Apps like Text With Jesus (which lets premium users text Satan) and Virtual Jesus now let believers DM the divine 24/7, while megachurch leaders sell AI clones of themselves for $49 a month.

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Google is rolling out new shopping features, including agentic AI that can call stores for you and automatically buy items ...

WXIN/WTTV — We’re on the verge of the holiday shopping season, and buy now, pay later (BNPL) is getting more popular as a way to buy larger ticket items. According to experts like marketing professor ...

I’ve made some questionable financial decisions throughout my early 20s. At a ripe 23, I’ve got a good enough grip on things. I swore off installment payment tools like Klarna and Afterpay. I deleted ...

To purchase gold isn’t much different from hiding money in the proverbial coffee can. Yes, rising gold signals a little or a lot of economic decline. The yellow metal’s upward trajectory in dollars ...

OpenAI will allow Shopify's merchants to sell products through ChatGPT for a fee. Shopify is one of two e-commerce companies with which OpenAI is partnering -- so far. There are additional reasons to ...

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More shoppers are open to using buy now, pay later loans, especially as the holiday gift-buying season approaches and as shoppers are more worried about rising prices and financial stress, according ...