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AI Finds Its Best Customer on Main Street
artificial intelligence // April 20, 2026

Main Street businesses run lean and demand results. There’s no budget for experimentation and no appetite for tools that don’t pay off fast. Every automation must drive revenue, cut costs or save time. That makes Main Street artificial intelligence’s most demanding customer — and its...

Coinbase Opens Services Marketplace for Agentic Commerce
Markets // April 20, 2026

Coinbase has launched a marketplace designed to help developers and artificial intelligence (AI) agents discover, compare and integrate tools for autonomous commerce enabled by the x402 protocol. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Enterprise AI Goes Vertical and Investors Follow Fast
Investments // April 20, 2026

Breadth was the safest bet in enterprise artificial intelligence (AI): Build a platform and let the market find you. That model still raises money. But the largest checks this week went to companies that went the other way, picking one industry and rebuilding its workflows...

Adobe Launches AI Agents to Automate Marketing Workflows
artificial intelligence // April 20, 2026

Adobe is enhancing its range of marketing solutions with an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) system, an AI-powered coworker and expanded collaborations with AI platforms. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Interviews & Exclusives
How Visa Is Rewiring Bank Infrastructure for the AI Era

April 20, 2026
Watch more: The Edit With Visa’s Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree to receive marketing communications from PYMNTS and to the […]

The Real AI Edge in Payments Comes From Better Judgment

April 20, 2026
AI speed without oversight can create risk or missed opportunities, Maverick Payments VP of Product Justin Downey writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “AI Runs Payments. Governance Decides What Happens...

In the Age of Agentic AI, Data Control Is Power

April 20, 2026
As companies rush to deploy agentic AI, a new consensus is taking shape around the data problem underneath the hype. More autonomous AI systems will raise the stakes for how...

Payments Leaders Need AI Controls They Can Explain in 24 Hours

April 17, 2026
Slower initial deployment of AI is less costly than a scaled failure, Flagright Co-founder and CEO Baran Ozkan writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “AI Runs Payments. Governance Decides What Happens...

Quick Reads
Coinbase Opens Services Marketplace for Agentic Commerce

April 20, 2026
Coinbase has launched a marketplace designed to help developers and artificial intelligence (AI) agents discover, compare and integrate tools for autonomous commerce enabled by the x402 protocol. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily […]

Adobe Launches AI Agents to Automate Marketing Workflows

April 20, 2026
Adobe is enhancing its range of marketing solutions with an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) system, an AI-powered coworker and expanded collaborations with AI platforms. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Verizon’s Dan Schulman Tells CEOs to Be Open About AI Job Cuts

April 19, 2026
Verizon’s CEO wants his contemporaries to be open about artificial intelligence-related job losses. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

Venture Capital Gravitates to Crypto-AI Combo Projects

April 19, 2026
Venture investors are favoring artificial intelligence/cryptocurrency projects over pure crypto firms. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...