show AI becoming the connective tissue across prod...
