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OpenAI Preps Fourth-Quarter IPO and Builds Out Finance Team

OpenAI Preps Fourth-Quarter IPO and Builds Out Finance Team
OpenAI Preps Fourth-Quarter IPO and Builds Out Finance Team
January 30, 2026  |  IPO

OpenAI is accelerating plans for a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter, positioning the ChatGPT maker for a high-profile debut just...

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Digital Wallet Use Still Lags in the Physical Store
Digital Wallet Use Still Lags in the Physical Store
January 30, 2026  |  Payment Methods

Online shopping has stopped being a young person’s game, and the data now points to a broader shift: where consumers shop is increasingly tied to...

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Why Fraud Doesn’t Look Like Fraud to a Data Scientist
Why Fraud Doesn’t Look Like Fraud to a Data Scientist
January 30, 2026  |  Security & Fraud

Watch more: Visa Protect Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Digital Payments Reshape Insurance Competition
Digital Payments Reshape Insurance Competition
January 30, 2026  |  Opinion

Succeeding in insurance payments requires building scalable ecosystems, One Inc CEO Ian Drysdale writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off.”...

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Visa Credentials Soar as Payments Hyperscaler Eyes Agentic Commerce
Visa Credentials Soar as Payments Hyperscaler Eyes Agentic Commerce
January 29, 2026  |  Earnings

Visa entered fiscal 2026 with ample evidence that credentials, and not just cards, now anchor its global payments architecture. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Apple Signals AI Will Power Payments Security and Growth
Apple Signals AI Will Power Payments Security and Growth
January 29, 2026  |  Earnings

Apple just turned in what CEO Tim Cook called “a quarter for the record books” Thursday (Jan. 29) and the headline numbers back him up....

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Saks Global to Shutter Majority of off-Price Stores in Shift to Luxury Focus
Saks Global to Shutter Majority of off-Price Stores in Shift to Luxury Focus
January 29, 2026  |  Retail

Saks Global will wind down the majority of its off-price operations, including most Saks OFF 5TH locations and all Neiman Marcus Last Call stores, Reuters...

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Google DeepMind Introduces Project Genie for Interactive AI World Building
Google DeepMind Introduces Project Genie for Interactive AI World Building
January 29, 2026  |  Google

Google DeepMind has introduced Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that uses its latest world-model artificial intelligence (AI) to generate and explore interactive virtual environments,...

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Senate Crypto Bill Finds Common Ground on Data Standards
Senate Crypto Bill Finds Common Ground on Data Standards
January 29, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

U.S. federal regulators are no longer circling the crypto question. They are building the machinery to answer it. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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