Retailers are no longer treating embedded finance as a checkout enhancement. The data show it is becoming a tool for control over customer relationships, compliance exposure and operational tempo across the retail stack. That is the central takeaway from “Retailers Expand Embedded Finance to Unlock Control...
Amazon Business is offering new benefits to members of its Business Prime program. The tech giant announced Thursday (Dec. 18) that these small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can now access benefits from Intuit Quickbooks, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike and human resources and payroll platform Gusto. “Small business owners wear a lot...
Among retail’s most dominant themes in 2025 was that the next era of competition is about ecosystem control, not just operational excellence. As 2026 approaches, Walmart and Amazon are focused on building monetization layers that sit on top of commerce: advertising, data, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven...
Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: Paysafe’s Roy Aston In payments, the most meaningful breakthroughs can often be invisible ones. The consumer taps, clicks or chats, and the transaction simply works. But much of the real work of payments transformation takes place deep in infrastructure,...
Amazon has formed a new organization that will bring together its artificial intelligence (AI) models, silicon development and quantum computing. The company’s artificial general intelligence (AGI) team will be included in the organization, as will the Nova AI models and the Graviton, Trainium and Nitro...
Marketplace optimization platform Teikametrics has debuted an artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Artificial Retail Intelligence (ARI). This new system is designed to increase merchant success on Walmart, Amazon and TikTok as AI increases the volume of content and makes it harder to gain attention, the...
Amazon is reportedly in discussions to invest around $10 billion in OpenAI. That investment could value the artificial intelligence startup at upwards of $500 billion, Reuters reported late Tuesday (Dec. 16), citing a source familiar with the matter. That source said the talks between the...
Livestream shopping is popular in China, but it hasn’t caught on in the United States. That could be changing, however, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Dec. 16). TikTok parent ByteDance is trying to replicate the success it found with its Chinese platform Douyin in the U.S. Small...
Anthropologie, Chipotle and Starbucks have become the final lease signees at Walmart’s new Home Office, the 350-acre corporate campus in Bentonville, Arkansas, that offers amenities for the retailer’s associates, members of the local community and other visitors. Together, the new lease signees complete the campus’...