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Amex and Bread Kick Off NFL-Themed Card Rewards Program
August 26, 2026

American Express and Bread Financial have launched an NFL-related cards rewards program. 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...

Artificial Intelligence
Robot Delivery Is Booming and Cities Want Their Cut
August 26, 2026

Delivery robots are moving past a simple question. Can they use sidewalks? Cities are now asking sharper ones: how many robots, how fast, and what a company should pay to operate them. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Artificial Intelligence
DeepSeek Looks to Raise $7 Billion as Revenues Jump Tenfold
August 26, 2026

Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek has seen its revenues jump by around tenfold since 2025, The Information reported Tuesday (Aug. 25), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

B2B Payments
CFOs Shrink Their Bank Dashboards With Self-Reconciling B2B Payments
August 26, 2026

The real problem in modern receivables isn’t whether cash moves electronically but that payment and remittance information increasingly arrive separately, through portals, email, enterprise resource planning systems, electronic data interchange and spreadsheets. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Artificial Intelligence
Alibaba Targets Coding and Office Tasks With Low-Cost AI Model
August 26, 2026

Alibaba introduced Qwen3.8-Flash, a new artificial intelligence model designed to deliver cost efficiency, the company said in a Wednesday (Aug. 26) post on social platform X. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Acquiring
Priority Commerce Moves Into Public Sector With IntelliPay Acquisition 
August 26, 2026

Priority Technology Holdings is preparing to acquire government/utility payment processing company IntelliPay. 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...

Artificial Intelligence
Splitit CEO Says Payments Firms Must Build for AI, Not Just Use It
August 26, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence
Oumi Want Every Enterprise to Build Its Own AI Brain
August 26, 2026

Oumi launched its Compounding AI Factory this month, a platform built to automate the development of specialized enterprise artificial intelligence models. Instead of assembling a team of machine learning engineers to build, evaluate and improve a model by hand, the company argues AI itself can...

Cross-border Payments
Banks and FinTechs Are Unbundling the Cross-Border Stack to Win Over CFOs
August 25, 2026

Corporate treasurers looking out across global commerce would be forgiven for thinking they see the signs of a new cross-border financial stack taking shape. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...