Artificial Intelligence

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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AI Agents Just Got Their Own Company Credit Cards
August 12, 2026

Mercury this week gave artificial intelligence agents something companies routinely give new employees: a corporate card of their own. Extending that perk to an agent, not a person, is new. Agent cards treat the agent exactly like that new hire, with its own payment credential,...

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Google Reports Gemini App Is Its Fastest Product to 1 Billion Users
August 12, 2026

Google’s artificial intelligence app, the Gemini app, now has more than 1 billion monthly users and has become the fastest-growing product in the company’s history, Google said in a Tuesday (Aug. 11) blog post. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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US Intelligence Chief Calls for Digital IDs for AI Agents
August 12, 2026

As its name suggests, the Zero Trust cybersecurity concept says users/devices should not automatically be trusted. 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...

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Wintermute Eyes $1 Billion AI Investment in Shift From Crypto
August 12, 2026

Wintermute reportedly plans to invest $1 billion in high-frequency trading and artificial intelligence (AI) data center infrastructure. 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...

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Your Bank’s AI Agent May Need a Permission Slip
August 12, 2026

Financial regulators and banks have spent years catching artificial intelligence agent mistakes after the fact, tracing errors and assigning blame once the money has already moved. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

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AI Recordkeeping Raises Compliance Questions for Financial Services Firms
August 12, 2026

Financial services firms are moving rapidly to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) in compliance, communications and other business functions, but their use of the technology is raising a deceptively familiar regulatory problem: What records must they keep to prove they complied with rules written before AI...

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Cognition AI Eyes $40 Billion Valuation From New Funding
August 12, 2026

Cognition AI is reportedly planning a funding round that could more than double its valuation. 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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Freight Brokers Want AI That Shows Up Already Working
August 12, 2026

Freight brokers have spent years investing in automation, transportation management systems and, more recently, artificial intelligence. 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...

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Tech’s Big Push to Make AI Content Traceable
August 11, 2026

The internet’s response to AI slop has mostly worked backward. Platforms scan content after it is already uploaded, then try to guess whether a machine wrote it, an inherently probabilistic bet that it is losing ground as synthetic content gets cheaper to produce. Anthropic, Apple,...