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The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

If completed, the acquisition would unite two of the biggest names in digital payments.

The new exchange-traded funds exclude companies that are founded, controlled, or led by Elon Musk. That means no SpaceX or Tesla.

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Dilip Asbe said that newer UPI apps could be more competitive with a viable commercial model.

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Users will be able to access their watchlists, real-time market data, live financial news, and Google's AI-powered "Key Moments" feature, which explains why stocks moved.

The app would be independent of Meta's other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app.

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Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.

African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as an investor and partner.

Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood's CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note about layoffs.

JPMorgan can't be pleased by any of this.

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Ramp has nearly tripled its valuation over the past year as investors scramble to grab a part of the fast-growing startup.

The British fintech has built a waitlist of about 450,000 users in India as it prepares for a broader launch.

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