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AI Agents Could Control 5% of Cross-Border Payments. Who Controls Them?
AI Agents Could Control 5% of Cross-Border Payments. Who Controls Them?
November 03, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Watch more: Need to Know With Mural’s Sinclair Toffa As stablecoins, real-time payment networks and artificial intelligence converge, financial infrastructure providers are confronting the fact...

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MIT Researchers Say Privacy Rules Will Shape AI Competition
MIT Researchers Say Privacy Rules Will Shape AI Competition
November 03, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: TechReg With Catherine Tucker and Rozhina Ghanavi of MIT Sloan An artificial intelligence agent researching a medical condition can learn something about an...

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Economic Optimism Gains 3.8 Percentage Points as Shoppers Stay Selective
Economic Optimism Gains 3.8 Percentage Points as Shoppers Stay Selective
November 03, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

More Americans see better economic days ahead, giving merchants an opening to win purchases that cautious households have put off. That’s one encouraging finding in...

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Connecting AI Visits to Sales Could Sharpen Retail Investment
Connecting AI Visits to Sales Could Sharpen Retail Investment
November 03, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A retailer’s next artificial intelligence investment could depend on what happens after a shopper arrives. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Agent Advantage: How Merchants Plan...

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Boost CEO Says AI Lets Payments Firms Build More In-House
Boost CEO Says AI Lets Payments Firms Build More In-House
November 03, 2026  |  Opinion

AI has expanded what teams can develop internally without a third party, Boost Payment Solutions Founder and CEO Dean M. Leavitt writes in a new PYMNTS...

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Klarna Powers Enhanced Dispute Management for Mollie Merchants Across Europe
Klarna Powers Enhanced Dispute Management for Mollie Merchants Across Europe
November 03, 2026  |  Partnerships

Klarna‘s enhanced dispute management and Consumer FX capabilities will be available to merchants across Europe that work with Mollie, the companies said in a Tuesday...

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Apple Forecasts Slower Services Growth as AI Costs Rise
Apple Forecasts Slower Services Growth as AI Costs Rise
November 02, 2026  |  Earnings

Apple expects slower services growth during the holiday quarter, at the same time that it absorbs the cloud-computing costs of Siri AI and prepares to...

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Anthropic Buys One-Person Biotech to Prove Claude Can Make Drugs
Anthropic Buys One-Person Biotech to Prove Claude Can Make Drugs
November 02, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic said Oct. 27 it acquired Mithril Medicine, a startup developing treatments for two rare forms of muscular dystrophy. Founder Cody Tranbarger, Mithril’s only full-time...

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Upwork Embeds Freelance Marketplace Inside Top AI Tools
Upwork Embeds Freelance Marketplace Inside Top AI Tools
November 02, 2026  |  Earnings

Upwork has been rolling out new tools as artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes work and the ways clients and talent use the company’s work marketplace, President...

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