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States Put Big Tech’s AI Advantage Under New Scrutiny
States Put Big Tech’s AI Advantage Under New Scrutiny
August 13, 2026  |  ANTITRUST

Watch more: TechReg With Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti For much of modern antitrust history, the largest competition cases have been defined by Washington. State...

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Debit Is Becoming Gen Z’s Money Management App
Debit Is Becoming Gen Z’s Money Management App
August 13, 2026  |  Next-Gen Debit

Debit cards are a daily financial control panel for many Generation Z consumers, which gives banks a new way to compete for loyalty. The PYMNTS...

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Why AI’s Most Experienced Users Ask Agents Different Questions
Why AI’s Most Experienced Users Ask Agents Different Questions
August 13, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

As consumers become more comfortable with generative artificial intelligence, they begin using it in places where trust carries greater weight. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The...

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22% of Gen Z Consumers Use Credit to Build a Financial Profile
22% of Gen Z Consumers Use Credit to Build a Financial Profile
August 13, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

For younger consumers, credit is increasingly a ladder: 21.7% of Gen Z consumers view credit products as tools for building a credit profile, 17.6 percentage...

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Billtrust CTO Says a 1% AI Error Rate Can Create 100 Problems a Day
Billtrust CTO Says a 1% AI Error Rate Can Create 100 Problems a Day
August 13, 2026  |  Opinion

Clean data, strong governance and meaningful human oversight are essential to agentic AI, Billtrust Chief Technology Officer John Landy writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Building...

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OCC Stablecoin Reporting Proposal Tests Regulatory Alignment
OCC Stablecoin Reporting Proposal Tests Regulatory Alignment
August 12, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Comment letters filed with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency show where implementation of federal stablecoin regulation may require further work, particularly around...

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Food and Housing Costs Keep Consumers in Cutback Mode
Food and Housing Costs Keep Consumers in Cutback Mode
August 12, 2026  |  Economy

Consumers are getting some inflation relief, at least in terms of the slowdown in price increases. They’re just not necessarily getting it on the bills...

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70% of Brazilians Expect to Shop With AI Agents by 2028
70% of Brazilians Expect to Shop With AI Agents by 2028
August 12, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Brazilian shoppers don’t leave their digital habits at the store entrance. They bring their phones into the aisle, compare prices on the spot and check...

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Veriff and Uphold on Verifying Customers for the Life of the Account
Veriff and Uphold on Verifying Customers for the Life of the Account
August 12, 2026  |  Digital Identity

Watch more: Verified Once, Trade Everywhere: Turning KYC Into a Growth Engine Identity verification has a peculiar economics problem: The controls designed to keep the...

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