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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...

Cross-border Payments
Visa Direct Targets Cross-Border Trade’s SMB Payment Gap
September 11, 2026

Watch more: PYMNTS On Air With Justin Zhao of Visa Direct and Ran Grushkowsky of MassPay  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...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Reports Chinese Labs Clone Claude Capabilities on Industrial Scale
September 10, 2026

Seven labs based in China have targeted Anthropic’s generally available Claude models in illicit distillation attacks, Anthropic said in a report released Thursday (Sept. 10). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

Artificial Intelligence
AI Agents Need Permissioned Funding Sources. Not Company Bank Accounts.
September 10, 2026

The trillion-dollar question hovering around agentic commerce is why agents would hold money at all. 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,...