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…
Utah launched the nation's first AI-powered prescription refill program in January, partnering with startup Doctronic to let a chatbot renew about 190 chronic medications, as states move to license AI…
Microsoft has started routing some Excel and Outlook AI prompts to its internal MAI models, handling tens of thousands of prompts per week. The move signals a shift toward using cheaper internal model…
PYMNTS published a July 7, 2026 interview with Sunlight CEO Guy Ziv arguing that AI agents can make invoice-card payments more common in B2B payables workflows, as many suppliers accept card payments …
President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 2, 2026, asking frontier AI developers to provide the federal government early access to covered models up to 30 days before broader release. The v…
CFOs are reshaping corporate strategy as AI investment grows, with median S&P 500 CFO compensation rising to $6 million in 2025 from $5.8 million in 2024, reflecting expanded responsibilities in capit…
AI-agent-driven transactions surged 805% year-over-year by Black Friday 2025, with agents driving over $22 billion in global online sales, but identity infrastructure has failed to keep pace. Socure C…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that surging AI capital expenditure could prove unsustainable and threaten financial stability, citing opaque circular financing arrangements among chipma…
BMW's AI platform now processes 16.6 billion daily requests from 24.5 million connected vehicles, handling 184 terabytes of data and 100 million API calls with sub-second latency. The platform support…
Payments firms are finding that AI's value is limited by infrastructure bottlenecks such as data pipeline reliability, latency, and compliance constraints, according to a PYMNTS article featuring Mave…
NVIDIA released an AI blueprint using Graph Neural Networks and GPU-accelerated inference to detect fraud rings by analyzing connections among accounts, devices, and transactions. The framework addres…
Google is requiring news publishers in its AI-powered article overviews pilot to grant broad rights for content use, including AI training, or risk losing annual fees from Google News, which Google pl…
Agentic AI is reshaping financial crime compliance by enabling autonomous reasoning, investigation, and workflow execution, according to Flagright CTO Madhu Nadig. The shift moves beyond efficiency ga…
Walmart Business is highlighting the hidden administrative burden of procurement for small and medium-sized businesses, noting that routine tasks like ordering supplies and managing vendors consume fo…
WEX Chief Digital Officer Karen Stroup advocated redesigning work around agentic AI, emphasizing its ability to reason, make decisions, and take action. The approach aims to reshape workflows in payme…
Anthropic sent a letter to U.S. senators and White House officials alleging that Alibaba's AI lab used 25,000 fraudulent accounts and 28.8 million exchanges to illicitly access and distill Anthropic's…