Artificial Intelligence

PYMNTS covers artificial intelligence as it transforms payments, commerce and financial services, from generative AI and agentic commerce to fraud detection, underwriting and customer engagement. Our reporting pairs breaking news with proprietary data and expert analysis to examine how AI is reshaping business models, operational efficiency and competitive dynamics across the connected economy.
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Physical AI’s Biggest Market Is 280,000 Aging US Factories
September 15, 2026

The physical AI boom is easy to picture as a new factory filled with humanoid robots and autonomous machines. The bigger opportunity may be much less futuristic. It’s making factories built decades ago smarter without replacing the equipment already inside them. Get the Full Story...

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Agentic Payments Are Growing, but Most x402 Payments Aren’t From AI Agents
September 15, 2026

The emerging infrastructure for autonomous artificial intelligence agents to spend money online may be developing faster than the agents themselves. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

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Why CFOs Should Look to Healthcare for Agentic B2B’s Permission Layer
September 15, 2026

Payments companies already know how to authenticate machines. API keys, tokens, certificates and digital credentials can establish that a request came from an authorized system. But identifying a machine like an artificial intelligence agent does not answer the more economically important question: What is it allowed to...

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

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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. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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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...

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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. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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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. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Pinterest Boosts AI-Powered Search Speed Sevenfold With Nvidia Tech
September 14, 2026

Pinterest has built a new multimodal artificial intelligence infrastructure that will support the next generation of visual and conversational experiences across the company’s platform, the company said in a Monday (Sept. 14) press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...