Новости за 21.02.2026

Every Oscars season, Hollywood celebrates “human artistry” while quietly adopting whatever tech makes the deadline less terrifying. This year, artificial intelligence (AI) is the newest crew member: it doesn’t need a trailer, and it definitely won’t complain about craft-services hummus. The only catch? Nobody wants it walking the red carpet. The Academy’s Neutrality Is […]

Inscope raised $14.5 million in a Series A funding round to increase the adoption and the capabilities of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered financial reporting platform designed for use by both enterprises and their accounting firms. The round brings the company’s total funding to $18.8 million, including the $4.3 million it raised in a seed round announced in […]

First Citizens BancShares is looking to make acquisitions that will give it the scale needed to deal with the additional regulations that come into effect when a bank reaches $250 billion in assets, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. 20), citing unnamed sources. The bank had $230 billion in assets at the end of December, according to the […]

For the last two years, enterprise artificial intelligence has been stuck in the assistant phase, a world of smarter emails and faster document summaries that boosted individual productivity but left core business logic untouched. Now, the novelty of the chatbot is giving way to the utility of the agent. The industry is pivoting from […]

Saks Global received court approval Friday (Feb. 20) for a $1 billion bankruptcy loan, Reuters reported Friday. The financing had been held up by vendors’ concerns that they may not get paid for goods they shipped to the luxury retailer before it declared bankruptcy, according to the report. Saks Global resolved those concerns before […]

Consumers continue to shoulder the expansion of the U.S. economy, even as late-year data reveal a more deliberate spending posture and a softer pace of overall growth. Income Growth Moderates as Spending Holds The Bureau of Economic Analysis data for December, released Friday (Feb. 20), showd personal income rising 0.3% month over month, while […]

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse thinks there is a 90% chance the CLARITY Act will be signed into law by the end of April, he said in a Thursday (Feb. 19) interview on Fox Business. “The White House is pushing hard on this, and I think that is a big reason why it will get […]