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Equifax is one of the three major US consumer credit reporting agencies, compiling financial and personal data used for credit scores and background checks.
Startups catching fake voices and identities took $74 million of the roughly $125 million AI-fake detectors raised since January 2025, cbinsights.com says. Incode's $37 million round is about 30% of the total, so a count of 26 deals overstates how widely the money is spread.
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FICO will cut about 15% of its staff, roughly 570 jobs, and book $27 million in charges, mostly severance, to fold AI into its products. The cut comes weeks after housing regulators moved to loosen FICO's grip on mortgage scoring, and the timing makes it as much a cost defence as an AI story.
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Six of the eight positions Harris Associates increased in Q2 2026 are banks, brokers, exchanges or payments processors. The other two are Salesforce and Sysco, and the trim list includes an insurer.
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Foreign Policy's account, built on interviews with more than three dozen current and former US officials, puts the intelligence value of thefts like the 2017 Equifax breach in the analytic work that came after. No contractor is named.
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Fed, Equifax and Fitch data for Q2 show delinquency falling across prime and subprime. The 90-plus rate that argued the opposite was stale charge-offs, according to the New York Fed.
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Apple American Group's regulator filings put 8,447 notifications across three states and list a data inventory closer to a clinic's than a restaurant's. No company-wide total has been published.
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The bureau calls the free-text complaints unverified and one-sided. They were also the only part of the file that told an outside reader what a complaint was about.
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