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…
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…