Electric cars became cheaper in Germany despite rising average prices

With the U.S. buy now, pay later market predicted to increase to $423.08 billion in volume by 2031, according to ResearchandMarkets.com, BNPL providers are busily updating and developing their products. Among them are equipifi Inc., with a tweak to its decision utility, and Zip Co Ltd. enlisting Google Cloud as a venue to test and…

Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The following is a guest post from Prince Oppong, senior director of strategic finance at PayPal. Opinions are the author’s own. Traditional planning measures only what we do, not how the market answers. That blind spot is…

By many measures, China is fast catching up with the U.S. in AI development. Moonshot’s Kimi K3—the world’s largest open-weight model—has approached the performance of America’s frontier systems. Analysts estimate the best Chinese models are now just four months behind the most sophisticated releases from OpenAI and Anthropic, compared to seven months at the start…

SpaceX plans to purchase Grain Management’s 800 MHz spectrum portfolio in a move to bolster its mobile ambitions. The news is lifting cell-tower stocks.

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NS&I is raising its Premium Bonds prize fund rate from September, taking the total monthly prize pot close to £500 million. The government-backed savings bank will increase the prize fund rate from 3.80% to 4.35% from the September draw. NS&I says there will be more than 308,000 extra prizes up for grabs, including 12 additional…