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AI-Powered Surveillance Pricing Facing Bans in 26 States
May 14, 2026

A number of states have moved to ban so-called “surveillance pricing” amid pushback from consumers and advocacy groups. 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...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Launches Claude AI Agents for Small Business Finance
May 14, 2026

A Manhattan marketing agency founder stopped spending hours each week generating invoices and chasing payments. A coffee roaster’s COO found operational problems he didn’t know existed. Neither hired anyone new. They plugged in an artificial intelligence agent. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Banking
Banks Use Payout Moments to Build New Customer Relationships
May 14, 2026

Payouts don’t have to be a one-time transaction. They can be the beginning of a bank’s relationship with a new customer, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Banking Both Sides: Instant Payouts Turn Receivers Into Customers.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Artificial Intelligence
AI Needs Customers More Than Chips 
May 14, 2026

The artificial intelligence (AI) story has been framed as a provider arms race. Nvidia earnings became macroeconomic events, data centers turned into strategic assets, and partnerships among cloud providers, chipmakers and frontier-model companies came to define the industry’s center of gravity. Get the Full Story...

Artificial Intelligence
Albertsons Builds AI That Grades Produce Before It Ships
May 14, 2026

Albertsons wants to know whether a grape is bad before it ever reaches a store shelf. 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...

Artificial Intelligence
Consumers Are Learning to Trust AI Through Shopping
May 14, 2026

Product link discovery has the highest adoption rate of any personal artificial intelligence (AI) task measured in a new PYMNTS Intelligence study, and it’s the only one that’s both already widespread and still growing. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Banking
Revolut Mulls Private Banking as Trading Business Expands
May 14, 2026

Revolut has received regulatory permission to expand the scope of its trading business. 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...

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AI Shopping Agents Put New Pressure on Payments Companies
May 14, 2026

Delegation is the name of the game for the next phase of digital commerce. 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...

Artificial Intelligence
xAI Pursues Finance Sector Growth Before SpaceX IPO
May 13, 2026

Elon Musk’s xAI is focusing on the finance sector as it works to boost its revenue ahead of the initial public offering (IPO) of its parent company, SpaceX, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (May 13), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...