Amazon’s $3 trillion valuation, achieved this week, is being treated as an artificial intelligence and cloud computing milestone. For retail leaders, it should be read as a broader signal that investors value the infrastructure surrounding commerce as much as the sale itself. Get the Full...
Apollo Global Management named a new leader to head artificial intelligence-related deals, The Information reported Wednesday (Aug. 5). 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...
Etsy CEO Kruti Patel Goyal said during a second-quarter earnings call Thursday (Aug. 6) that the company is applying artificial intelligence in three distinct ways: making Etsy more personal, making Etsy more discoverable, and learning how the next generation of shopping will work through native...
A coalition of civil rights, labor, consumer advocacy and technology accountability organizations is urging the U.S. Senate to remove provisions establishing federal AI regulatory sandboxes from the proposed CLARITY Act. The request opens a new front in the debate over how lawmakers should govern artificial...
August 06, 2026
There are as many different business workflows as there are businesses. So why have most businesses been viewing AI as something monolithic? 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 […]
August 06, 2026
The agentic enterprise will be built through deliberate decisions about where to trust agents, FIS Head of Product Management, Payment Networks Mladen Vladic writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Building...
August 05, 2026
American shoppers aren’t waiting for retail to catch up. They’re already using mobile devices and AI to find products, compare choices and decide where to spend. Their shopping habits are...
August 05, 2026
The organizations scaling agentic AI successfully are building guardrails before they need them, i2c CEO Amir Wain writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Building the Agent-Ready Payments Enterprise.” Get the...
August 06, 2026
DeepSeek has resumed its second funding round and is looking to raise close to $8 billion, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 6), citing unnamed sources. 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 […]
August 05, 2026
Google is in talks with artificial intelligence coding agent startup Mechanize to hire some of Mechanize’s talent and sign a non-exclusive licensing agreement for the company’s technology, Business Insider reported...
August 05, 2026
Longtime Google AI expert Jeff Dean is reportedly leaving to start his own company. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
August 05, 2026
Grocery conglomerate Albertsons says customers at its Safeway stores can now shop using OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
