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SoFi Ventures Into AI Investing With Composer Acquisition
June 23, 2026

Digital financial services app SoFi has introduced an AI-powered investing platform. 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 Today. By completing this form,...

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Backbase Acquires Kasisto for Agentic Banking
June 23, 2026

Banking operating system provider Backbase has acquired banking/financial services-focused artificial intelligence (AI) firm Kasisto. 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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Zafin’s CEO Wants to Build the Control Tower for Enterprise AI
June 23, 2026

Every enterprise is hard at work building a workforce made of software. Almost none of them know how to manage it. How do you govern, audit, measure and coordinate employees that happen to be artificial intelligence agents? Most companies don’t. The problem is too new....

Payments Innovation
Payment Processors Can’t Win on Uptime Alone Anymore
June 23, 2026

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Matthew Pearce of i2c  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 Today. By completing...

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Banks Replace Real Customers With AI Clones for Product Testing
June 22, 2026

Testing a new credit card or banking product once required months of regulatory vetting and customer recruitment. Now banks build the customer instead. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

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Samsung Rolls Out OpenAI Tools to Workforce in Major Enterprise Push
June 22, 2026

Samsung Electronics deployed OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to its entire South Korean workforce and select international divisions, Seeking Alpha reported Monday (June 22). The deployment marks one of the artificial intelligence developer’s largest corporate adoptions to date. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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California Consumers Sue Gas Stations Over AI Price Fixing
June 22, 2026

A group of California consumers filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that gas station operators including Walmart, Marathon Petroleum, BP and 7-Eleven used an artificial intelligence pricing tool to illegally inflate pump prices in the state, according to a complaint filed in federal court in...

Artificial Intelligence
AI Agents Are Coming for the Instruction Manual
June 22, 2026

When a SharkNinja customer scans a QR code on a product box, there is no confusing manual or phone tree waiting for them. There’s an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that knows exactly which product they have and walks them through setup, step by step, according...

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MoonPay Acquires AI Accounting Agent Maker Entendre
June 22, 2026

Crypto payments company MoonPay has acquired Entendre, which makes artificial intelligence (AI) accounting agents for stablecoin firms. 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...