Credit union chatbot adoption reached 46% in 2026, up from 3% in 2019, according to Cornerstone Advisors data cited by PYMNTS and CU Daily. PYMNTS Intelligence research with Velera found that 75% of s…
Google announced new AI Max testing and planning tools for Search campaigns on Aug. 20, including a September rollout of multi-campaign A/B tests for budget and ROI targets. The update adds brand and …
Experian and OpenAI launched a UK credit score app inside ChatGPT on March 13, 2026, allowing users to compare typical credit scores by postcode area and age group using aggregated, anonymised Experia…
Personetics and Plaid announced a partnership on August 18 to integrate Plaid's open finance connectivity into the Personetics AI Cognitive Banking Platform, combining internal and external account da…
DeepSeek moved its entire API to peak and off-peak billing on August 16, 2026, with flagship V4-Pro output costing $3.96 per million tokens at peak and $1.98 off-peak, up from a flat $0.87. The schedu…
Financial Times reported on August 13, 2026, that Anthropic investors are targeting a valuation above $2 trillion for a potential October 2026 listing, a figure that has not been formally fixed within…
IBM reported that 85% of organizations in a May follow-on study planned to increase security spending after becoming aware of advanced frontier AI cyber capabilities, compared with 64% in its broader …
SoFi's AI-powered financial guide Coach, launched June 2 for SoFi Plus members, uses connected account activity and financial-planner playbooks to personalize chat-based guidance, with nearly 70% of e…
Mercury launched Agent Cards on August 12, enabling AI agents to retrieve dedicated virtual-card credentials through its API or CLI and make online purchases within administrator-set limits. Mercury's…
Coinbase Business began enabling merchants to accept payments from AI agents through the x402 protocol during the week of July 23, 2026, according to CoinDesk. The company's product documentation says…
Yelp launched an integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT on August 10 that enables users to reserve restaurant tables or join waitlists directly within a chat conversation, covering thousands of restaurants…
Booking Holdings reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $7.4 billion, up 8% year over year, and gross bookings of $51.0 billion, up 9%, with merchant bookings accounting for about 73% of total gross …
Federal Reserve staff estimated in a July 17 research note that spending on software, data centers, power facilities, computers and peripheral equipment added about 0.73 percentage point to the US eco…
UC Berkeley RDI's Agents' Last Exam (ALE) benchmark, released in June 2026, found that every tested frontier AI agent scored 0% on its hardest tier of long-horizon professional tasks, while PYMNTS rep…
Sen. Mark Warner on July 21 unveiled a federal AI agenda built around six new bills and four priorities: infrastructure, competition and safety, workforce disruption, and national security. The propos…
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora called for AI token prices to drop by 80% within a year and 90% the following year, citing high costs as a barrier to enterprise adoption of agentic and large-conte…
Several states are enacting laws that restrict AI from making final medical necessity determinations for health insurers without human clinical review, requiring audit, documentation, and human-in-the…
Five startups and small companies with 20 to 70 employees replaced Salesforce and HubSpot contracts with AI-built apps from Anthropic, Lovable, and Replit, cutting software costs by 40% to 80%. Gartne…
Paradigm raised a $1.2 billion fund to invest beyond crypto, including artificial intelligence and robotics, according to Bloomberg. The fund has already backed an autonomous drone delivery startup va…
Microsoft Incident Response warned on June 30, 2026, that poisoned MCP tool descriptions can steer enterprise AI agents into unsafe actions, a risk amplified for banks racing to deploy AI. The NSA sep…