Millions of workers can stream, shop, and send money in seconds, yet payroll still follows a schedule rooted in 1938.
This contradiction is the focus of DailyPay's first national campaign, created with global communication firm Edelman.
Narrated by legendary actor Christopher Lloyd, the film opens in 1938, where the two-week pay cycle is introduced as a system that worked.
Strategic partnership connects HData's centralized U.S. regulatory data with IFS Copperleaf's Asset Investment Planning (AIP) solution, giving utilities a direct path from rate cases, commission orders, and peer filings to defensible capital plans, as the sector heads toward a trillion-dollar decade of infrastructure investment.
BIRMINGHAM, AL., June 5, 2026 – IFS Copperleaf, the global leader in AI-powered Asset Investment Planning (AIP) for critical infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership with HData, the AI-native operating system for energy regulation. The partnership connects HData's centralized library of federal and state regulatory and legislative data (rate cases, integrated resource plans, testimony, commission orders, and FERC and EIA filings) directly into IFS Copperleaf's capital and asset investment planning platform.
The integration closes a gap utilities have lived with for years: the disconnect between the regulatory and legislative environments that shape capital decisions and the planning systems where those decisions actually get made. With U.S. utilities projected to invest up to a trillion dollars in infrastructure by the end of this decade, under regulatory scrutiny that intensifies every year, that gap is now a strategic liability.
LOS ANGELES, June 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Serve Robotics Inc. (Nasdaq: SERV), a leading autonomous robotics company, today announced a new partnership with NoScrubs, a fast-growing on-demand laundry service, marking Serve's first commercial urban delivery partnership outside of prepared food. The pilot, launching this week in select Los Angeles neighborhoods, will use Serve's existing fleet of autonomous sidewalk robots to deliver NoScrubs laundry orders directly to customers' doors.
Findigs has raised $32 million in Series C funding as the proptech company looks to reshape how rental housing operators evaluate applicants, manage risk and protect revenue in an increasingly challenging multifamily market.
The round was led by RPM Ventures, with participation from existing investors Nyca Partners, Frontier Venture Capital and Western Technology Investment. The financing brings Findigs’ total funding to $80 million and will support expansion of its AI-driven leasing decisioning platform, affordable housing capabilities and new rent guarantee products.
The raise comes as multifamily operators face a more complex operating environment. Rising vacancies in some markets, elevated operating costs and affordability pressures are forcing property owners to balance occupancy growth against credit and collection risk. That dynamic is creating demand for more sophisticated underwriting tools that move beyond traditional tenant screening models.
AI agents aren’t running your shopping yet. But the new stack is forming and the time to build is now.
A consumer wakes up to a notification on a Friday morning:
"I reordered your bi-weekly groceries, added the items you flagged throughout the week, and moved delivery to Saturday at 2pm so it lands before meal prep. Order total: $120.32, charged to AMEX 1234."
At the same time, a brand's internal dashboard lights up:
"Agent-to-agent ordering completed. 3,126 agent orders were placed today."
Incredibly exciting vision. Now you go to an AI agent of your choice, ask it to find you a specific type of dress, and… you’re likely waiting. So, you hit refresh and the results come back technically correct, but just not quite right.
The seamless delegation promise of agentic commerce is not here yet, but the signals are real enough that ignoring it would be the actual mistake.
We're already seeing the early glimmers. According to a survey conducted by Deloitte, retailers are seeing 15-20% of referral traffic coming from AI chat interfaces and that's just the beginning. According to McKinsey research, the U.S. B2C retail market alone could see $1T+ in orchestrated revenue by 2030, with global projections as high as $3-5T. For context, Forbes estimates global e-commerce revenue this year to be ~$6T.
