Cross-border intelligence

Currency Costs Test the Promise of Cross-Border Payment Bundles

Small businesses in the United States purchasing overseas want faster payments, lower fees and better exchange rates. Financial providers are combining accounts, currency management and spending services around that activity. The PYMNTS Int

RICO case against CH Robinson & TQL: motions find the fault lines – and Ohio is the surprise

Right, so: only a few weeks after I mapped where the racketeering case against CH Robinson and Total Quality Logistics was most exposed, TQL has asked a Texas court to end it. The arguments are familiar. The Ohio forum-selection clause is n

Beyond Yoga aims to have ‘many’ stores. They’ll probably be yellow.

CEO Nancy Green says the brand color is reflective of a broader focus on joy — and making progress over perfection.

Banks Crack Down on Unauthorized AI Agents Operating Inside Customer Accounts

Major U.S. banks are detecting and deleting unauthorized third-party artificial intelligence agents that are taking actions inside customer accounts, Reuters reported Thursday (Oct. 22), citing a paywalled article by Axios. Some of the agen

Stop guessing auto scaling targets for TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI

Teams deploying custom text-to-speech models on Amazon SageMaker AI often guess at autoscaling thresholds, and a wrong guess either wastes GPU spend or breaches a latency SLO. This post deploys Kokoro-82M as a custom container and derives a

David’s Bridal to spin off Pearl into stand-alone, publicly traded company

David’s Bridal CEO Kelly Cook is expected to become the chief executive of Pearl, which will own the wedding retailer’s intellectual property and brand.

Warner Bros. stirs up ‘The Cat in the Hat’ mayhem on Roblox ahead of film

Players will be able to interact with items inspired by the film and unlock limited avatar items.

How Rescale built an AI triage agent with Strands Agents and AI-DLC

Rescale used the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) framework on AWS, with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock, to build an intelligent test-triage agent in weeks. Learn how AI-DLC structures AI-assisted development and how Rescale is s

CBP seizes $2.5M in meth hidden in tomatillo truck at Otay Mesa; driver’s visa canceled

Nearly 1,600 pounds of narcotics, a federal investigation and an unexpected development involving the trucker. New details obtained by FreightWaves reveal what happened after the seizure. The post CBP seizes $2.5M in meth hidden in tomatill

API Versioning Strategies for Stable Workflow Integrations

Compare API versioning strategies like URI, header, and date-based approaches, and learn how to handle a provider’s deprecation without breaking integration

Walmart welcomes external AI agents — with some guardrails

The mass retailer is focused on transparency and customer control with a new AI agent profile feature and updated agent terms.

Managing 3PL Ramp-Ups: Why Digital Workforce Readiness Matters as Much as Physical Automation

Third-party logistics (3PL) providers live in a world of constant change. New customer contracts, seasonal peaks, facility expansions, and labor fluctuations can require operations to scale from dozens to hundreds of associates in a matter

OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet

EBay cuts 1K jobs, downsizing for the second time this year

The layoffs, affecting about 9% of the marketplace giant’s global workforce, will impact all regions where it operates.

Affirm Inks Exclusive Deal with Sam’s Club as Competition for BNPL Shoppers Intensifies

Affirm’s new exclusive partnership with Sam’s Club gives the buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider a new foothold in warehouse retail, where shoppers make purchases ranging from household essentials to big-ticket electronics. The deal, announc

POS UI extensions 2026-10 adds s-pos-list, a virtualized list with custom row templates

POS UI extensions API version 2026-10 adds s-pos-list, a virtualized list component for Polaris web components. You pass rows as plain data and lay out each kind of row with a template built from web components. s-pos-list is now available

POS UI extensions now support reactive storage access

The new shopify.storage.current API lets POS UI extension developers respond automatically when stored values change across extension targets on the same POS device. It’s now available in API version 2026-10. No changes are required for exi

Pressure mounts to increase online retail tax as Budget looms

Pressure is mounting on Andy Burnham and Chancellor John Healey to tax online retail more heavily in the upcoming Autumn Budget. The post Pressure mounts to increase online retail tax as Budget looms appeared first on InternetRetailing.

TerraPay Adds Payee Verification to J.P. Morgan’s Liink Network

TerraPay announced it has integrated its payee verification service with Kinexys by J.P. Morgan’s Liink network, expanding financial institutions’ ability to check bank account and digital wallet details before sending cross-border payments

Stateful vs. Stateless: Managing Context in AI Agent Builds

Stateful versus stateless design changes how systems scale and remember context. Learn when to use memory nodes, state stores, or both.

Tractor Supply taps former Home Depot exec as chief digital, technology officer

Fahim Siddiqui will oversee digital operations and work to bolster long-term growth by improving the retailer’s customer experience.

US trailer orders soar 385% as Class 8 truck market sends mixed signals

Trailer orders jumped sharply in September as carriers moved to secure equipment ahead of potential price increases, while heavy-duty truck purchases showed mixed signals. The post US trailer orders soar 385% as Class 8 truck market sends m

Oddbox: Halloween pumpkin demand rises as heat-hit harvest exposes supply chain strain

Halloween participation is set to rise this year, but the growing seasonal opportunity comes as UK pumpkin growers face a glut of undersized produce that falls outside supermarket specifications. Recent research from the Institute of Grocer

UPS automates 4 additional facilities ahead of peak shipping season

UPS has completed several facility upgrades, increasing their capacity and productivity heading into peak shipping season. The post UPS automates 4 additional facilities ahead of peak shipping season appeared first on FreightWaves.