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Retail Built Checkout for AI Agents Before Fixing Its Own Margins
A look at why retail spent the last year building checkout infrastructure for AI shopping agents while its existing delivery model, quick commerce, still hasn't solved its unit economics.
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6sense, Sprinklr and SAS Wire AI Agents Into Core Platforms
6sense, Sprinklr and SAS shipped agent-facing product releases within a two-week span in July 2026, each solving a different piece of the same problem: getting platform data in front of AI agents instead of dashboards.
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Microsoft Patches Actively Exploited AD FS Zero-Day
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed an Active Directory Federation Services flaw that was already being exploited when the patch shipped, and CISA added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog the same day.
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Moonshot, xAI and Alibaba Race to Ship Frontier-Scale Models
Three AI labs released or previewed frontier-scale models within eleven days in July, each betting on a different lever: cost, open licensing, or raw scale.
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La-Z-Boy Expands 3D Cloud Rendering Across Its Digital Storefronts
La-Z-Boy is scaling API-based 3D Cloud rendering technology across its retail and wholesale channels to generate on-demand images of every product and fabric combination it sells.
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FDA's Draft MDUFA VI Letter Expands AI Review Commitments
FDA posted its draft MDUFA VI commitment letter on July 7, 2026, setting device review performance goals through fiscal year 2032 and new commitments on artificial intelligence and digital health oversight.
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SAP and Actian Buy Their Way Into the Data Platform Layer
SAP and Actian each closed acquisitions on the same day in July, adding lakehouse and embedded-analytics technology to their platforms by buying rather than building.
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What Source-to-Pay Software Actually Buys You
A plain-language look at what source-to-pay suites do, why supplier risk scoring has become part of the same buying decision, and what to check before signing.
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Swift's Bank Ledger Goes Live as Payments Power Shifts on Two Fronts
Swift's new blockchain settlement ledger went live with 17 global banks the same month Revolut won a full Australian banking licence and India's two largest UPI apps lost ground for the first time.
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FDA Clears Tempus AI Tool for Detecting Pulmonary Hypertension on ECGs
The FDA cleared Tempus AI's ECG-PH software, which flags signs of pulmonary hypertension from a standard electrocardiogram, marking the company's third cardiovascular AI clearance this year.
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What ClickBench Actually Tells You About Warehouse Speed
An explainer on ClickBench, the open benchmark vendors cite when claiming the fastest analytical database, covering what its recent DuckDB and MotherDuck rankings show and what the benchmark does not measure.
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HubSpot Moves Its AI Sales Agents to Pay-Per-Lead Pricing
HubSpot switched its Breeze Prospecting and Customer Agents to pay-per-result pricing in April 2026, joining Zendesk, Salesforce and Intercom in a shift that changes how sales teams budget for AI tools and what they need to check before buying one.
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