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Robinhood Lets AI Agents Trade Without Customer Sign-Off
October 01, 2026

Robinhood is giving retail investors new access to artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can trade for them. Customers approve each order by default. They can also turn approvals off and let the agent act alone. The company unveiled Robinhood Agents at its HOOD Summit in...

Retail
Walmart Uses Flashing Digital Shelf Labels to Help Shoppers Find Items
October 01, 2026

Walmart is using flashing lights on its digital shelf labels to help customers and associates find the product they’re looking for, the company said in a Thursday (Oct. 1) press release. With a feature dubbed “Shop to Light,” in-store shoppers can ask the Walmart app...

Artificial Intelligence
Hacking Is Getting Cheaper Faster Than Enterprises Can Make Software Safer
October 01, 2026

Enterprises are spending heavily to make software capable of acting autonomously across increasingly valuable company systems. But the return on that investment depends on giving those systems authority. And authority creates exposure. Companies are connecting artificial intelligence tools to code repositories, cloud infrastructure, corporate databases...

Artificial Intelligence
Barclays Accelerates AI Rollout With Anthropic’s Claude Code
October 01, 2026

British universal bank Barclays expects half of its developers to be using Anthropic’s agentic artificial intelligence coding tool Claude Code by the end of the year, and most of them to be using it by the end of 2027, Anthropic said in a Thursday (Oct....

Artificial Intelligence
Agentic AI Turns Transit Data Into More Targeted Decisions
October 01, 2026

A bus route can look healthy on paper while struggling in the streets. In Salvador, Brazil, researchers found that broad measures of passenger demand could obscure differences from one part of a route to another. Their agentic artificial intelligence system, SUNTInsight, was designed to let...

Acquiring
Nubank Says It Has No Plans to Acquire Monzo
October 01, 2026

Nubank thinks highly of fellow digital bank Monzo but doesn’t want to buy it. The Brazilian lender made that pronouncement Wednesday (Sept. 30) in a securities filing, prompted by recent news reports that it was interested in acquiring the U.K.-based Monzo. “As a matter of general...

B2B Payments
Study Finds CFOs Find AI Can’t Clear Every Cash Flow Bottleneck
October 01, 2026

A shorter cash cycle should feel like a victory lap. For many CFOs, it now comes with a longer list of risks. PYMNTS Intelligence, in collaboration with J.P.Morgan, examines how U.S. finance teams are speeding cash flow while customers, suppliers and fraud threats make the...

Artificial Intelligence
FIS Sees Smarter Payments Powering AI Agents
October 01, 2026

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Mike Magennis of FIS Fall brings football, starting lineups and plenty of arguments over who deserves the first pick. Mike Magennis, senior director of Strategy, Networks at FIS, said he already knows what he would take first in...

Mobile Commerce
Apple Readies Launch of Smart Home Hub
September 30, 2026

Apple plans to announce a new smart home product and two updated ones on Oct. 13, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Sept. 30), citing unnamed sources. The new product is a smart home hub that will recognize the user; display that person’s contacts, messages, calendar appointments, notes...