Artificial Intelligence

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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Incore Bank’s AI Hits 99% Accuracy on KYC Checks
September 01, 2026

Know-your-customer (KYC) checks are expensive partly because a bank isn’t simply verifying an identity. Compliance teams have to collect information from documents, reconcile it across systems, investigate potential risk factors and build an auditable record explaining how they reached a decision. Incore Bank, a Swiss...

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Anthropic Revises Enterprise Data Retention Policy After Customer Pushback
September 01, 2026

Anthropic is changing a data retention policy for business customers following concerns from enterprise users about how their information would be stored and reviewed. The company announced Tuesday (Sept. 1) it is introducing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, a system that will give businesses greater control over...

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OpenAI Brings Epic Health Records to ChatGPT for Clinicians
September 01, 2026

OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT directly to Epic electronic health records, pushing the artificial intelligence bot deeper into the clinical workflow and giving healthcare workers a way to query patient information without manually assembling the medical history themselves. Healthcare organizations can now connect their Epic environments...

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ChatGPT Ads Hit $1 Billion Faster Than Google Ever Did
September 01, 2026

Ads inside ChatGPT are now bringing in money at a pace equal to $1 billion a year, OpenAI said in a Monday announcement, a milestone the company reached less than 200 days after launching the ad product. OpenAI is guiding toward $2.5 billion in booked...

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OpenAI Blames Apple for iPhone Maker’s Trade Secret Lawsuit
September 01, 2026

In July, Apple sued OpenAI, accusing its one-time partner of stealing trade secrets. The legal battle continued this week, with Apple now alleging that an OpenAI employee has destroyed evidence in the case, and OpenAI saying Apple has no one to blame for the suit...

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ChatGPT Facing Dual Regulatory Regimes Under New EU Designation
September 01, 2026

The European Union is bringing OpenAI’s ChatGPT under its strictest online platform rules, signaling that Brussels increasingly views widely used artificial intelligence services not only as AI models but also as mass-market information platforms capable of creating systemic risks. The European Commission on Monday (Aug....

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Congress Weighs Public Stake in AI’s Potential Wealth Boom
September 01, 2026

Congress may need to decide whether the public should receive a direct financial stake in the wealth generated by artificial intelligence, according to a Friday (Aug. 28) report from the Congressional Research Service. The report outlined possible equity-sharing structures while warning of difficult trade-offs involving...

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Petwealth Uses AI to Turn Pet Lab Results Into Action
September 01, 2026

Angelo Palivos built Petwealth after losing his own pet to an illness that a diagnostic lab couldn’t catch in time. That loss became the company’s founding premise. Veterinary care moves too slowly and too reactively, and pet owners are often waiting on lab results when...

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Retail Investing Opens Up to AI Assistants
August 31, 2026

Scalable Capital became the first bank in Europe to open its investment platform directly to outside artificial intelligence assistants on Aug. 25, letting customers connect ChatGPT, Claude or Grok to a real brokerage account holding actual money, Scalable Capital said in its announcement. The German...