A consumer who tells an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to book a vacation for under $3,000 has approved a budget, not every choice the agent makes to stay inside it. The agent can pick the airline, accept a nonrefundable fare, add travel insurance and split...
Local commerce platform DoorDash introduced a platform that provides brands with purchase-based signals from consumer orders and audit-based signals from shelf scans, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 23) press release. With this information, the new Brand Center delivers insights into on-shelf availability and...
The founders of open banking platform Tink have launched a new compliance platform. Freda, which came out of stealth Wednesday (Sept. 23), has its roots in what its founders saw at their former company, CEO Daniel Kjellén said in a LinkedIn post announcing the launch. “At Tink, we’d watched compliance become...
New York is giving the largest artificial intelligence (AI) model developers a compliance calendar. Starting in November, the state will direct them to register under its RAISE Act. In January, requirements for public safety protocols, regular reporting and notice of critical incidents take effect. For...
Like clockwork, the season of temporary retail, in the form of pop-up stores, is here. Spirit Halloween is opening more than 1,550 seasonal stores across North America this year. Other retailers are doing the same thing on a smaller scale. Hallmark plans a limited-time holiday...
It’s the year 2026, and net-30 terms still dominate the corporate landscape. Companies have digitized invoices, automated accounts payable, connected bank accounts through APIs, and built future-proof, sophisticated cash forecasts. But one of the most consequential financial decisions between businesses, exactly when money changes hands,...
Revolut and Nubank, the world’s two most-valued digital banks, want to conquer the United States, the Financial Times reported Wednesday (Sept. 23). Both companies obtained conditional approval for U.S. banking charters this year, and Brazil-based Nubank officially debuted its offering this month. However, the two...
Ema raised $77 million in a Series B funding round to expand its AI Employee platform that delivers autonomous artificial intelligence agents to perform work in human resources (HR), information technology (IT) and finance, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 23) press release. This...
Amazon’s next artificial intelligence push for merchants is less about giving sellers better answers than reducing how often they need to ask questions at all. Mary Beth Westmoreland, vice president, Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, at Amazon, told PYMNTS in an exclusive conversation Wednesday (Sept. 23)...