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Twitch AI Training Opt-Out: What It Means for Creator Monetization Pay
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Twitch AI Training Opt-Out: What It Means for Creator Monetization Pay

Twitch added a new privacy setting on August 12 that lets streamers stop Amazon from using their content to train generative AI models. The catch is that the setting is switched on by default. Streamers who don’t find and disable it are automatically included.

Open Banking vs Open Finance: What Changes When FiDA Arrives in 2027
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Open Banking vs Open Finance: What Changes When FiDA Arrives in 2027

Open banking and open finance are often treated as the same idea at different stages of maturity. That framing is no longer accurate. The regulatory scope, the participants, and the political stakes have diverged enough that open finance now needs to be understood as its own contest centred on which companies get to sit inside […]

Amazon’s Custom AI Chips Business Surpasses $20B Run Rate
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Amazon’s Custom AI Chips Business Surpasses $20B Run Rate

Amazon’s investment in custom silicon is quickly turning into one of the company’s most important growth engines. In the wake of its latest earnings report, the company revealed that its custom chip portfolio, including Trainium AI accelerators, Graviton CPUs, and Nitro networking processors, has now exceeded a $20 billion annual revenue run rate.

Apple and Amazon Earnings Analyzed
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Apple and Amazon Earnings Analyzed

Apple and Amazon both topped Wall Street estimates in their latest quarterly reports, released within hours of each other on July 30. But the two companies got there in very different ways: one through hardware demand, the other largely through a paper gain on an AI investment.

Apple and Amazon Face the Final Test of Big Tech’s $725B AI Spending Bet
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Apple and Amazon Face the Final Test of Big Tech’s $725B AI Spending Bet

As Apple and Amazon get ready to disclose their quarterly profits following the closing of the markets this Thursday, investors are looking at more than just the revenues earned and the profits made. The outcomes will help wrap up the most recent Big Technology earnings season while influencing the continuation of Wall Street’s willingness to […]

Is It Safe to Link Your Bank Account to an AI Shopping Agent? 
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Is It Safe to Link Your Bank Account to an AI Shopping Agent? 

Skillful AI shopping agents can now find a product, fill a cart, and pay for it without the user even opening a browser tab. Amazon, Google, and OpenAI have each shipped a version of this over the past year, though all three do not work the same way. The safety question therefore is not as […]

Amazon, OpenAI, and Natural Chase Different Cuts of Agentic Checkout
Fintech & Ecommerce

Amazon, OpenAI, and Natural Chase Different Cuts of Agentic Checkout

Autonomous checkout has moved from demo to disputed business model within a single year. Amazon’s Rufus-powered “Buy for Me” now completes purchases on external retailer sites on a shopper’s behalf. OpenAI tried a native 4% checkout fee inside ChatGPT and pulled it after six months. A new startup, Natural, has raised $30 million to build […]

Apple and Amazon Push Embedded Finance Further Into the Checkout Experience
Fintech & Ecommerce

Apple and Amazon Push Embedded Finance Further Into the Checkout Experience

Apple and Amazon have put embedded finance back in the spotlight this week. While Apple is preparing to launch a new financing program for its devices, Amazon Business is renewing attention around its existing partnership with Affirm. Such a synchronization among Big Tech players underscore the growing role of installment payments as an integrated part […]

Why Pay By Bank Fragmentation Is a Sign of Market Maturity, Not Failure: Explains Token.io CEO
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Why Pay By Bank Fragmentation Is a Sign of Market Maturity, Not Failure: Explains Token.io CEO

Pay by Bank is working. Fragmentation Proves It. By Todd Clyde, CEO of Token.io

AWS: Only 22% Of European Businesses Use AI For Advanced Use Cases
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AWS: Only 22% Of European Businesses Use AI For Advanced Use Cases

More than half of European businesses now use AI, but fewer than a quarter have reached the most advanced stage of adoption, according to Sasha Rubel, Head of AI and Generative AI Policy, EMEA, at Amazon Web Services (AWS). “Less than a quarter have reached the most advanced stage of adoption, using it primarily for […]

Global Tech Leaders Converge in Berlin to Set New AI Directions for Europe’s €1.5 Trillion Tech Economy
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Global Tech Leaders Converge in Berlin to Set New AI Directions for Europe’s €1.5 Trillion Tech Economy

Ministers, enterprise tech leaders, founders and investors from 80+ countries drive consensus on sovereignty, scalability and AI competitiveness at GITEX AI EUROPE 2026

The Case for Modular Finance
Fintech & Ecommerce

The Case for Modular Finance

A subtle but significant change is underway when it comes to how financial services reach the businesses and consumers who need them. The headline story of fintech disruption over the past decade has focused on neobanks displacing high street institutions and payment apps reshaping how money moves. The deeper story, less visible but arguably more […]

iFX EXPO International Launches iFX Hack 2026, a 24 Hour Trading & Fintech Hackathon Powered by AWS
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iFX EXPO International Launches iFX Hack 2026, a 24 Hour Trading & Fintech Hackathon Powered by AWS

iFX EXPO International has announced the launch of iFX Hack 2026, a 24 hour Trading & Fintech Hackathon powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), bringing together developers, students, fintech professionals, entrepreneurs, traders, designers, and innovators to build solutions addressing real world challenges across trading, financial services, artificial intelligence, payments, and technology.

Amazon Introduces AgentCore Payments With Stablecoin Support From Coinbase And Stripe
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Amazon Introduces AgentCore Payments With Stablecoin Support From Coinbase And Stripe

Amazon Web Services announced a preview version of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments on May 7. The feature allows AI agents built on the AgentCore platform to make payments for APIs, web content, MCP servers and other digital services during task execution.

Biometrics vs Privacy: Why Palm Payments Like Amazon One or Tencent & Visa Projects Would Face EU Legal Risks After Limited U.S. Adoption
Fintech & Ecommerce

Biometrics vs Privacy: Why Palm Payments Like Amazon One or Tencent & Visa Projects Would Face EU Legal Risks After Limited U.S. Adoption

Palm-based biometric payments, once promoted as a frictionless alternative to cards and mobile wallets, are likely to face legal challenges in the European Union, even as their rollout in the United States has shown mixed results.

Amazon Web Services Expands Amazon Connect Into Four-Product Suite, Announces OpenAI Partnership on Bedrock
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Amazon Web Services Expands Amazon Connect Into Four-Product Suite, Announces OpenAI Partnership on Bedrock

Amazon Web Services announced a set of product expansions at its “What’s Next with AWS” event, including a restructuring of Amazon Connect, updates to Amazon Quick, and an expanded partnership with OpenAI to bring its models, Codex, and a new managed agents service to Amazon Bedrock — all in limited preview.