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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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How Large US Companies Put AI Agents to Work
November 05, 2026

AI agents have crossed the company threshold. Getting permission to do the work is taking longer. “The Agentic Edge Index: How Leading Companies Put AI to Work” is a PYMNTS Intelligence report from the Enterprise AI Benchmark Series. It introduces the Agentic Edge Index and...

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Tencent Targets Financial Analysis With Hy4 AI Model
November 04, 2026

Tencent has released its latest generation large language model, Hy4, saying in a Wednesday (Nov. 4) press release that it “now ranks among the world’s leading open-source AI models.” Hy4 introduces visual understanding capabilities for the first time; introduces computer-use capabilities for the first time; provides major improvements in...

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Apple Cuts Engineering AI Spending Cap by One-Third
November 04, 2026

Apple is lowering the artificial intelligence (AI) budgets for employees in its engineering teams and those in other teams, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Nov. 4), citing unnamed sources. For some engineering teams, Apple cut the daily spending cap for AI models from $300 to $200 in October,...

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Meta Acquires AI Coding Startup Conductor
November 04, 2026

Meta has acquired artificial intelligence (AI) coding startup Conductor, Axios reported Wednesday (Nov. 4). Conductor enables software engineers to manage multiple coding agents at the same time, and Meta’s acquisition of the company will help its own models and ecosystem compete for coders, according to the report....

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Adobe Integrates Marketing AI Agent in ChatGPT and Claude
November 04, 2026

Adobe’s agentic teammate for customer experience orchestration, CX Enterprise Coworker, is now available within several leading artificial intelligence platforms, the company said in a Thursday (Nov. 4) press release. CX Enterprise Coworker is now available within ChatGPT, Claude, Databricks Genie, Gemini for business and Microsoft...

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The CFO’s Guide to LLMjacking: When Stolen AI Becomes a 7-Figure Cloud Bill
November 04, 2026

There’s a new flavor of AP fraud in town, and it’s all about AI. Cybercriminals have found a way to monetize stolen corporate artificial intelligence infrastructure in real time, selling unauthorized access to large language models (LLMs) while the companies whose credentials were compromised absorb...

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Microsoft Clarity Helps Merchants Welcome AI Shopping Agents
November 04, 2026

Microsoft has introduced three features for its website and app analytics tool, Clarity, that are designed to help website owners understand how people and artificial intelligence agents are using their site, the company said in a Wednesday (Nov. 4) blog post. The new Agentic Analytics...

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Anthropic Develops Tools to Confirm AI Models’ Identities
November 04, 2026

Anthropic says it is developing a way to verify which AI model offered a given output. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s FlashProve system is designed to deliver what is known as “provable inference,” which allows users to confirm that responses came from a specific AI model,...

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Democratic Sweep Could Slow AI Build Out
November 04, 2026

Tuesday’s (Nov. 3) political earthquake could produce aftershocks that will be felt by the artificial intelligence (AI) industry in 2027 and beyond. Democrats’ coast-to-coast sweep of congressional races and governorships will hand the gavel to critics of the industry’s free hand from regulators in key...