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Artificial Intelligence
FIS Sees Smarter Payments Powering AI Agents
October 01, 2026

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Mike Magennis of FIS Fall brings football, starting lineups and plenty of arguments over who deserves the first pick. Mike Magennis, senior director of Strategy, Networks at FIS, said he already knows what he would take first in...

Mobile Commerce
Apple Readies Launch of Smart Home Hub
September 30, 2026

Apple plans to announce a new smart home product and two updated ones on Oct. 13, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Sept. 30), citing unnamed sources. The new product is a smart home hub that will recognize the user; display that person’s contacts, messages, calendar appointments, notes...

B2B Payments
Why the Fed Thinks B2B Payments Are Already Built for Agentic
September 30, 2026

The biggest obstacle to agentic payments isn’t teaching artificial intelligence how to buy something. It’s giving software permission to spend money without giving it permission to make expensive mistakes. Corporate procurement may already have the answer. Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said in a Tuesday...

Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI’s Muse Rival Arrives Half-Baked
September 30, 2026

Artificial intelligence agents are showing up everywhere. Meta released its Muse personal AI agent on Sept. 8, and it reached the top of Apple’s free app chart 10 days later. Now it’s OpenAI’s turn. OpenAI launched Dots on Tuesday (Sept. 29). Dots are AI agents...

Artificial Intelligence
ElevenLabs Joins Ranks of World’s Most Valuable AI Firms
September 30, 2026

Voice AI company ElevenLabs is now reportedly one of the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence companies. That’s according to a report Wednesday (Sept. 30) from the Financial Times (FT), which said the startup reached this milestone when a share sale doubled its price tag to $22 billion. Investors and...

Artificial Intelligence
BMW Wants AI to Drive Efficiency Amid Staffing Reduction
September 30, 2026

BMW is reportedly hoping to use AI to increase efficiency as it plans sweeping job cuts. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be a crucial part of the German carmaker’s plans to reduce costs and speed development, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday (Sept. 30) from a BMW investor...

B2B Payments
Tungsten Debuts Tool to Streamline Invoice-to-Pay Automation
September 30, 2026

Tungsten Automation has introduced the accounts payable automation engine for its invoice-to-pay platform. The workflow automation company’s new InvoiceAgility+ is designed to use agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to provide end-to-end invoice-to-pay automation, combining things like global compliance and supplier connectivity into one solution, per a Wednesday...

Artificial Intelligence
AI Giants Sign Safety Pact With No Teeth
September 30, 2026

Calls to regulate artificial intelligence have grown louder this year, including from inside the industry. The White House answered Tuesday (Sept. 29) with a pact that leaves the policing to the companies building the most powerful models. President Donald Trump and executives from Anthropic, OpenAI,...

Artificial Intelligence
FTC Investigating Tech Giants Over AI’s Potential Threat to Consumers
September 30, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly facing a regulatory investigation over their tech’s safety. The investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) focuses on the potential dangers artificial intelligence (AI) poses to consumers, a senior commission official told Reuters Wednesday (Sept. 30). According to the report, this marks the first official U.S. regulatory...