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Retail
Halloween Is Coming Early and Bringing AI With It
September 05, 2026

Labor Day traditionally tells Northeasterners to locate a sweater, inspect the foliage and pretend the beach chairs will be stored before Thanksgiving. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

Investments
PayPal Pauses Venture Capital Portfolio Sale After Lowball Offers
September 04, 2026

PayPal has paused its planned sale of its venture capital portfolio after offers came in at no higher than 60 cents on the dollar, Seeking Alpha reported Friday (Sept. 4), citing a paywalled article by Axios that was based on unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Artificial Intelligence
PicPay Launches Anthropic Claude Integration for Banking Inquiries
September 04, 2026

Brazilian digital bank PicPay has begun rolling out an integration with Anthropic’s Claude that enables PicPay customers to check financial information in Claude by using natural-language commands. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Artificial Intelligence
Williams-Sonoma’s AI Assistant Triples Shopper Purchases
September 04, 2026

Williams-Sonoma is putting hard numbers behind what conversational artificial intelligence can do for a retailer’s bottom line. 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...

B2B Payments
24/7 Money Means Treasury Needs to Figure Out Its Weekend Plans
September 04, 2026

The banking day is disappearing faster than the treasury operating model built around it. 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...

Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI and Anthropic Get 80% of Revenue From 1% of Customers
September 04, 2026

Enterprise artificial intelligence adoption is spreading, but the money is piling up fast among a small group of companies. New data from Ramp shows the top 1% of customers account for 80% of enterprise revenue at both OpenAI and Anthropic, a concentration that has held...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Expands Credit Facility to $15 Billion Ahead of Mega IPO
September 04, 2026

Anthropic is preparing to finalize an expansion of its revolving credit facility to $15 billion, up from the $2.5 billion facility it secured last year, Bloomberg reported Friday (Sept. 4), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Artificial Intelligence
800 AI Agents Now Run GE Appliances’ Factory Floor
September 03, 2026

GE Appliances has deployed more than 800 artificial intelligence agents across its manufacturing, logistics and supply chain operations, using Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise, the company said in its announcement. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Payment Methods
ACI Worldwide to Add Microservices Card Switching Through Cranium Acquisition
September 03, 2026

ACI Worldwide has agreed to acquire Cranium Ventures, a privately held developer of cloud-native card payment switching technology, as it seeks to expand its card-processing capabilities. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...