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Amazon Wants Alexa to Look Inside the Fridge and Fill the Cart
August 13, 2026

Amazon’s latest Alexa demonstration looked almost trivial: photograph a refrigerator, ask what groceries are missing, and let artificial intelligence assemble the shopping list. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

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AI Just Made Retail’s Long Tail Pay Off
August 13, 2026

For two decades, retail discovery has rewarded whatever already sold. A product with more buyers gets more visibility, more visibility brings more buyers, and the cycle repeats. Popular items get more popular while everything else stays buried. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Artificial Intelligence
DeepSeek Introduces Peak-Hour Pricing That Quadruples Current Levels
August 13, 2026

DeepSeek is adding peak-hour pricing for its flagship V4 models that will quadruple the current levels, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13). 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...

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CodeRabbit Raises $143 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation to Govern AI-Generated Code
August 13, 2026

Inside engineering organizations, the sequence of software development is changing. Developers, product managers, background agents and connected systems can now generate code or open pull requests continuously, meaning code can exist before a team has established alignment or determined whether the work should ship. That...

Artificial Intelligence
One Dog’s Cancer Vaccine Just Became a Real Company
August 13, 2026

The story went viral in March: a Sydney tech entrepreneur used ChatGPT and computational genomics to help design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his dying dog, and several of her tumors shrank. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Anthropic Pursues $6 Billion Decart Deal to Cut AI Costs
August 13, 2026

Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart AI, a startup that makes chips work more efficiently to reduce the cost of training and operating artificial intelligence, for $6 billion, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Amex Expands Virtual Travel Cards to Contractors and Guests
August 13, 2026

American Express is expanding the availability of virtual cards for businesses, as more companies use digital payments to manage expenses and reduce fraud. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

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FinTechs Muscle Into Banks’ Trade Finance Turf
August 13, 2026

Trade finance is stuck in a paradox. The world has plenty of goods to trade, but financing them safely keeps getting harder. That gap is now FinTechs’ opening to challenge banks. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Artificial Intelligence
White House AI Testing Shift Could Put Open Models Back in the Risk File
August 13, 2026

The White House is reportedly preparing to bring powerful open-weight AI models into its voluntary pre-release cybersecurity testing framework, a move that could narrow a gap that had started to matter for banks, payment firms and merchants choosing among artificial intelligence vendors. Get the Full Story Complete...