Goldman Sachs flags power and compute as two chokepoints in the AI boom

You split a $200 purchase into four payments through Klarna or Afterpay, paid every installment on time, and assumed it had nothing to do with your credit score. For years, that assumption held. Buy now, pay later loans mostly lived outside the credit reporting system. That is no longer guaranteed. FICO rolled out new scoring…

The trillion-dollar question hovering around agentic commerce is why agents would hold money at all. After all, if a multinational eventually operates, say, 10,000 artificial intelligence agents buying software, booking travel, procuring inventory, managing advertising and negotiating with suppliers; then funding 10,000 separate accounts would reproduce one of corporate finance’s oldest problems at machine scale:…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. As a CFO, you share responsibility with the board of directors for assessing and mitigating risk and aligning it with the company’s strategy. But how confident are you that the board is holding up its end of…

Canada, the report argues, is well positioned to compete for a larger share of that capital but faces structural hurdles that have historically left it underinvested relative to its potential. Where the opportunity lies The report examines five sectors it identifies as the most realistic near-term destinations for foreign capital: liquefied natural gas (LNG), mining,…

Stocks kicked off September on shaky footing as higher oil prices and Treasury yields tested investors’ appetite for some of the market’s biggest artificial intelligence winners. For the week, the S & P 500 eked out a 0.1% gain, while the Nasdaq gained 0.4%, recovering from a rough start to the historically difficult month of…

Debit is the workforce of payments: simple for consumers, relatively inexpensive for merchants, and ubiquitous in everyday transactions. But beneath that no-frills experience lies a surprisingly complex ecosystem of issuers, acquirers, merchants, processors, and card networks. For years, that complexity was largely invisible to consumers—and often secondary for financial institutions. But as more debit transactions…