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1 in 4 S&P 500 Companies Can Now Prove AI Pays 
April 27, 2026

A year ago, most large companies were running artificial intelligence (AI) pilots and calling it progress. Now they’re reporting numbers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

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The AI Guest Whisperer Taking Over Vacation Rentals 
April 27, 2026

Short-term rental operators spent years pricing by hand, answering guest messages at midnight and chasing cleaners between checkouts. A growing number have stopped: artificial intelligence (AI) now handles pricing, guest communication, staff scheduling and maintenance coordination. Some operators are spending $30,000 to $50,000 a month...

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OpenAI Weighs Phone Built Around AI Agents
April 27, 2026

OpenAI is collaborating on the development of smartphone processors and may build a new artificial intelligence agent ecosystem based on a phone, TF International Securities Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote in a Sunday (April 26) article on X. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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DeepMind Vet’s Ineffable Intelligence AI Startup Raises $1.1 Billion
April 27, 2026

Ineffable Intelligence, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup launched by Google DeepMind veteran David Silver, has raised $1.1 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...

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BMO Launches Platform to Help Small Businesses Manage Banking
April 27, 2026

BMO has debuted a platform for small and midsized enterprises (SMEs) and emerging middle market (EMM) 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...

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Customers Bank Taps OpenAI to Reengineer Commercial Banking Operations
April 27, 2026

Pennsylvania-headquartered Customers Bank plans to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) across its commercial banking operations in a new multiyear strategic collaboration with OpenAI. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

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Anthropic Ran a Marketplace and Bots Closed Every Deal
April 27, 2026

Anthropic ran a test that took the human out of the transaction entirely. The artificial intelligence company built a private marketplace for select employees and deployed software agents on both sides of every deal, letting them search listings, make offers and close deals without human...

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Microsoft Agrees to End Revenue-Sharing With OpenAI
April 27, 2026

OpenAI has forged a new revenue and technology agreement with partner/artificial intelligence (AI) competitor Microsoft. 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,...

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CFOs Suffer From Consumption as Tech Teams AI Tokenmaxx
April 27, 2026

Enterprise software helped redefine corporate billing and make it CFO-friendly. Annual licenses, multi-year agreements and seat-based pricing models created a stable cost structure that finance teams could forecast with reasonable accuracy. Even cloud computing, for all its variability, eventually settled into patterns that procurement and...