Short-term rental operators spent years pricing by hand, answering guest messages at midnight and chasing cleaners between checkouts. A growing number have stopped: artificial intelligence (AI) now handles pricing, guest communication, staff scheduling and maintenance coordination. Some operators are spending $30,000 to $50,000 a month...
OpenAI is collaborating on the development of smartphone processors and may build a new artificial intelligence agent ecosystem based on a phone, TF International Securities Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote in a Sunday (April 26) article on X. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
Ineffable Intelligence, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup launched by Google DeepMind veteran David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion. 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...
Anthropic ran a test that took the human out of the transaction entirely. The artificial intelligence company built a private marketplace for select employees and deployed software agents on both sides of every deal, letting them search listings, make offers and close deals without human...
OpenAI has forged a new revenue and technology agreement with partner/artificial intelligence (AI) competitor Microsoft. 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,...
Enterprise software helped redefine corporate billing and make it CFO-friendly. Annual licenses, multi-year agreements and seat-based pricing models created a stable cost structure that finance teams could forecast with reasonable accuracy. Even cloud computing, for all its variability, eventually settled into patterns that procurement and...
DeepSeek has begun offering developers discounts amid increasing competition in China’s artificial intelligence (AI) space. 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...
Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to move from conference-room promise to operating-room reality in financial services, where banks, insurers and asset managers are testing software agents on the manual work that slows down decisions. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
Chinese tech giant Alibaba plans to add its Qwen AI model into several vehicle brands. 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,...
