Demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, business equipment and transportation equipment drove an increase in durable goods orders in September, according to data released Tuesday (Oct. 27) by the Census Bureau. New orders for nondefense capital goods, excluding aircraft, increased by 0.5% in September, according to...
Meta has turned to Nvidia for help in expanding its Muse family of AI models. The collaboration will focus on improving inference and training performance amid rising demand for “useful” AI agents, Nvidia said in a Monday (Oct. 26) news release. “AI agents represent a...
PayPal is preparing for artificial intelligence-driven purchases while working to accelerate checkout growth. “If you think about consumer agents buying from merchant agents, both will have to validate that this is a real consumer who can pay and a real merchant that has the product,”...
Intuit introduced new and expanded financial intelligence tools designed for the nonprofit, manufacturing and construction sectors, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 27) press release. Intuit added these industry-specific, artificial intelligence-native capabilities to Intuit Enterprise Suite and QuickBooks Online Advanced, according to the release....
October 27, 2026
Fraud attacks can now be assembled with commercially packaged software, distributed across accounts and devices, and altered faster than banks can rewrite a conventional fraud rule. “We’re seeing fraudsters leverage commoditized SaaS toolkits sold on dark web marketplaces to orchestrate scams, card testing attacks and synthetic identity fraud at industry scale,” AWS Head of Payment […]
October 27, 2026
Artificial intelligence is creating a new competitive question for small businesses. What happens when revenue can grow without payroll growing alongside it? The PYMNTS Intelligence report “New Data Shows Small...
October 26, 2026
This week The Prompt Economy focuses on healthcare. It’s here that agentic AI is affecting payments, research, care protocols and the patient experience. It’s early days, but as you will...
October 23, 2026
The credit score has a strange blind spot. It knows a lot about the borrower and almost nothing about what the borrower is about to buy. And as latest installment...
October 27, 2026
Apple has debuted its 14-inch MacBook Pro along with an iMac powered by its newest M6 chip. The new computer is designed to provide “25% faster AI workloads” versus devices powered by the M5 chip, Apple said in its announcement Tuesday (Oct. 27). “The 14-inch MacBook Pro is the pro laptop of choice for a […]
October 27, 2026
Demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, business equipment and transportation equipment drove an increase in durable goods orders in September, according to data released Tuesday (Oct. 27) by the Census Bureau....
October 27, 2026
Meta has turned to Nvidia for help in expanding its Muse family of AI models. The collaboration will focus on improving inference and training performance amid rising demand for “useful”...
October 27, 2026
Intuit introduced new and expanded financial intelligence tools designed for the nonprofit, manufacturing and construction sectors, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 27) press release. Intuit added these industry-specific,...
