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Anthropic and OpenEvidence Team to Expand Reach of Medical AI
September 23, 2026

Anthropic has reportedly launched a partnership with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical search engine provider OpenEvidence. 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,...

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Agentic Commerce Needs Its Febreze Moment
September 23, 2026

In the mid-1990s, Procter & Gamble made a stunning claim. They said they’d invented a miracle in a bottle. 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...

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OpenAI Recruits External Watchdogs to Police AI Risk
September 22, 2026

OpenAI is talking with multiple independent assessors to help grow the number of such companies that have expertise in frontier artificial intelligence safety and can provide effective third-party assessments, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 22) blog post. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Meta Tests Human Callers for Muse After Merchants Hang Up on AI
September 22, 2026

Meta tested having human contractors handle some calls for the phone-calling feature of its personal artificial intelligence assistant Muse, Reuters reported Tuesday (Sept. 22), citing internal company posts and a Meta spokesperson. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Crocs Puts One AI Agent in Charge of Sales and Service
September 22, 2026

A shopper looking for a birthday gift for a nephew opens a chat on Crocs.com, asks for ideas, checks whether a size will fit and wants to know how to return it if it doesn’t. Until this year, that meant bouncing between a product page,...

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SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot Gains Early Traction in AI Agent Push
September 22, 2026

SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot surpassed 400,000 weekly users about a month after its launch, offering an early measure of demand for the company’s push into artificial intelligence agents, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Sept. 22). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Anthropic Cuts AI Processing Costs 40% With Opus 5.5 Debut
September 22, 2026

Anthropic said its new Claude Opus 5.5 represents a “major step up” from Opus 5 and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

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Anthropic Alumni Startup Sees Valuation Jump Fivefold
September 22, 2026

Mirendil, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in talks to raise new funding at a $5 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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OpenAI Hands Banks a Shortcut Around Billion-Dollar Core Rewrites
September 22, 2026

In a bank’s back office, an employee pulls up a customer’s account on a decades-old terminal, reads the balance and types it into a newer web form to finish the file. The two systems don’t talk to each other. The person in the chair is...