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Payments Innovation
Tokenization Moves From Security Tool to Checkout Strategy
June 16, 2026

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Chatbots
60% of Healthcare Firms Turn to AI Chatbots Before Further Automation
June 16, 2026

Healthcare’s first big use of enterprise artificial intelligence is not a moonshot. It is a pressure valve. 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...

Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity Experts Ask Feds to Lift Restrictions on Mythos
June 15, 2026

More than 120 cybersecurity and other tech professionals have signed an open letter asking the federal government to lift the export control directives on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos large language models and commit to a new process for assessing artificial intelligence (AI) risk. Get the Full Story Complete...

Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Faces Shareholder Lawsuit Over Alleged AI Spending Cover-Up
June 15, 2026

Microsoft shareholders sued the company Friday (June 12), alleging that it defrauded them and inflated its stock price by concealing slower growth in its Azure cloud business and a need to invest billions of dollars in artificial intelligence infrastructure, Reuters reported Monday (June 15). Get...

Payments Innovation
Stablecoins Give Micropayments a Second Shot
June 15, 2026

Micropayments are arguably, and so far, among the digital realm’s great unrealized opportunities. 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....

Investments
Arcade Books $60 Million in Funding to Keep AI Agents Accountable
June 15, 2026

Arcade.dev raised $60 million in a Series A funding round to grow its secure action layer for production artificial intelligence agents, designed to prove which agent took which action, on behalf of which user. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Loyalty & Rewards
Rain Debuts Native Loyalty for Stablecoin Card Programs
June 15, 2026

Stablecoin payments infrastructure company Rain introduced a new loyalty capability called Rewards, according to a Monday (June 15) press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia Aims to Raise $20 Billion to Continue AI Chip Production
June 15, 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) chipmaker Nvidia is reportedly planning to raise $20 billion through a U.S. bond issuance. 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...

Investments
Interchecks Raises $50 Million to Expand Real-Time Funding Use Cases
June 15, 2026

Interchecks raised $50 million in a Series C funding round to expand its instant payments infrastructure that serves sportsbooks, FinTechs and financial institutions. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...