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FIS Sees Smarter Payments Powering AI Agents

FIS Sees Smarter Payments Powering AI Agents
FIS Sees Smarter Payments Powering AI Agents
October 01, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Mike Magennis of FIS Fall brings football, starting lineups and plenty of arguments over who deserves the first...

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AI Giants Sign Safety Pact With No Teeth
AI Giants Sign Safety Pact With No Teeth
September 30, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Calls to regulate artificial intelligence have grown louder this year, including from inside the industry. The White House answered Tuesday (Sept. 29) with a pact...

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Relay Raises $36 Million to Turn the Frontline Radio Into an AI Assistant
Relay Raises $36 Million to Turn the Frontline Radio Into an AI Assistant
September 30, 2026  |  Technology

Watch more: Need to Know With Relay’s Chris Chuang In 1940, engineers at Galvin Manufacturing, the company that would become Motorola, built a handheld two-way...

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Banks Rethink Identity Checks as AI Fakes Voices and Faces
Banks Rethink Identity Checks as AI Fakes Voices and Faces
September 30, 2026  |  Identity theft

The next generation of payment fraud doesn’t seem very suspicious. In fact, it already sounds like a familiar customer, types at a perfectly ordinary pace...

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A Half Point Can Reveal the Real Cost of a Debit Upgrade
A Half Point Can Reveal the Real Cost of a Debit Upgrade
September 30, 2026  |  Next-Gen Debit

A debit processor migration can look successful on a project plan and still create problems at the checkout counter. That’s one of the central findings...

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AI’s Payments Breakthrough Will Be Knowing When Not to Pay
AI’s Payments Breakthrough Will Be Knowing When Not to Pay
September 30, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Chris Trainor of Paymentus Giving an artificial intelligence agent a wallet is easy to understand. Giving it permission...

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Anthropic’s IPO Filing Puts a $518 Billion Price Tag on AI Ambition
Anthropic’s IPO Filing Puts a $518 Billion Price Tag on AI Ambition
September 29, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence’s most anticipated initial public offering (IPO) prospectus puts numbers to a company the market has only been able to guess at. Anthropic has...

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Kalshi’s Sports Bets Hit Another Legal Wall
Kalshi’s Sports Bets Hit Another Legal Wall
September 29, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

A federal appeals court has dealt prediction markets another setback, ruling that sports event contracts offered by Kalshi are not federally regulated “swaps” and that...

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