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Food Companies Say AI Plays Only Limited Role in Products
February 15, 2026

Food companies like Unilever and McCormick have long used artificial intelligence in product development. 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...

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Pharma Rewires Drug Development With AI Operations
February 13, 2026

Drug development has grown too expensive and too slow to rely on manual workflows, as the cost of bringing a single therapy to market climbs into the billions and approval timelines stretch across a decade or more. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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IBM to Triple Entry-Level Hiring as AI Rewrites Junior Roles
February 13, 2026

IBM said it will triple entry-level hiring in the United States in 2026, even as artificial intelligence reshapes the tasks traditionally assigned to new graduates, according to Bloomberg News. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

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Anthropic Fast-Tracks Next Generation of Coders Into Claude Ecosystem
February 13, 2026

Anthropic has formed a partnership that will make its artificial intelligence (AI) tools Claude and Claude Code available to 20,000 college students. 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...

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Banks Shift AI From Chatbots to Autonomous Money Movement
February 13, 2026

The most consequential artificial intelligence deployments in finance are invisible to customers. 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...

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Legora Targets $6 Billion Valuation as Law Firms Rush to AI
February 13, 2026

Legora, provider of an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for lawyers, is in talks on a funding round that would boost its valuation to $6 billion, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. 13), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Anthropic Valuation Hits $380 Billion as Enterprise AI Demand Explodes
February 12, 2026

Anthropic raised $30 billion in a Series G funding round that valued the company at $380 billion. 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...

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ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 Builds Buzz in Expanding Video Generation Market
February 12, 2026

The latest artificial intelligence breakthrough from Chinese tech giant ByteDance has ignited fresh excitement in China’s AI sector, with its newly unveiled Seedance 2.0 video-generation model going viral on social media and prompting comparisons to last year’s DeepSeek moment, according to Reuters. Get the Full...

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Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Says Economy Needs Small Business AI
February 12, 2026

Broader adoption of artificial intelligence by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) could boost Canada’s productivity, Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers said Thursday (Feb. 12), according to a report by Bloomberg. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...