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Artificial Intelligence
Cloudflare Blocks AI Agents From Ad-Supported Pages
September 17, 2026

Cloudflare has started blocking artificial intelligence agents by default on pages that carry ads, putting the tools consumers use to compare products in direct conflict with the sites those tools need to read. The new preset for ad-supported domains allows search crawlers, refuses AI training...

Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Urges Industry and Government Partnership on AI Safeguards
September 17, 2026

Amazon said artificial intelligence labs should ensure models are safe and fully tested before releasing them but did not call for the industry to slow down, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 17). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Payments Innovation
Bottomline Connects Payment Rails and Blockchains in One Platform
September 17, 2026

Business payments firm Bottomline introduced a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to improve payment messaging, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

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Revolut Chief Says FinTech Could Go Public in NY and London
September 17, 2026

Revolut’s co-founder and CEO says the FinTech is considering a dual London and New York stock market listing. 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...

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OpenAI and Anthropic Revenues Dwarf Those of Chinese AI Models
September 17, 2026

Robust adoption of China’s artificial intelligence models has yet to yield corresponding revenues, according to a report published Thursday (Sept. 17) by research firm Rhodium Group. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Retail
Senators Demand Probe Into Amazon and Walmart AI Over Made in USA Claims
September 17, 2026

Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate how Amazon and Walmart handle “Made in America” goods and claims on their website and apps, Baldwin said in a Thursday (Sept. 17) press release. Get the Full...

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Amazon Builds Its Own Answer to Walmart’s 5,000 Stores
September 17, 2026

Amazon needs more than faster warehouses to close Walmart’s delivery advantage. It may need to build and manufacture its own version of a neighborhood store network. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Artificial Intelligence
Experts Say Potential Frontier AI Slowdown Won’t Slow Adoption
September 17, 2026

The people who build frontier artificial intelligence say it is getting away from them. The people who study it, deploy it and defend against it mostly agree. They just don’t think a slower frontier is the fix. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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St. Luke’s Turns 400,000 Patient Interactions Into an Agentic AI Use Case
September 17, 2026

For St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, the case for agentic artificial intelligence started with a simple operational challenge: hundreds of thousands of patient interactions required thousands of hours of human labor every month. The solution put AI agents in the middle of those...