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Banking
Customers Bank Taps OpenAI to Reengineer Commercial Banking Operations
April 27, 2026

Pennsylvania-headquartered Customers Bank plans to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) across its commercial banking operations in a new multiyear strategic collaboration with OpenAI. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Ran a Marketplace and Bots Closed Every Deal
April 27, 2026

Anthropic ran a test that took the human out of the transaction entirely. The artificial intelligence company built a private marketplace for select employees and deployed software agents on both sides of every deal, letting them search listings, make offers and close deals without human...

Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Agrees to End Revenue-Sharing With OpenAI
April 27, 2026

OpenAI has forged a new revenue and technology agreement with partner/artificial intelligence (AI) competitor Microsoft. 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,...

Artificial Intelligence
CFOs Suffer From Consumption as Tech Teams AI Tokenmaxx
April 27, 2026

Enterprise software helped redefine corporate billing and make it CFO-friendly. Annual licenses, multi-year agreements and seat-based pricing models created a stable cost structure that finance teams could forecast with reasonable accuracy. Even cloud computing, for all its variability, eventually settled into patterns that procurement and...

Artificial Intelligence
DeepSeek Pitches Deep Discounts Amid Fierce AI Competition
April 27, 2026

DeepSeek has begun offering developers discounts amid increasing competition in China’s artificial intelligence (AI) space. 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...

Investments
Sereact Raises $110 Million to Scale AI Robotic Brain
April 27, 2026

German startup Sereact has raised $110 million to develop its AI robotics model. 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 Today. By completing...

Payments Innovation
Agentic Commerce Forces a Rethink of Card Infrastructure
April 27, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence
AI Agents Move From Demo Day to Desk Work
April 27, 2026

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to move from conference-room promise to operating-room reality in financial services, where banks, insurers and asset managers are testing software agents on the manual work that slows down decisions. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Artificial Intelligence
Alibaba Embeds Voice AI Into Chinese Vehicles
April 26, 2026

Chinese tech giant Alibaba plans to add its Qwen AI model into several vehicle brands. 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,...