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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...

Retail
Why the Mall of the Future Won’t Have a Parking Lot
August 12, 2026

Every morning, they start showing up to shop. By the time the East Coast is at work, the crowd is in the tens of millions. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

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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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Target Appoints Lowe’s Veteran Chandhu Nair as First Chief AI Officer
August 11, 2026

Target has appointed its first chief artificial intelligence officer, the company said in a Tuesday (Aug. 11) article. 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...

Investments
HappyRobot Vaults to $1.2 Billion Valuation as Enterprise Demand for AI Automation Soars
August 11, 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) agent platform HappyRobot was valued at $1.2 billion post-money in a Series C funding round in which it raised $150 million, the company said in an Aug. 4 press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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Amex Ventures Funds Fazeshift’s Agentic AI Expansion Beyond Accounts Receivable
August 11, 2026

Fazeshift has secured an investment from Amex Ventures to help expand its artificial intelligence agent platform beyond accounts receivable and into additional finance operations, Fazeshift said in a Tuesday (Aug. 11) press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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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,...