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Lawmakers Urge Google and Spirit Airlines to Pause Data Sale

October 08, 2026
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EMVCo Takes On Proof of Permission for AI Payments
Artificial Intelligence // October 02, 2026

Artificial intelligence agents add information to a card payment that merchants, issuers and networks don’t routinely exchange today: what the consumer authorized the agent to do and whether the transaction falls within that authority. EMVCo is developing a technical framework for carrying that information through...

St. Louis Fed Adapts FRED Database for AI Agents
Artificial Intelligence // October 01, 2026

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) has introduced a FRED MCP Connector that uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to simplify connecting FRED data with artificial intelligence systems, Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher J. Waller said Thursday (Oct. 1). In a speech delivered during FRED Con...

FIS Sees Smarter Payments Powering AI Agents
Artificial Intelligence // October 01, 2026

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Mike Magennis of FIS Fall brings football, starting lineups and plenty of arguments over who deserves the first pick. Mike Magennis, senior director of Strategy, Networks at FIS, said he already knows what he would take first in...

Relay Raises $36 Million to Turn the Frontline Radio Into an AI Assistant
Technology // September 30, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With Relay’s Chris Chuang In 1940, engineers at Galvin Manufacturing, the company that would become Motorola, built a handheld two-way radio for the U.S. Army. Soldiers called it the Handie-Talkie. You pressed a button, you talked, you let go. Eighty-six...

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EMVCo Takes On Proof of Permission for AI Payments

October 02, 2026
Artificial intelligence agents add information to a card payment that merchants, issuers and networks don’t routinely exchange today: what the consumer authorized the agent to do and whether the transaction falls within that authority. EMVCo is developing a technical framework for carrying that information through card payments. The standards body closed public comments Sept. 30 […]

FIS Sees Smarter Payments Powering AI Agents

October 01, 2026
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Mike Magennis of FIS Fall brings football, starting lineups and plenty of arguments over who deserves the first pick. Mike Magennis, senior director...

Relay Raises $36 Million to Turn the Frontline Radio Into an AI Assistant

September 30, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Relay’s Chris Chuang In 1940, engineers at Galvin Manufacturing, the company that would become Motorola, built a handheld two-way radio for the U.S. Army....

Why Merchants Save Their Best Offers for Checkout

August 31, 2026
Merchants have plenty of ways to target shoppers with promotions. Their problem is getting the right offer in front of the right customer while there is still a purchase to...

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Lawmakers Urge Google and Spirit Airlines to Pause Data Sale

October 08, 2026
A Google spokesperson told PYMNTS on Thursday (Oct. 8) that the company has already taken measures to address concerns about the company’s purchase of data from Spirit Airlines. The spokesperson said this after more than 100 U.S. lawmakers called on the CEOs of Spirit Airlines and Google to halt the transfer of information related to […]

St. Louis Fed Adapts FRED Database for AI Agents

October 01, 2026
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) has introduced a FRED MCP Connector that uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to simplify connecting FRED data with artificial intelligence systems, Federal Reserve Board...

Hacked FBI Data Exposes Sensitive Details on Employees

September 23, 2026
A trove of data allegedly stolen from the FBI includes detailed information about employees working on sensitive intelligence, counterespionage and security operations, Reuters reported Wednesday (Sept. 23). The data, obtained...

DoorDash Hands Brands Live Shelf Data and Retail Insights

September 23, 2026
Local commerce platform DoorDash introduced a platform that provides brands with purchase-based signals from consumer orders and audit-based signals from shelf scans, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 23)...