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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OpenAI Cuts Off Rivals’ Ads on ChatGPT
September 10, 2026

OpenAI told some business partners it will no longer accept ChatGPT advertising for image- and audio-generating products that compete with its own features, The Information reported Wednesday (Sept. 9). It’s a change that hasn’t been previously reported or reflected in OpenAI’s published advertising policy. Adobe...

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Ripple Adds New AI Capabilities to Treasury Offering
September 10, 2026

Ripple has announced an expansion of GSmart, the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities included in its treasury product. Gsmart integrates AI into “the policies, data, and workflows treasury teams use every day,” Ripple said in a Thursday (Sept. 10) news release, with the expansion adding “new...

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How $100 Million CFOs Are Setting Their Neocloud Budgets
September 10, 2026

Forget neobanks. Neoclouds are becoming the hottest new thing in the enterprise tech stack. As artificial intelligence drives unprecedented demand for GPUs, power and data center capacity, a new class of specialized infrastructure providers is emerging alongside Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud....

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Healthcare AI Adoption Runs Into a Global Regulatory Patchwork
September 10, 2026

Healthcare organizations are accelerating their use of artificial intelligence while struggling to reconcile a widening assortment of privacy, security and AI governance requirements across jurisdictions. Participants in a Tuesday (Sept. 8) webinar hosted by the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative warned that conflicting rules governing...

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OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Triggers Senate Probe
September 10, 2026

Lawmakers in the United States are pushing for new rules to govern artificial intelligence, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 10). The effort follows an incident in which OpenAI’s agents hacked the company Hugging Face, as well as comments from Joshua Coxon, an Anthropic researcher worried about...

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BIS Executive Warns Disappointing AI Returns Could Trigger Global Downturn
September 10, 2026

The artificial intelligence investment boom poses potential risks to global financial stability, Bank for International Settlements General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos said Thursday (Sept. 10). In a speech delivered at the Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai, India, de Cos said this boom has...

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Congress Pushes AI Agents Into the Audit Trail
September 10, 2026

U.S. representatives are introducing the Stop Rogue AI Act in the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday (Sept. 10), giving federal policymakers a way to begin defining the security controls organizations may need as autonomous artificial intelligence agents move into production. Introduced by Reps. Josh Gottheimer,...

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PYMNTS Launches BNN With Paulette Rowe’s New ‘Fired Up’ Podcast
September 10, 2026

Listen to the Fired Up podcast with Karen Webster. Artificial intelligence can compress work that once took days into minutes, but companies still must decide what their people should do with the time they get back. That management challenge framed the inaugural episode of “Fired...

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Anthropic Missed Fourth Claude Network Breakout
September 09, 2026

Anthropic said in a Wednesday blog post that it discovered a fourth incident in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to third-party systems. The incident occurred in January but was not discovered during Anthropic’s earlier scan of transcripts that uncovered three other incidents that the...