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Artificial Intelligence
Google Says New Frontier Model Excels at Deep Work Across Domains
October 13, 2026

Google’s new frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, is now available to developers, enterprises, scientists and consumers, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 13) blog post. “Argon excels at deep work in complex, real-world tasks across domains including coding, finance, legal, cybersecurity and science,” Google said in the post. Google...

Artificial Intelligence
Goldman Sachs CEO Flags Financing Risk in AI Buildout
October 13, 2026

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon’s comments on artificial intelligence flagged a financing risk with implications beyond Wall Street. How will companies fund an infrastructure expansion that could require trillions of dollars, and which projects will justify the expense? The bank’s third-quarter earnings results reflected the...

Artificial Intelligence
400 Scientists Call for AI Containment Systems and Incident Reports
October 13, 2026

More than 400 scientists have signed an open letter calling for additional measures on artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. The scientists recommend that organizations involved with cyber-capable AI models adopt high-assurance containment systems; work with governments and experts in the fields of AI and cybersecurity to...

Artificial Intelligence
61 Million Shoppers Now Start Their Search With AI Assistance
October 13, 2026

New research shows that consumers are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools to conduct their product research. An October PYMNTS Intelligence report titled “From Prompt to Purchase: Who Wins the AI Shopper?” argues that this shift has created a major commercial opportunity for merchants to win...

Artificial Intelligence
AI Robots Are Ready for Whatever Shoppers Send Back
October 13, 2026

Every returned item has to be picked up, identified and sorted before it can be sold again, and that work has long resisted automation. “If a system only works on articles it has seen before, it does not work in a returns operation at all,”...

Artificial Intelligence
AI Labs Having Second Thoughts on Independent Safety Evaluations
October 13, 2026

The call for oversight may be coming from inside the artificial intelligence industry’s own house, but the callers don’t want it going any further. Weeks after agreeing on a voluntary program to allow outside evaluators see inside their labs, OpenAI and Anthropic are seeking to...

Artificial Intelligence
Ramp’s $1.5 Million Week of Spending Leads to Glass AI Tool
October 13, 2026

Ramp will begin offering its in-house artificial intelligence tool, Glass, to other companies, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 13) company blog post written by Co-Founder and Co-CEO Eric Glyman. Ramp built Glass following a week in May in which the spend management firm burned through...

Retail
Domino’s Uses Personalization to Fix Slumping Sales Growth
October 13, 2026

Domino’s is meeting a customer need for more personalized product options as it works to boost same-store sales growth, the company’s new CEO, Joe Jordan, said Tuesday (Oct. 13) during a third-quarter earnings call. Jordan, who was previously chief operating officer and president of Domino’s...

B2B Payments
PYMNTS Finds Enterprises Outpace Middle-Market Firms in Payment Guarantee Adoption
October 13, 2026

Large corporations are racing ahead in payment guarantee adoption while middle-market organizations hesitate over technical hurdles and upfront expenses across the evolving digital economy. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Payment Guarantee Gap: Why Adoption Lags Despite Perceived Value,” a collaboration with Plaid, found in October...