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Finance

Why American Express Doesn’t Fear an Agentic AI Shop-ocalypse

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Is it possible Citrini underestimated the dopamine rush Millennials get when they use credit card points to book a “free” flight to Bali?

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Technology

Will MANGO Inherit Magnificent 7’s Market Dominance?

Change is the universal constant and even the Magnificent 7, being reshaped by AI upheaval, isn’t immune. Here’s what you should know.

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Artificial Intelligence

Amazon-Perplexity Lawsuit Heralds Start of Shop-Bot Wars

This week, Amazeon scored a court order against Perplexity to ban, for now, the AI startup’s agents from shopping on its e-commerce platform.

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Big Tech

Amazon Plans Thousands of Satellite Launches to Narrow Gap with Elon Musk’s Starlink

The space race is on to build the biggest satellite internet network, and Amazon has some catching up to do.

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Wins Pentagon Work as Altman Tries to Square Circular Deals after Raising $110B

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Backing from Nvidia and Amazon made it the latest circular deal, in which money-losing AI startups are being financed by their own customers.

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Media & Entertainment

Does Spotify Still Have the (Pricing) Power?

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Earlier this month, Spotify’s monthly Premium subscription fee for US users went up $1 to $12.99 per month.

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Artificial Intelligence

Bubble Fears Not Spoiling Billion-Dollar AI Buildout Plans in ’26 … Yet

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With an estimated half a million workers needed to fill the construction industry’s labor shortages, AI investments this year may get stalled.

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