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Artificial Intelligence
Aston Martin F1 Uses AI to Monitor Rival Radio
October 09, 2026

Aston Martin’s Formula One team now listens to 40 race radio channels at once, with artificial intelligence transcribing and sorting each message within five seconds, CoreWeave said. The system lets a race engineer ask how rival drivers are finding a tire compound and get an...

Artificial Intelligence
Bending Spoons Deploys AI to Overhaul Acquired Software Companies
October 09, 2026

Artificial intelligence has been valuable to Bending Spoons, a company that buys digital businesses and then increases their revenue per customer, CEO Luca Ferrari told Bloomberg in a report published Friday (Oct. 9). Bending Spoons’ portfolio includes AOL, Vimeo, WeTransfer and Evernote. When the firm...

Artificial Intelligence
Banks Put AI Agents Through Performance Reviews
October 09, 2026

A fund manager in Hong Kong emails BNY at 2 a.m. New York time about a transfer that hasn’t settled. A software agent can read it, pull the records and draft a reply. A human manager reviews the draft before it goes out, Microsoft reported...

Cross-border Payments
Mastercard CEO Says Stablecoins Solve Cross-Border Payment Delays
October 09, 2026

Cross-border payments are proving to be the strongest use case for stablecoins, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach said Friday (Oct. 9), Bloomberg reported. During an interview with Bloomberg TV, Miebach said stablecoins provide an alternative to traditional methods of cross-border payments that take days and have unclear fees. “From a working...

Payments Innovation
Automation and AI Move Deeper Into Payment Exceptions
October 09, 2026

Much of payment processing already happens without an employee touching the transaction. The “hands-on” interactions come when payments fail to clear, or transactions trigger fraud reviews. In other cases requiring manual oversight, payments don’t match the invoices, ledgers or bank records surrounding them. The August...

Cross-border Payments
AI Agents Can Make Cross-Border Payments Faster, But Not Fix Why They Fail
October 09, 2026

Moving money across borders may be one of the last steps in an international payment. Getting the money ready to move can take considerably longer. Before a multinational company pays an overseas supplier, its finance team often needs to verify the counterparty, reconcile an invoice...

Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Projects $20 Billion Jump in Annualized Revenue Before Year End
October 09, 2026

OpenAI expects its annualized revenue to reach at least $70 billion by the end of the year, up from $50 billion at the end of September, Bloomberg reported Friday (Oct. 9), citing unnamed sources. The expected gains are being driven by growth in OpenAI’s enterprise...

Artificial Intelligence
Splitit CEO Says AI Agents Need the Full Financial Picture to Pick Pay Later
October 09, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With Splitit’s Nandan Sheth Artificial intelligence could turn pay later from an offer at checkout into advice about whether financing the purchase makes sense in the first place. Doing that requires more than finding the lowest monthly payment. An agent...

Artificial Intelligence
59% of Firms With AI Fraud Defenses Stop Losses Before They Start
October 09, 2026

Businesses that combine several artificial intelligence tools to fight payments fraud are nearly twice as likely to stop at least 90% of attempted attacks before losing money, according to new PYMNTS Intelligence research. “Prevention First: Building a Smarter Defense Against Payments Fraud” is a PYMNTS...