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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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Microsoft Unifies Consumer and Enterprise Copilot in Push for Single Platform
August 13, 2026

Microsoft has begun combining its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single product, starting a gradual transition that will culminate in a super app the company has been building to compete more directly with ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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DeepSeek Introduces Peak-Hour Pricing That Quadruples Current Levels
August 13, 2026

DeepSeek is adding peak-hour pricing for its flagship V4 models that will quadruple the current levels, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13). 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...

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CodeRabbit Raises $143 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation to Govern AI-Generated Code
August 13, 2026

Inside engineering organizations, the sequence of software development is changing. Developers, product managers, background agents and connected systems can now generate code or open pull requests continuously, meaning code can exist before a team has established alignment or determined whether the work should ship. That...

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One Dog’s Cancer Vaccine Just Became a Real Company
August 13, 2026

The story went viral in March: a Sydney tech entrepreneur used ChatGPT and computational genomics to help design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his dying dog, and several of her tumors shrank. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Anthropic Pursues $6 Billion Decart Deal to Cut AI Costs
August 13, 2026

Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart AI, a startup that makes chips work more efficiently to reduce the cost of training and operating artificial intelligence, for $6 billion, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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White House AI Testing Shift Could Put Open Models Back in the Risk File
August 13, 2026

The White House is reportedly preparing to bring powerful open-weight AI models into its voluntary pre-release cybersecurity testing framework, a move that could narrow a gap that had started to matter for banks, payment firms and merchants choosing among artificial intelligence vendors. Get the Full Story Complete...

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Maverick Payments Integrates Findustry AI Agent to Automate Chargeback Rebuttals
August 13, 2026

Merchants and partners using the Maverick Payments platform can now access Findustry AI’s Chargeback Agent to automate the dispute workflow, the companies said in a Thursday (Aug. 13) press release emailed to PYMNTS. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Anthropic Could Seek $2 Trillion Valuation in Record IPO
August 13, 2026

Anthropic could bring the artificial intelligence boom to its biggest public-market test yet. Investors expect the Claude developer to pursue a valuation of at least $2 trillion in an October initial public offering, a level that would make it the largest stock-market debut in history....

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Apple Discusses Paying Publishers to Improve Siri
August 13, 2026

Apple’s push to repair Siri could open an important new revenue channel for publishers and establish a different model for how artificial intelligence companies pay for news. Instead of buying broad access to a publisher’s archives, Apple is considering compensating media companies when Siri actually...