Retail
Amazon and Walmart Want to Beat the Consumer to Their Next Purchase
August 06, 2026

Amazon’s $3 trillion valuation, achieved this week, is being treated as an artificial intelligence and cloud computing milestone. For retail leaders, it should be read as a broader signal that investors value the infrastructure surrounding commerce as much as the sale itself. Get the Full...

Artificial Intelligence
ElevenLabs Lets Brands Rent History’s Most Famous Voices
August 06, 2026

Thomas Edison never recorded an advertisement. Mark Twain never narrated an audiobook. Amelia Earhart never fronted an airline campaign. All three can now be hired to do exactly that through ElevenLabs’ Iconic Marketplace, a licensing platform connecting brands with the rights holders of history’s most...

Artificial Intelligence
Ninth Circuit Narrows CFAA Reach in Perplexity Agentic Commerce Ruling
August 06, 2026

A federal appeals court has handed the artificial intelligence (AI) industry a potentially significant early victory in the development of the law regarding agentic commerce. In a unanimous opinion issued Tuesday (Aug. 4), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated a preliminary...

Earnings
Healthcare Coverage Struggles to Keep Up With Modern Work
August 06, 2026

The latest earnings from Oscar Health and GoodRx show both companies dealing with a changing customer base. 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....

Artificial Intelligence
Apollo Global Management Targets More AI Infrastructure Deals
August 06, 2026

Apollo Global Management named a new leader to head artificial intelligence-related deals, The Information reported Wednesday (Aug. 5). 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...

Earnings
Expedia Builds Beyond Its Website as AI Changes Travel Search
August 06, 2026

Expedia Group entered the summer travel season with more than just strong demand, according to its recent earnings call. The company used its second-quarter results to argue that its strategy of pairing artificial intelligence (AI) investments with a fast-growing B2B business is giving it multiple...

Earnings
Etsy Uses AI to Fix Its Discovery Problem
August 06, 2026

Etsy CEO Kruti Patel Goyal said during a second-quarter earnings call Thursday (Aug. 6) that the company is applying artificial intelligence in three distinct ways: making Etsy more personal, making Etsy more discoverable, and learning how the next generation of shopping will work through native...

Artificial Intelligence
Meta Model’s Hack Mirrors Previous OpenAI and Anthropic Security Breaches
August 06, 2026

A Meta artificial intelligence (AI) model hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, in an incident similar to earlier ones that happened at Anthropic and OpenAI, Reuters reported Wednesday (Aug. 5). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Banking
Nayax Aims to Transition From Payments Platform to Bank
August 06, 2026

Payments solutions platform Nayax is the latest FinTech seeking an American banking charter. 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...