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Artificial Intelligence
Cognition to Acquire Windsurf After Google Poaches Founders and Researchers
July 14, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) software engineer provider Cognition is acquiring AI code generation startup Windsurf, the companies said Monday (July 14) in separate blog posts. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Banking
Community Banks Lead Fundraising for Texas Flood Recovery Efforts
July 14, 2025

Community banks in Texas made, matched and facilitated donations to help victims during the ongoing flooding that began in the state on July 4. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

Wearables
ByteDance Reportedly Follows Meta Into the Mixed Reality Realm
July 14, 2025

TikTok parent ByteDance is reportedly developing a mixed reality device resembling goggles. 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...

Artificial Intelligence
Philips Taps AI to Manage Unwieldy, Outdated Image Library
July 14, 2025

Every company’s marketing department has thousands of photos that teams must sort through to find matches for advertising campaigns. Doing so manually would typically take days or even weeks. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

IPO
Digital Asset-Focused Investment Platform Grayscale Prepares to Go Public
July 14, 2025

Grayscale Investments, a digital asset-focused investment platform, plans to go public. 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...

Banking
Small Lenders Face Tariff-Related Turmoil While Big Banks Thrive
July 14, 2025

It’s not a great time to be a smaller bank in the U.S. 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....

Banking
JPMorgan Opens Door for Open Banking Data ‘Tariffs’ and Upends Aggregators
July 14, 2025

In his 2024 annual letter to shareholders, released April 7, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon wrote that “a new battle is brewing. Third parties want full access to banks’ customer data so they can exploit it for their own purposes and profits.” Get the Full Story...

Artificial Intelligence
Skyfire Agents Mimic Humans to Shop, Sign Up and Pay Alone
July 14, 2025

Skyfire has launched Agent Checkout, a new protocol that gives artificial intelligence (AI) agents the power to navigate the digital economy on their own — including signing up for accounts, logging in and paying, without human help. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Artificial Intelligence
AI Copyright Battles Continue Despite Meta, Anthropic Wins, Experts Say
July 14, 2025

Creative professionals reeling from the dual court victories of Anthropic and Meta over the use of copyrighted content for model training can take comfort: The fight isn’t over, according to legal experts. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...