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Retail
Rent the Runway Names Nordstrom Veteran Paige Thomas CEO
September 11, 2026

Rent the Runway appointed its chief commercial officer and Nordstrom veteran, Paige Thomas, as CEO, president and member of the board of directors, the company said in a Friday (Sept. 11) press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia Becomes the World’s Most Active $100 Million-Plus VC Investor
September 11, 2026

Five years ago, GPU maker Nvidia participated in just one venture funding round worth $100 million or more. 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...

Artificial Intelligence
Rivian’s AI Agents Cut 15 Days From Every Close
September 11, 2026

Electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian automated one of the more tedious jobs in corporate finance: tracking how much to set aside for custom manufacturing tools it has ordered but not yet received a bill for. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Acquiring
MoonPay Buys Rhythm in Latest Strategic Acquisition Move
September 11, 2026

MoonPay has acquired Rhythm, an on-chain trading signals platform, to promote the adoption of online trading, MoonPay said in a press release emailed to PYMNTS. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

Retail
AFL-CIO Think Tank Seeks Ban on Electronic Shelf Labels
September 11, 2026

The AFL-CIO Tech Institute, a think tank established in 2021 by the AFL-CIO labor union, is calling on policymakers to ban the use of electronic shelf labels (ESLs) in grocery stores. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Targets the Work Junior Bankers Do
September 11, 2026

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services Thursday (Sept. 10), according to an announcement on its website. The product is a tailored version of ChatGPT Work, built with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners. It runs on GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s newest model, and combines it...

B2B Payments
What a $13 Million DOJ Case Reveals About B2B’s KYB Problem
September 11, 2026

The next frontier of know your business (KYB) may have surprisingly little to do with knowing whether a business exists. Instead, the governance and operational advantage is shifting to how a business has changed since Firm A last engaged with Firm B, or C or...

Artificial Intelligence
Sam Altman Floats Industrywide Pause as Frontier AI Safety Concerns Grow
September 11, 2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that the firm is considering slowing down its development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, Bloomberg reported Friday (Sept. 11), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Artificial Intelligence
Squint’s Founder Turns Factory Know-How Into AI’s Starting Point
September 11, 2026

Ask a veteran factory technician how to fix a machine that’s acting up, and the answer might sound less like an engineering manual and more like folklore: if it smells like this, hit it three times on the left side and it comes back to...