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Swedish fintech company and pioneer of buy-now-pay-later lending, now expanding into digital banking across dozens of markets; trades on NYSE as KLAR.
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A CFO and CMO exit, a volume guidance cut and a 22% drop landed on one day. The new headline metric and a mid-year accounting change point the same direction.
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ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski, whose agents handle Klarna's first-line support for 35 million U.S. customers, says callers should be told when AI answers. He limits the norm to a period when callers still expect a person, and his suggested version makes disclosure a routing choice at the top of the call.
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Apple says the ongoing memory shortage is why every iPhone now costs $100 more, and MacBooks and iPads were repriced on the same grounds earlier. For fleet buyers, the component cycle has reached the price list.
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Most buy now/pay later loans never reach the credit bureaus, even as the Federal Reserve counts 16% of consumers using them in 2025. Use runs heaviest among borrowers with the least savings, so the debt banks cannot see sits with the applicants least able to carry it.
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ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski will let gross margins shrink to win share, at a $600 million annual revenue pace and a reported $22 billion valuation. Decagon trained on its voices and now competes with it, so teams buying voice AI should plan to swap the voice itself.
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Colin Jarvis, who runs OpenAI's forward deployed engineering team, says deployment is the block for most enterprise AI buyers. The way his engineers are staffed and measured shows what that costs.
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The bank says its new Commerce Media unit will sell brands access to more than 70 million customers based on their spending histories, and cardholders who do not want those ads have to opt out.
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Gartner's Tori Paulman says agentic AI is not carrying enough work to justify large cuts, and her team traced under 1% of more than a million 2025 layoffs to AI productivity. The rehiring bill lands on few employers.
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Neo4j's first product since closing the GraphAware deal in August turns financial crime work into four workflow stages running over one graph joined from the separate systems a bank already has.
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Four in 10 young respondents did not classify buy now, pay later as debt, and those who reported receiving financial education were less likely than others to call it debt. The survey leaves the order of the two open.
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Call Status Detection is live in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, switched on by default on iPhone and opt-in on Android, and Klarna pointed to the ECB's estimate of more than 4 billion euros a year in European fraud to explain why.
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Nearly one in three Americans has financed groceries with buy now, pay later, close to double the share of two years ago. A forthcoming WashU model of retailer profit finds the merchant fee comes back as a higher shelf price for everyone.
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Affirm's eleventh straight quarter above 30% growth was also its most profitable. The $64bn floor guided for fiscal 2027 implies at most 28% growth, and that gap is where the card-displacement argument gets tested.
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Wirex's card partners can now choose Tempo to move value behind their cards. The growth figures attached to the deal are run rates, and the first enterprise programs on the combined stack are still moving toward launch.
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Klarna cut 700 support agents and hired them back. An Entrepreneur column argues the costly error is rebuilding into the old chart, and the thinner truth is that nobody has priced the round trip.
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BCG has companies taking AI spending from 0.8% of revenue to about 1.7% this year, while McKinsey finds only 39% can see any effect on company-wide operating profit. That gap makes architecture a finance question.
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A reported examination sweep has landed on a market where two issuers alone carry roughly $2.28 trillion of estimated paper value. Both issuers say they never authorised the vehicles selling access to their shares.
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A forthcoming Management Science paper models pay-later as a liquidity lever rather than a payments feature, and finds it moves list prices and stocking levels for every buyer.
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A developer graded 18 expired AI predictions against their own words. The best mark he shows is a C+, and the one he built on took six weeks out of his own roadmap.
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Two years of payments on a $1,100 iPhone 17 Pro come to $768. Keeping the phone costs up to $332 more, which is roughly where the apparent saving went.
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