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Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia Bets $13B on Open Source With Hugging Face Deal
September 03, 2026

Nvidia agreed to acquire artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to a Thursday (Sept. 3) company blog post by Founder and CEO Jensen Huang. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Payments Innovation
Lawmakers Test the Rules for AI Agents That Move Money
September 03, 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents, stablecoins and tokenized securities put some of the mechanics of digital finance before lawmakers Wednesday (Sept. 2), including how software-driven transactions will be authorized and settled. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

B2B Payments
Suppliers Put Payment Acceptance to Work
September 03, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence
Most Banks Wait Six Years for AI Payback. Discovery Didn’t.
September 02, 2026

Banks have a lot of data on their customers, but most of it sits unused. The customer gets flooded the same generic offer everyone else gets, and the bank misses a warning sign of fraud its own systems could have caught earlier, simply because nothing...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Gives Retailers Blueprint for AI Shopping Agents
September 02, 2026

Anthropic is giving retailers a set of blueprints to build artificial intelligence agents that can help shoppers find products and assist merchants with tasks including inventory, pricing and marketing, as retailers prepare for the holiday shopping season. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Banking
FNBO Expands Westward by Buying Denver’s InBank
September 02, 2026

First National Bank of Omaha is continuing its expansion push by acquiring Colorado’s InBank. 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...

Acquiring
TabaPay Aims to Become TabaBank After Raising $155 Million
September 02, 2026

Payment infrastructure platform TabaPay says it plans to acquire Colorado’s Transact Bank. 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 this form,...

Artificial Intelligence
The FTC Is Coming for AI’s Honesty Problem
September 02, 2026

The Federal Trade Commission wants to use existing consumer protection law against artificial intelligence companies that present their systems as accurate but deliberately steer answers toward another goal without clearly telling users. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Payments Innovation
The G20 Is Coming for Stablecoins’ Best Cross-Border Sales Pitch
September 02, 2026

Stablecoins have pinned their corporate finance hopes on a straightforward proposition: better cross-border B2B payments. Traditional cross-border payments are constrained by banking hours, fragmented data and layers of intermediaries. Digital dollars, by contrast, can move continuously across programmable networks. Get the Full Story Complete the...