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Finastra Launches Supply Chain Finance Platform for Banks at Sibos
Finastra's new Supply Chain Finance product wires banks' Trade Innovation and Loan IQ systems directly into corporate ERP platforms.
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Amazon Now Lets Merchants Put Prime Delivery on Their Own Websites
Amazon's Multichannel Fulfillment merchants can now offer Prime delivery on their own websites at no cost beyond standard fulfillment fees.
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Salesforce Suffers Global Outage on Day Two of Dreamforce 2026
An overloaded internal login service knocked Salesforce offline worldwide for about three hours during its own Dreamforce conference.
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Amazon Lets Outside AI Agents Run Sellers' Stores, Starting With Claude
A new Amazon beta plugin lets third-party sellers manage pricing, inventory and listings from Claude or Amazon Quick instead of logging into Seller Central.
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Ema Raises $77M as AI Agents Push Into Enterprise Software's Turf
Ema's $77 million round funds AI agents built to run HR, IT and finance work now handled by software-as-a-service subscriptions and consultants.
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Vecna Robotics Raises $31M to Chain Warehouse Robots Into One Flow
Vecna's new funding targets connecting forklifts, tuggers and case-picking robots into a single automated flow instead of separate point tools.
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Aptean Buys Dutch Fleet Software Firm FleetGO from Main Capital
Aptean acquired FleetGO, a Dutch logistics platform serving DHL and Coop, days after a separate rival deal in the same software category.
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Descartes Buys Extensiv for $120 Million, Its Second Deal in Eight Days
Descartes paid $120 million for warehouse software maker Extensiv, its second logistics acquisition in eight days after buying freight platform Tai.
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Agility's Digit 5 Prices Warehouse Robots Like a Software Subscription
Agility Robotics' Digit 5 humanoid comes with a $8,500-a-month subscription price tag aimed straight at warehouse and logistics budgets.
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Silver Lake Merges Its Own Cegid and Silae Into an $11.6B AI Bet
Silver Lake is merging its majority-owned Cegid and Silae into one 10 billion euro software group built to fund AI features at scale.
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Nvidia's $12.93 Billion Hugging Face Deal Worries Open-Source AI Users
Nvidia will buy AI hosting hub Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, putting the field's shared model repository under one chipmaker's ownership.
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Oracle's Cloud Backlog Hits $664 Billion on AI Contract Boom
Oracle's Q1 FY2027 results show a $664 billion order backlog and 121% cloud infrastructure growth, driven by AI computing deals.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Ads Hit $1 Billion in Revenue Ahead of Its IPO
OpenAI's ChatGPT advertising business reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in under 200 days, still just 3.7% of total revenue.
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Bending Spoons Closes Its $1.285 Billion Purchase of Airtable
Bending Spoons has completed its $1.285 billion buyout of workflow platform Airtable, its first deal since going public.
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SoundHound AI Closes Its $43 Million Buyout of LivePerson
SoundHound AI completed its acquisition of LivePerson on September 4, merging voice AI with LivePerson's enterprise messaging platform.
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Descartes Buys Warehouse Software Maker Extensiv for $120 Million
Descartes acquired warehouse and fulfillment software maker Extensiv for $120 million, its second acquisition in eight days.
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AWS Buys DuckLabs, the Company Behind Analytics Database DuckDB
AWS is acquiring DuckLabs but says DuckDB will stay free, open source, and independently governed by its own foundation.
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Amazon's Mechanical Turk, the Original AI Data Mine, Is Closing
Amazon will shut Mechanical Turk on September 30, ending the 21-year-old crowdsourced labor platform that helped train early AI models.
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Walmart Will Build a $1.3 Billion Automated Fulfillment Center in Georgia
Walmart is investing $1.3 billion in a 1.5 million square foot automated fulfillment center in Carnesville, Georgia, creating 1,000 jobs.
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Nvidia Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, nearly double the valuation Hugging Face rejected from Nvidia in 2025.
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Gatik Raises $200M to Scale Driverless Middle-Mile Trucking
Gatik raised a $200 million round led by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund to grow its driverless box-truck fleet beyond a dozen vehicles.
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Cloudflare Logged 13 Incidents in 8 Days, One Still Unresolved
Cloudflare's status page recorded 13 incidents in eight days this month, and a customer's reported data loss remains unconfirmed.
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Descartes Buys Freight-Broker Software Maker Tai for $100 Million
Descartes Systems Group's 34th acquisition since 2017 adds an AI-powered transportation management system built for freight brokers.
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Amazon, Uber, DoorDash and Walmart All Bet on Drones in One Week
Four delivery giants expanded drone programs within days in August 2026, revealing a wide gap between targets and today's volume.