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OpenAI Expects to Have 220 Million Paid Subscribers by 2030
November 26, 2025

OpenAI reportedly expects ChatGPT to have at least 220 million paid subscribers by 2030, up from 35 million today. 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...

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Anthropic Pushes Back as Hackers Press AI Weak Spots
November 26, 2025

Anthropic published research Monday (Nov. 24) showing its Claude Opus 4.5 model, released the same day, reduced successful prompt injection attacks to 1% in browser-based operations, down from earlier versions that faced higher breach rates when adversaries embedded malicious instructions in web content. Get the...

Retail
Tariffs Bring Small Businesses Tough Choices for the Holidays
November 26, 2025

With the holiday shopping rush approaching, smaller retailers are facing an unpleasant, tariff-related choice. 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...

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Brands Shell Out Big to Get Noticed by AI Agents
November 26, 2025

As AI agents grow in popularity, retailers are reportedly spending to attract their attention. 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...

Payments Innovation
A New Stage for Big Conversations: The Story Behind CHNGNetwork
November 26, 2025

Professionals in payments, FinTech and the digital economy already face crowded calendars and a nonstop flow of industry information. 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...

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Tapestry Rewrites the Retail Playbook by Thinking Like a Tech Company
November 26, 2025

Watch more: Where Magic Meets Logic: How Tapestry Is Redefining Retail With Data and AI 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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Google and Anthropic Drop AI Prices and Release New Models
November 25, 2025

Two major artificial intelligence (AI) releases landed less than a week apart. Google introduced Gemini 3 on Nov. 18, presenting the model as a major step forward in multimodal reasoning and visual understanding. PYMNTS reported that the launch marked a deeper shift in Google’s approach...

Artificial Intelligence
Researchers Train AI Agents to Share Complex Tasks
November 25, 2025

Researchers at Imperial College London and Ant Group, part of the Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Group, introduced a new method for training groups of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to work together on complex tasks, presenting a framework that coordinates a main agent that plans steps and...

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AI Agents Trigger New Payments Regulatory Questions
November 25, 2025

Google’s release of its Agent Payments Protocol marks an incremental shift in how commerce will operate, and toward an automatic future when it comes to transactions. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...