New York is giving the largest artificial intelligence (AI) model developers a compliance calendar. Starting in November, the state will direct them to register under its RAISE Act. In January, requirements for public safety protocols, regular reporting and notice of critical incidents take effect. For...
Like clockwork, the season of temporary retail, in the form of pop-up stores, is here. Spirit Halloween is opening more than 1,550 seasonal stores across North America this year. Other retailers are doing the same thing on a smaller scale. Hallmark plans a limited-time holiday...
It’s the year 2026, and net-30 terms still dominate the corporate landscape. Companies have digitized invoices, automated accounts payable, connected bank accounts through APIs, and built future-proof, sophisticated cash forecasts. But one of the most consequential financial decisions between businesses, exactly when money changes hands,...
Revolut and Nubank, the world’s two most-valued digital banks, want to conquer the United States, the Financial Times reported Wednesday (Sept. 23). Both companies obtained conditional approval for U.S. banking charters this year, and Brazil-based Nubank officially debuted its offering this month. However, the two...
Ema raised $77 million in a Series B funding round to expand its AI Employee platform that delivers autonomous artificial intelligence agents to perform work in human resources (HR), information technology (IT) and finance, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 23) press release. This...
Amazon’s next artificial intelligence push for merchants is less about giving sellers better answers than reducing how often they need to ask questions at all. Mary Beth Westmoreland, vice president, Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, at Amazon, told PYMNTS in an exclusive conversation Wednesday (Sept. 23)...
J.P. Morgan Chase is reportedly exploring whether other funding sources could approve some of the cards it rejects. That’s according to a report late Tuesday (Sept. 22) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which notes that the banking giant’s plan could give the private credit...
Anthropic has reportedly launched a partnership with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical search engine provider OpenEvidence. This collaboration is designed to bring AI-driven clinical decisioning help to doctors in places that can’t access the technology, the companies told Reuters Tuesday (Sept. 22). “Access to medical knowledge...
In the mid-1990s, Procter & Gamble made a stunning claim. They said they’d invented a miracle in a bottle. A chemist working there found a compound that completely got rid of really bad smells instead of covering them up with a fancy perfume-y spray. Stinky...