Artificial Intelligence

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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Finance Teams Embrace AI but Many Still Struggle to Unlock Working Capital
October 12, 2026

Corporate treasury is approaching an uncomfortable reality about artificial intelligence. Almost every firm has it, but relatively few companies can demonstrate that it is making them financially better off. Findings in the latest 2026 edition of the Working Capital Index (WCI) from PYMNTS Intelligence reveal...

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AI Agents Give Main Street Businesses Big Business Muscle
October 12, 2026

Running a small business has always meant doing more with less. The owner takes the morning shift, answers customer emails on lunch, reconciles the books at night and handles scheduling on weekends. Every hour spent on operations is an hour not spent on the work...

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Amazon Weighs $7 Billion Purchase of AI Startup Decart
October 11, 2026

Amazon is reportedly in discussions to purchase artificial intelligence startup Decart in a roughly $7 billion deal. That’s according to a report Sunday (Oct. 11) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing sources familiar with the matter. Those sources say a deal could come together...

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White House Says All AI Companies Must Report Security Incidents
October 11, 2026

The White House is reportedly requiring artificial intelligence companies to report and correct security incidents. The mandate from the White House Super Intelligence Force came Friday (Oct. 9) after Anthropic disclosed a series of breaches, Axios reported. “This notification and remediation process is not optional,”...

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Nvidia Looks to Purchase Open-Weight AI Firm Reflection
October 11, 2026

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to acquire Reflection AI, a U.S. maker of open-weight artificial intelligence models. That’s according to a report Saturday (Oct. 10) by the Financial Times (FT), which noted that the White House has been counting on U.S. open-weight models to rival...

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Microsoft CEO Calls for Safeguards Against Rogue AI
October 11, 2026

Microsoft’s CEO says companies should assume powerful artificial intelligence models could be compromised and create an “emergency brake” to rein them in. In comments posted to X on Saturday (Oct. 10) Satya Nadella argued that it is not enough to depend on assurances from the...

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AI Companies Expected to Drive 31% Uptick in Q3 Earnings
October 11, 2026

American third-quarter corporate earnings are reportedly set to jump on the strength of artificial intelligence. That’s according to a report Friday (Oct. 9) by Reuters, which noted that investors are both enthusiastic about this surge but concerned about its longevity. Analysts are expecting a roughly...

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EU Tech Chief Says AI Act Can Contain Rogue Agents
October 11, 2026

The guardrails put in place by the European Union’s AI Act are capable of meeting the risk posed by rogue artificial intelligence agents, EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen told Reuters in an interview published Friday (Oct. 9). “We see that the safety and security of very capable models...

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Aston Martin F1 Uses AI to Monitor Rival Radio
October 09, 2026

Aston Martin’s Formula One team now listens to 40 race radio channels at once, with artificial intelligence transcribing and sorting each message within five seconds, CoreWeave said. The system lets a race engineer ask how rival drivers are finding a tire compound and get an...