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PYMNTS covers artificial intelligence as it transforms payments, commerce and financial services, from generative AI and agentic commerce to fraud detection, underwriting and customer engagement. Our reporting pairs breaking news with proprietary data and expert analysis to examine how AI is reshaping business models, operational efficiency and competitive dynamics across the connected economy.
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SoFi Teaches Its AI Coach to Read the Financial Room
August 14, 2026

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Nearly 4 in 10 CFOs See Gen AI Paying Off Within Two Years
August 14, 2026

CFOs have stopped treating generative artificial intelligence returns as one date circled on the calendar. By December, 39.1% expected very positive returns within one to two years, even as 26.1% expected the payoff to take six years or longer. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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AI Just Got Its First 24/7 TV Channel
August 13, 2026

Fairground AI Creator TV is a channel that runs entirely artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video 24 hours a day, seven days a week, interrupted only by AI-generated commercials. That makes it the first free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel built exclusively from AI content, Fairground Entertainment...

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar Built an AI-Native Department. Mid-Market CFOs Can Start Smaller.
August 13, 2026

Most mid-market CFOs are not going to build OpenAI’s finance stack. They do not have the same engineering resources, access to frontier models or appetite for rebuilding finance workflows from first principles. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Microsoft Unifies Consumer and Enterprise Copilot in Push for Single Platform
August 13, 2026

Microsoft has begun combining its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single product, starting a gradual transition that will culminate in a super app the company has been building to compete more directly with ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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DeepSeek Introduces Peak-Hour Pricing That Quadruples Current Levels
August 13, 2026

DeepSeek is adding peak-hour pricing for its flagship V4 models that will quadruple the current levels, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13). 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...

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CodeRabbit Raises $143 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation to Govern AI-Generated Code
August 13, 2026

Inside engineering organizations, the sequence of software development is changing. Developers, product managers, background agents and connected systems can now generate code or open pull requests continuously, meaning code can exist before a team has established alignment or determined whether the work should ship. That...

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One Dog’s Cancer Vaccine Just Became a Real Company
August 13, 2026

The story went viral in March: a Sydney tech entrepreneur used ChatGPT and computational genomics to help design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his dying dog, and several of her tumors shrank. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Anthropic Pursues $6 Billion Decart Deal to Cut AI Costs
August 13, 2026

Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart AI, a startup that makes chips work more efficiently to reduce the cost of training and operating artificial intelligence, for $6 billion, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...