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Nearly 4 in 10 CFOs See Gen AI Paying Off Within Two Years
Artificial Intelligence // August 14, 2026

CFOs have stopped treating generative artificial intelligence returns as one date circled on the calendar. By December, 39.1% expected very positive returns within one to two years, even as 26.1% expected the payoff to take six years or longer. Get the Full Story Complete the...

AI Just Got Its First 24/7 TV Channel
Artificial Intelligence // August 13, 2026

Fairground AI Creator TV is a channel that runs entirely artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video 24 hours a day, seven days a week, interrupted only by AI-generated commercials. That makes it the first free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel built exclusively from AI content, Fairground Entertainment...

Databricks Raises $5 Billion to Expand Enterprise AI Agent Platform
Investments // August 13, 2026

Data and artificial intelligence (AI) company Databricks raised $5 billion in a strategic funding round at a $190 billion valuation, the firm said in a Thursday (Aug. 13) press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar Built an AI-Native Department. Mid-Market CFOs Can Start Smaller.
Artificial Intelligence // August 13, 2026

Most mid-market CFOs are not going to build OpenAI’s finance stack. They do not have the same engineering resources, access to frontier models or appetite for rebuilding finance workflows from first principles. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Nearly 4 in 10 CFOs See Gen AI Paying Off Within Two Years

August 14, 2026
CFOs have stopped treating generative artificial intelligence returns as one date circled on the calendar. By December, 39.1% expected very positive returns within one to two years, even as 26.1% expected the payoff to take six years or longer. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access […]

How AI Agents Are Automating Expense Reports and Saving Travelers Time

August 10, 2026
The expense report has survived every wave of enterprise software modernization. ERPs automated procurement. AP platforms automated invoicing. But the expense report, with its chased receipts, manual GL codes and...

Quantifind Raises $200 Million to Find the Fraudster in the Financial Chain

August 05, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Quantifind’s Ari Tuchman Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Healthcare AI Rules Shift Risk From Regulators to Hospitals

August 04, 2026
Watch more: TechReg Talks With Douglas Grimm of ArentFox Schiff and Doug McCormack of Acumen Partners  Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Quick Reads
OpenAI’s Revenue Run Rate Tops $40 Billion as IPO Nears

August 14, 2026
OpenAI is now on pace to bring in annualized revenue of more than $40 billion, roughly double its run rate from the end of 2025. The jump gives the ChatGPT maker fresh momentum as it prepares to go public. For the banking, payments and fintech firms watching how AI vendors turn usage into money, the […]

AI Just Got Its First 24/7 TV Channel

August 13, 2026
Fairground AI Creator TV is a channel that runs entirely artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video 24 hours a day, seven days a week, interrupted only by AI-generated commercials. That makes it...

Databricks Raises $5 Billion to Expand Enterprise AI Agent Platform

August 13, 2026
Data and artificial intelligence (AI) company Databricks raised $5 billion in a strategic funding round at a $190 billion valuation, the firm said in a Thursday (Aug. 13) press release. Get the Full Story...

Microsoft Unifies Consumer and Enterprise Copilot in Push for Single Platform

August 13, 2026
Microsoft has begun combining its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single product, starting a gradual transition that will culminate in a super app the company has been building...