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OpenAI Images 2.0 Is a Real Leap With a Real Price Tag
Artificial Intelligence // April 22, 2026

Two years ago, asking an artificial intelligence (AI) image model for a software dashboard mockup meant getting back something that looked like a dashboard had melted, with corrupted labels and drifted columns. A designer would have to spend an hour cleaning it up. PYMNTS tested...

Who Made This Song? Platforms Start to Label AI Music
Artificial Intelligence // March 06, 2026

An artificial intelligence (AI)-generated country song reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart last fall, and few listeners knew the song was created by a machine. The track, “Walk My Walk,” was released under the name Breaking Rust, a fictional artist with...

OpenAI Marks 1 Million Business Customer Milestone
Artificial Intelligence // November 05, 2025

OpenAI said it now has more than 1 million business customers around the world. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup announced this milestone Wednesday (Nov. 5), saying it makes OpenAI “the fastest-growing business platform in history.” The figure, the company said on its blog, “includes all...

CFOs Shift AI Budgets to Agents in 2026
Artificial Intelligence // October 01, 2025

Enterprise spending on GenAI is slowing as finance leaders recalibrate their priorities in a shifting macroeconomic environment. Just 26.7% of CFOs expect to raise GenAI budgets in the next 12 months, according to a recent PYMNTS Intelligence survey (from the chart below) of 60 enterprises....

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CFOs Shift AI Budgets to Agents in 2026

October 01, 2025
Enterprise spending on GenAI is slowing as finance leaders recalibrate their priorities in a shifting macroeconomic environment. Just 26.7% of CFOs expect to raise GenAI budgets in the next 12 months, according to a recent PYMNTS Intelligence survey (from the chart below) of 60 enterprises. That compares with 53.3% a year ago, a steep decline […]

Growth of AI Agents Puts Corporate Controls to the Test

June 27, 2025
Watch more: Trustly: Growth of AI Agents Will Put Corporate Controls to the Test The technology sector’s famous phrase, “Move fast and break things,” just got a shot in the...

Stax CTO: It’s Time to Orchestrate AI

June 26, 2025
Watch more: Stax CTO on Why Agentic AI Needs Orchestration Layers to Scale When it comes to many innovations across payments, hype can often outpace practical deployment. But even against...

Agentic AI Is Redrawing the Org Chart for Smarter Businesses

June 24, 2025
Watch more: Agentic AI Is Redrawing the Org Chart for Smarter Businesses The business world watched generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) advance in 2024, as it churned out human-like text, code...

Quick Reads
OpenAI Marks 1 Million Business Customer Milestone

November 05, 2025
OpenAI said it now has more than 1 million business customers around the world. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup announced this milestone Wednesday (Nov. 5), saying it makes OpenAI “the fastest-growing business platform in history.” The figure, the company said on its blog, “includes all organizations that actively pay OpenAI for business use—either through ChatGPT […]

Visa Debuts AI-Powered Commercial Solutions Hub

September 29, 2025
Visa introduced its Commercial Solutions (VCS) Hub, designed to offer issuers and FinTechs new commercial payment tools. “Visa is not just modernizing commercial payments, we’re reinventing them,” Gloria Colgan, SVP...

German Data Protection Authority Asks Apple and Google to Stop Distributing DeepSeek App

June 27, 2025
A German data protection authority regulator said Friday (June 27) that she told Apple and Google that the DeepSeek artificial intelligence-powered chatbot app is “illegal content” and that the companies...

Google Launches Virtual Try-On App Featuring AI-Generated Videos

June 27, 2025
Google launched an experimental app Thursday (June 26) that lets users not only virtually “try on” outfits but also see themselves in motion while wearing them. The new Doppl app...