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Ex-Goldman Banker’s Missouri Firm Fuels the Rise in Fintechs

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Jackie Reses, co-founder & CEO of Lead Bank, said that she bought a bank so that she could 'disrupt' the banking system from the inside to rework its 'antiquated' financial services. Reses said that more companies are looking to embed financial services into what they do as it becomes more and more embedded across the board in everyday life. (Source: Bloomberg)

Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots  —  Design platform Canva released its first image generation model, called Canva Craft, developed by its research team to compete …

Aipac halts candidate endorsements amid US backlash against Israel

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Political candidates’ once reflexive support for Israel has increasingly become a liability

When the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the most prominent pro-Israel lobby group in the US, announced on Wednesday that it would stop endorsing candidates or make direct contributions to them, its many critics were quick to hail the development as Aipac’s admission of how toxic its brand had become.

The announcement marked a significant reversal that underscored just how profoundly US public opinion of Israel has shifted over the latest war in Gaza, and how political candidates’ once reflexive support for Israel has increasingly become a liability.

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