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PayPal Reopens Sale Talks With Stripe After Rejecting First Offer
August 14, 2026

PayPal Holdings is in talks with a group that includes Stripe and Advent International, negotiating to sell itself at a price potentially higher than the one the companies offered in July, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Friday (Aug. 14), citing unnamed sources. Get the...

Artificial Intelligence
Speed Becomes the Product as OpenAI and Google Sell Faster AI
August 14, 2026

OpenAI and Google both released faster artificial intelligence models this week. Both put speed at the center of the pitch, and both are starting to treat response time as something businesses will pay for on its own. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Goldman Sachs Mobilizes Investors for Nvidia’s $500 Billion AI Infrastructure Push
August 14, 2026

Goldman Sachs is talking with potential investors about participating in Nvidia’s $500 billion artificial intelligence financing initiative that was announced Monday (Aug. 10), Reuters reported Friday (Aug. 13). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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Enterprise AI’s Hottest Job Just Found Its Biggest Skeptic
August 14, 2026

The fastest-growing job in enterprise AI is the forward-deployed engineer, the specialist companies hire to make the software actually work inside their walls. Decagon, a customer service artificial intelligence startup that crossed $100 million in annualized revenue three years after launching, thinks that job should...

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AI Turns Sports’ Dead Air Into a Selling Season
August 14, 2026

Sports commerce has always clustered around the calendar, spiking for a tournament, a championship run or a merchandise drop. Between those peaks, the commercial relationship between a team and its fans goes dormant. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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The Cloud Risk CFOs Aren’t Measuring: What Happens When a Vendor Disappears?
August 14, 2026

There’s a new nightmare scenario in enterprise cloud computing, and it’s not an AI-driven cyberattack. It’s a vendor simply going out of business and disappearing. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

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US AI Labs Cut Prices 25% in 1 Month to Fend Off Chinese Rivals
August 14, 2026

Consumers are paying nearly 25% less for artificial intelligence models from leading U.S. labs than they were in mid-July, following price cuts announced by OpenAI and Anthropic, the Financial Times reported Friday (Aug. 14), citing data from Silicon Data. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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OpenAI’s Revenue Run Rate Tops $40 Billion as IPO Nears
August 14, 2026

OpenAI is now on pace to bring in annualized revenue of more than $40 billion, roughly double its run rate from the end of 2025. The jump gives the ChatGPT maker fresh momentum as it prepares to go public. For the banking, payments and fintech...

Artificial Intelligence
SoFi Teaches Its AI Coach to Read the Financial Room
August 14, 2026

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