Ai news and trends

Cloudflare Reports Millions of Exploit Attempts After PHP Flaws Disclosed

October 22, 2026
cyberattacks, hackers, cybersecurity
Banks Crack Down on Unauthorized AI Agents Operating Inside Customer Accounts
Banking // October 22, 2026

Major U.S. banks are detecting and deleting unauthorized third-party artificial intelligence agents that are taking actions inside customer accounts, Reuters reported Thursday (Oct. 22), citing a paywalled article by Axios. Some of the agents the banks have detected appear to have tried to take actions that...

What Fraud Data Says About Where Payment Security Is Headed
Fraud Prevention // October 22, 2026

Artificial intelligence is changing both sides of payments fraud. Fraudsters can use it to make impersonation attempts more convincing, while finance teams can use it to score transactions, verify documents and identify anomalies. PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Prevention First: Building a Smarter Defense Against Payments Fraud,” produced...

Governments and Organizations Take Sites Offline to Patch Web Vulnerability
Cybersecurity // October 21, 2026

Many websites around the world were taken down as a precaution or for preventative maintenance Wednesday (Oct. 21) as organizations responded to the disclosure of a widespread web vulnerability, according to multiple media reports. As PYMNTS reported Wednesday, OpenAI characterized the critical vulnerabilities in PHP,...

Anthropic’s New AI Agent Purchases Business Supplies
Artificial Intelligence // October 21, 2026

Anthropic has unveiled an app in which Claude works as a “proactive agent” on behalf of professionals and small business owners, including purchasing business supplies, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) announcement. In this app, Claude Duet, Claude comes to the user when...

Interviews & Exclusives
What Fraud Data Says About Where Payment Security Is Headed

October 22, 2026
Artificial intelligence is changing both sides of payments fraud. Fraudsters can use it to make impersonation attempts more convincing, while finance teams can use it to score transactions, verify documents and identify anomalies. PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Prevention First: Building a Smarter Defense Against Payments Fraud,” produced in collaboration with Bottomline, surveyed 150 U.S. treasury and finance […]

AI Agents Could Fill Treasury’s Looming Talent Gap

October 19, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Fifth Third Bank’s Katherine Weislogel There’s a workforce problem brewing in corporate treasury departments, and it has little to do with finding the next generation...

AI Agents Are Going to Work at City Hall

October 19, 2026
Government services have always moved slowly. Long queues, paper forms and manual reviews define an experience most citizens dread. Tighter budgets and shrinking workforces are making that model harder to...

UPS Capital Uses AI to Stop Holiday Delivery Disasters

October 16, 2026
Watch more: Digital Shift with UPS Capital’s Ashley Hillman One of the most stressful situations for holiday shoppers is opening the door to find nothing there after a tracking page...

Quick Reads
Cloudflare Reports Millions of Exploit Attempts After PHP Flaws Disclosed

October 22, 2026
Cloudflare reported millions of attempts to exploit newly disclosed vulnerabilities in PHP, or Hypertext Preprocessor, as companies and governments raced to secure websites and online services built on the widely used programming language. Cloudflare Chief Executive Matthew Prince described the rapid escalation in a post on X late Wednesday (Oct. 21), according to Reuters. The […]

Banks Crack Down on Unauthorized AI Agents Operating Inside Customer Accounts

October 22, 2026
Major U.S. banks are detecting and deleting unauthorized third-party artificial intelligence agents that are taking actions inside customer accounts, Reuters reported Thursday (Oct. 22), citing a paywalled article by Axios. Some...

Governments and Organizations Take Sites Offline to Patch Web Vulnerability

October 21, 2026
Many websites around the world were taken down as a precaution or for preventative maintenance Wednesday (Oct. 21) as organizations responded to the disclosure of a widespread web vulnerability, according...

Anthropic’s New AI Agent Purchases Business Supplies

October 21, 2026
Anthropic has unveiled an app in which Claude works as a “proactive agent” on behalf of professionals and small business owners, including purchasing business supplies, the company said in a...