With CES wrapping last week and the National Retail Federation event kicking off Monday (Jan. 12) there’s been a renewed focus on The Prompt Economy’s intersection with retail. If there’s a theme to recent announcements in this area it’s about workflows and the workforce. Get...
Wayfair said Monday (Jan. 12) that it participated in the development of Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for agentic commerce and will soon enable shoppers to check out directly from Wayfair without leaving Google during their research. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
Google Cloud introduced Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience, a platform designed to help retailers deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can support shopping, ordering and customer service across digital channels. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
The artificial intelligence (AI) race has moved from the laboratory to the clinic, marking a pivotal shift in how the digital economy’s most valuable data — health information — is processed. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
Artificial intelligence (AI) startups Cast AI, Cyera and Swap headlined a wave of capital injections this week, reflecting where investors see near-term demand as enterprises scale production AI systems. The deals point to continued interest in tools that manage compute constraints, govern sensitive data and...
“Know your agent” (KYA) is emerging as the trust layer that makes delegated, machine-initiated commerce legible to networks, issuers and merchants before fraud systems intervene. Without it, agent-driven transactions are treated as suspicious noise. Approval rates fall, controls overcorrect and loyalty breaks. Get the Full...
Watch more: Monday Conversation with SAP CX’s Balaji Balasubramanian Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form,...
At CES last week, executives from agriculture, genetics and crop-protection companies in a panel discussion described how artificial intelligence (AI) is moving upstream into the economic core of farming, reshaping decisions about what gets planted, where inputs are applied and how yields are maximized. Agriculture...
For the past several years, the AI boom has been inseparable from a race in cloud capacity. Training large models and running inference at scale drove unprecedented capital expenditures across hyperscalers, reinforcing the idea that bigger models required bigger data centers. A growing body of...
