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WEX Teams With Euclid to Bring Agentic AI to Trucking
Partnerships // October 27, 2026

Payments solutions provider WEX teamed with Euclid AI, a provider of agentic artificial intelligence solutions for the trucking industry, according to a Tuesday (Oct 27) press release. The collaboration is designed to bring AI agents to WEX’s over-the-road (OTR) customers to help them save time...

Apple Touts AI Capabilities in New 14-Inch MacBook Pro
Technology // 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...

AI Infrastructure Spending Extends Core Capital Goods Growth in September
Artificial Intelligence // 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. New orders for nondefense capital goods, excluding aircraft, increased by 0.5% in September, according to...

Meta and Nvidia Team on Better Muse Agents
News // 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” AI agents, Nvidia said in a Monday (Oct. 26) news release. “AI agents represent a...

Interviews & Exclusives
Block’s Dessa Fixes the Conversation, Not the Checkout

October 27, 2026
Voice commerce has faced the same obstacles for a decade, including turning spoken requests into accurate orders, verifying customer identity and completing payments without delays. In 2016, PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster wrote about the potential of voice-enabled payments through Amazon’s Alexa. What Alexa could not yet prove was that the device knew who was talking […]

Fraudsters Leave Patterns, and AWS Wants AI to Follow Them

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...

AI Breaks the Traditional Relationship Between Business Growth and Hiring

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...

AI Agents Take on Healthcare’s Paperwork So Doctors Can Focus on Patients

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...

Quick Reads
WEX Teams With Euclid to Bring Agentic AI to Trucking

October 27, 2026
Payments solutions provider WEX teamed with Euclid AI, a provider of agentic artificial intelligence solutions for the trucking industry, according to a Tuesday (Oct 27) press release. The collaboration is designed to bring AI agents to WEX’s over-the-road (OTR) customers to help them save time and money, the release said. “Our customers are looking for […]

Apple Touts AI Capabilities in New 14-Inch MacBook Pro

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...

AI Infrastructure Spending Extends Core Capital Goods Growth in September

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....

Meta and Nvidia Team on Better Muse Agents

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”...