A European Central Bank survey of over 5,000 euro-area firms found that more than 70% use artificial intelligence, but only 7% use it intensively, with researchers noting that deep integration driving…
Spreedly senior product manager for AI Judd Howard told PYMNTS that artificial intelligence is compressing the distance between differentiation and commoditization in payments, shifting competitive ad…
An investigation by The Guardian found that brands are using AI-generated influencers and synthetic customer content on social media without clear disclosure, with some creators signing non-disclosure…
Instacart has begun rolling out an agentic AI assistant that builds personalized grocery carts from conversations, prompts, or uploaded photos, using live inventory from nearly 100,000 stores. The ass…
A PYMNTS Intelligence report from May 2026 reveals consumers embrace AI for product discovery and comparison but resist delegating payments and irreversible purchases to autonomous agents, demanding h…
Healthcare AI has moved from pilot projects into operational use across scheduling, drug dispensing, patient communications and diagnostic decision-making, pulling nonclinical financial actors such as…
Anthropic plans to shift to token- and credit-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK after developers raised concerns about unpredictable costs, while The Clearing House unveiled plans to move regulat…
Financial services firms have adopted AI across more tasks than healthcare or media, leading on 27 of 75 AI-supported tasks, according to a PYMNTS Intelligence survey of 60 senior tech executives. Whi…
A panel discussion published June 18, 2026 concluded that agentic AI is shifting the conversation in financial services from automation toward decision support, forcing credit unions to balance speed …
State Farm is revising contracts for its 19,000 agents, requiring them to use AI tools daily and meet new sales targets to maintain agency status beyond 2027, as part of its "Next Gen Good Neighbor" i…
Coinbase launched Coinbase Advisor, an SEC-registered AI-powered investment adviser, as part of its June 16 System Update. The adviser offers tax-loss harvesting and multi-asset trade recommendations …
Mercury launched Mercury Command, a conversational AI interface for its financial platform, enabling users to perform tasks like checking cash positions and sending invoices via natural language. The …
Companies across manufacturing, logistics and construction are increasingly deploying physical AI-powered robots to cope with persistent labor shortages, with the Manufacturing Institute projecting 2.…
Regulators face a timing mismatch as antitrust litigation moves slowly while AI-driven market structures evolve rapidly, according to PYMNTS. The publication advises focusing on dynamic competition an…
Microsoft was sued by shareholders who allege the company concealed slowing growth in its Azure cloud business and the scale of capital spending needed for AI infrastructure. The lawsuit, filed in Sea…
Anthropic sent top technical staff to Washington to negotiate lifting White House restrictions on its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models after the administration barred foreign use due to a reported jailbrea…
Andrej Karpathy, who coined the term 'vibe coding' in February 2025, declared it outdated in February 2026 and introduced 'agentic engineering' as the next phase. The shift, now adopted by companies a…
Ripple released the XRPL AI Starter Kit on June 10, 2026, enabling AI agents to transact on the XRP Ledger using XRP and RLUSD. Mastercard named Ripple a launch partner for its Agent Pay for Machines …
CoreWeave launched unified agentic AI capabilities on May 28, combining serverless reinforcement learning, production inference, fleet observability, and autonomous improvement into a closed feedback …
McDonald's unveiled a Google-powered drive-thru ordering system called ArchIQ at its Worldwide Convention in Las Vegas, now piloting at five U.S. locations. The system has processed over 1 million tra…