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Wedbush Says Missing ROI Metrics Threaten Further Enterprise AI Deployment
June 26, 2026

Many enterprises have not developed a way to determine whether they have gained a good return on investment on the artificial intelligence (AI) tools they have deployed, Wedbush Securities analysts said, according to a Friday (June 26) report by Seeking Alpha. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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BMW’s AI Runs 16 Billion Daily Requests and 600 Use Cases
June 26, 2026

Every time a BMW driver locks their car remotely, checks their battery level, receives a navigation update or gets a software fix pushed over the air, that counts as a request. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Running 29 Million Fake Queries to Clone Claude
June 26, 2026

Training a frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model costs billions of dollars and years of research. Reproducing much of its behavior can cost a fraction of that, if you have access to enough of its outputs. That gap is what makes model distillation, a technique that...

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OpenAI Restricts Access to Latest AI Models at US Government Request
June 26, 2026

OpenAI said Friday (June 26) that it is limiting the release of its new GPT-5.6 series artificial intelligence (AI) models to a small group of trusted partners at the request of the U.S. government. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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AI-Generated Fake Receipts Now Make Up 71% of Expense Fraud
June 26, 2026

Four in 10 U.S. employees have used artificial intelligence to generate a fake expense receipt, according to a survey released Tuesday (June 23) by expense management platform Emburse. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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Google Tells News Publishers to Share Content for AI Training or Lose Fees
June 25, 2026

Google is asking news publishers who join a pilot program in which “AI-powered article overviews” are shared in Google News and the Gemini AI chatbot to also give the tech giant broad rights on how it uses their content, The Information reported Thursday (June 25),...

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Scaled Cognition Raises $100 Million to Address AI Hallucinations
June 25, 2026

AI lab Scaled Cognition has raised $100 million in new funding. 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,...

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Medicare Tests AI Prior Authorization in Six States
June 25, 2026

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the WISeR Model in January, short for Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction Model, with the aim of “decreasing costs and easing administrative burden on providers and suppliers,” according to the CMS. Get the Full Story Complete...

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BlackBerry Dials Into Physical AI as Revenues Jump 26%
June 25, 2026

BlackBerry is signaling a shift toward physical artificial intelligence and advanced platform-as-a-service models as revenues climb. 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...