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Artificial Intelligence
Companies Can Delegate to AI Agents but Can’t Delegate Accountability
September 15, 2026

Watch more: Digital Shift With Amir Wain of i2c Companies have embraced generative artificial intelligence, examining where software could help employees. The truly agentic enterprise must examine what happens when the software can do the work itself. An agent can take information from one part...

Artificial Intelligence
AI Makes the Holiday Shopping List but Who Gets the Sale?
September 15, 2026

AI can find the sweater, compare prices and read hundreds of reviews before a shopper finishes a cup of coffee. Getting that sweater through checkout is where the trip gets complicated. “Will the 2026 Shopping Season Go Agentic?,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report, examines who could...

Mobile Commerce
Apple Bets on Siri AI to Win the Personal Assistant War
September 14, 2026

Apple released its artificial intelligence-powered Siri AI on Monday (Sept. 14), saying in a press release that the assistant is now more capable with personal context understanding, world knowledge, onscreen awareness and more systemwide app actions. Apple began rolling out Siri AI in beta in...

Payments Innovation
Paymentus Scales Bill Payment Platform Across Additional Sectors
September 14, 2026

Paymentus executives emphasized the company’s position as a specialized technology provider navigating bill payment modernization, agentic artificial intelligence and expansion into additional verticals during the Goldman Sachs 2026 Communacopia + Technology conference. Paymentus CEO Dushyant Sharma framed bill presentment and payment processing as a technology...

Payment Methods
Mastercard CFO Outlines Growth Strategy Driven by Stablecoins and Value-Added Services
September 14, 2026

Incoming Mastercard Chief Financial Officer Ling Hai, who assumed that role Aug. 3, outlined a growth-focused capital allocation strategy that includes frontline sales, targeted acquisition and infrastructure expansion Thursday (Sept. 10) during the Goldman Sachs 2026 Communacopia + Technology conference. Emphasizing Mastercard’s posture as a...

Artificial Intelligence
Euno Raises $23 Million to Give AI Agents Corporate Memory
September 14, 2026

Companies have spent years investing in becoming data-driven, accumulating sales, marketing, financial and product information across an expanding collection of systems. The harder problem now is getting artificial intelligence to make sense of those systems together. Euno, an enterprise AI context platform built for that...

Acquiring
Payments Firms Put Georgia’s Limited Purpose Bank Charter to Work
September 14, 2026

Bank sponsorship has been a staple of merchant acquiring in the United States. A payments company can provide the technology, process the transaction and manage the merchant relationship, while relying on a bank member of the card networks for the access needed to acquire Visa...

Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Accelerates Device Plan With AI Camera Tech Acquisition
September 14, 2026

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup founded by former Apple employees that is developing artificial intelligence-enhanced cameras for smartphones, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday (Sept. 14), citing unnamed sources. Glass Imaging is working on AI technology that enables smartphone cameras to produce image...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Deploys Claude to Automate Financial Adviser Prep Work
September 14, 2026

Anthropic released a suite of connectors and workflow skills designed to enable financial advisers to save time on prep and paperwork so they can spend more time with clients, the company said in a Monday (Sept. 14) blog post. The new Claude for Financial Advisors...