Artificial Intelligence

PYMNTS covers artificial intelligence as it transforms payments, commerce and financial services, from generative AI and agentic commerce to fraud detection, underwriting and customer engagement. Our reporting pairs breaking news with proprietary data and expert analysis to examine how AI is reshaping business models, operational efficiency and competitive dynamics across the connected economy.
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Agentic Payments Are About to Break the Meaning of an Authorized Transaction
October 16, 2026

Watch more: Before AI Moves Money, It Must Earn Authority Agentic commerce has a payments problem hiding in plain sight. The financial system does not yet have a universal way to authenticate a machine’s authority to make a decision. And time is running out. Artificial...

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Meta Raises Its AI Game as Google Opens Gemini 4 Argon
October 15, 2026

The biggest names in tech pushed artificial intelligence (AI) in two directions over the past week. Meta and Google raised the ceiling on what the most powerful models can do. Microsoft and Cloudflare went the other way, with models that make quick yes-or-no and multiple-choice...

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Meta Sends Its AI Agent After Denied Insurance Claims
October 15, 2026

A denied insurance claim, a dense lease or a confusing medical bill can take hours of reading, phone calls and follow-up. Meta wants its artificial intelligence agents to take on that work. On Monday (Oct. 12), the company introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full,...

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U.S. Bancorp Says AI Agents Aren’t Moving Consumer Deposits Yet
October 15, 2026

U.S. Bancorp’s consumers continued to spend during the third quarter, even as the bank carried more card balances and saw an increase in early-stage card delinquencies. “Spend levels are high, employment is strong,” Chief Financial Officer John Stern told analysts during a Thursday (Oct. 15)...

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NYC Comptroller Urges Anthropic to Delay IPO and Focus on AI Safety
October 15, 2026

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine is calling on Anthropic to delay its initial public offering and focus its energies on artificial intelligence safety issues the company itself has highlighted. Levine made this call in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) letter addressed to Anthropic CEO Dario...

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Anthropic Narrows Revenue Gap With OpenAI Ahead of Its IPO
October 15, 2026

In 2025, OpenAI earned nearly $3 of revenue for every dollar Anthropic did. Nine months later, Anthropic booked more in a single quarter than it did in all of last year, and it told investors it did so at a profit. That is the case...

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Eight States Bring Parallel Lawsuits Against OpenAI Over Safety Issues
October 15, 2026

Eight states have sued OpenAI in their respective state courts, alleging the tech giant failed to implement sufficient safeguards to protect vulnerable users, including children and the elderly. The coordinated lawsuits mark an escalation in the battle by state authorities to impose guardrails on artificial...

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AI Startup Cohere Moves to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm AISLE
October 15, 2026

AI startup Cohere says it plans to acquire AISLE, a company developing autonomous systems to find and repair vulnerabilities in critical software. The deal is happening at a time when security “is becoming the defining challenge of enterprise AI,” Cohere said in announcing the proposed acquisition Thursday (Oct. 15). “As...

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FSB Says Banks Need to Have Company-Wide AI Regulation
October 15, 2026

A global financial watchdog is calling on banks to increase their oversight of agentic AI. The Financial Stability Board (FSB) made that call in a report published Thursday (Oct. 15) outlining proper practices for adopting artificial intelligence (AI). “As adoption expands in scale and sophistication, AI may also amplify...