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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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Predicts AI Tokens Will Become a Standard Job Perk
March 20, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s suggestion earlier this week that his company may pay engineers artificial intelligence (AI) tokens in addition to their base salary, is the latest example of his vision in which AI agents will play a key role in the workplace, CNBC reported Friday (March 20)....

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White House Shops National AI Policy to Override States
March 20, 2026

The White House unveiled a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence Friday (March 20), saying that this set of legislative recommendations is designed to help American industry innovate and American people benefit from the technology. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

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OpenAI Reworks Product Strategy Around New Desktop Super App
March 20, 2026

OpenAI is preparing a new push to make ChatGPT more central to how people work on their computers. It plans to combine its ChatGPT app, Codex coding platform and browser into a desktop “super app.” According to The Wall Street Journal, the move is meant...

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AI Adoption Is Being Measured in Tokens, but the Metric Falls Short, Experts Say
March 19, 2026

A growing number of companies are using a unit called the token to measure how much their employees and workflows use artificial intelligence, according to The Wall Street Journal. Companies that now regularly use AI are starting to track their workers’ use of tokens, AI’s...

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Jeff Bezos Raising $100 Billion to Supercharge Manufacturing With AI
March 19, 2026

Jeff Bezos is meeting with some of the world’s largest asset managers to raise $100 billion for a new fund that would buy manufacturing companies and transform them with the help of artificial intelligence, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (March 19). Get the Full...

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Telecom and Energy Networks Embed AI to Streamline Workloads
March 19, 2026

Three of the largest companies in telecom and technology are pushing artificial intelligence out of far-flung data centers and into the infrastructure of everyday life, a shift that lets AI act on information the moment it is created rather than after a round trip to...

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Nvidia CEO Says the Next Software Battle Is Over Outcomes
March 19, 2026

We’ve all heard a lot about the potential impact artificial intelligence and agentic AI will have on the SaaS sector. But its conversion from SaaS to GaaS is a new wrinkle. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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Coinbase Bets on AI Agents to Power Payments Growth
March 18, 2026

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is looking to build the infrastructure for artificial intelligence agent payments at a time when its core business is being impacted by the crypto market downturn, The Information reported Wednesday (March 18). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

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Nvidia Launches AI for Hospital Operating Rooms
March 18, 2026

Robots are coming to hospitals, but they are not there to replace surgeons. Instead, they observe, coordinate and carry loads, tasks that consume large amounts of clinical staff time and require far less judgment than the work surgeons spend years training to perform. Get the...