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The Web Is Gaslighting AI Agents and Nobody Can Tell 
April 20, 2026

An artificial intelligence (AI) agent finds the best price on a product and completes the purchase. It browses, selects and checks out without a human visiting a single page. Researchers say the listing it processed could have been seeded with hidden instructions, ones indistinguishable from...

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AI Finds Its Best Customer on Main Street
April 20, 2026

Main Street businesses run lean and demand results. There’s no budget for experimentation and no appetite for tools that don’t pay off fast. Every automation must drive revenue, cut costs or save time. That makes Main Street artificial intelligence’s most demanding customer — and its...

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Adobe Launches AI Agents to Automate Marketing Workflows
April 20, 2026

Adobe is enhancing its range of marketing solutions with an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) system, an AI-powered coworker and expanded collaborations with AI platforms. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Zenskar Raises $15 Million for Agentic-Powered Revenue Automation
April 20, 2026

Billing and revenue automation platform Zenskar has raised $15 million in new funding. 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....

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In the Age of Agentic AI, Data Control Is Power
April 20, 2026

As companies rush to deploy agentic AI, a new consensus is taking shape around the data problem underneath the hype. More autonomous AI systems will raise the stakes for how data is created, governed, accessed and protected. Synthetic data needs clearer standards. Real-world data needs...

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Verizon’s Dan Schulman Tells CEOs to Be Open About AI Job Cuts
April 19, 2026

Verizon’s CEO wants his contemporaries to be open about artificial intelligence-related job losses. 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....

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Anthropic and White House Aim to Make Peace in Friday Meeting
April 17, 2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will meet with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in the West Wing on Friday (April 17), according to multiple media reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Permitting Hurdles and Labor Shortages Threaten AI Data Center Timelines
April 17, 2026

Almost 40% of U.S. data center projects are at risk of falling behind schedule, the Financial Times reported Thursday (April 16), citing data from satellite and artificial intelligence (AI) analytics group SynMax. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Anthropic Briefs EU Regulators on Mythos Cybersecurity Concerns
April 17, 2026

European Union officials met with Anthropic Wednesday (April 15) to discuss concerns about the company’s Mythos artificial intelligence (AI) model, and more such meetings are planned, Agence France-Presse reported Thursday (April 16). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...