Generative Ai news and trends

Spotify Turns AI Fan Covers Into Artist Paychecks
Artificial Intelligence // May 22, 2026

Spotify and Universal Music Group have built a rights framework for something that has been happening without one: fans using artificial intelligence AI to cover and remix songs. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

AI Fakes the Founder and Keeps the Money
Social Commerce // May 08, 2026

A video appeared on Instagram a few weeks ago: a granddaughter describing how her grandfather spent decades hand-stitching leather bags in a small workshop, his life’s work now available online for a limited time. The imagery was warm, the narration emotional, the backstory complete. It...

ElevenLabs Opened a Music Store While Taylor Swift Lawyered Up 
Artificial Intelligence // April 30, 2026

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) changed the economics of music fast. The harder questions about authorship, ownership, what a song is worth and who it belongs to are still unanswered. ElevenLabs built a platform anyway. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

98% of US Product Leaders Expect Gen AI to Improve Workflows
Artificial Intelligence // March 04, 2026

Generative AI is cementing its status as a near-term operating upgrade for U.S. product chiefs, with rising confidence that it can speed work while also improving control in sensitive areas such as security and compliance. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

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98% of US Product Leaders Expect Gen AI to Improve Workflows

March 04, 2026
Generative AI is cementing its status as a near-term operating upgrade for U.S. product chiefs, with rising confidence that it can speed work while also improving control in sensitive areas such as security and compliance. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content […]

Shadow AI Shows Up as Compliance Problem at Work

January 14, 2026
Shadow AI is rapidly becoming the generative AI risk that compliance leaders do not discover until something breaks. Even as enterprises deploy “approved” copilots and internal model platforms, employees are...

77% of Chief Product Officers Use Gen AI for Cybersecurity

November 06, 2025
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) may be rewriting product playbooks, but it hasn’t yet written humans out of them. The newest PYMNTS Intelligence report, “From Spark to Strategy: How Product Leaders...

Pichai Says Gemini App Has 650 Million Downloads 

October 29, 2025
If there were any questions about what drove Google parent Alphabet towards its first ever quarter of notching more than $100 billion in sales, they were quickly laid to rest...

Quick Reads
Amazon Adds AI Image Search to Its Shopping App

June 11, 2026
The shopper who can’t remember the word “cowl neck” or doesn’t know what “rattan” means has always been the hardest customer to serve. Amazon just built a tool for her. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. […]

AI Cuts Booking Holdings Customer Service Costs 10% as Volumes Rise

February 18, 2026
Generative artificial intelligence enabled Booking Holdings to reduce its customer service costs year over year, even as the company handled 10% more bookings, Booking Holdings Chief Financial Officer Ewout Steenbergen...

Amazon Starts Nationwide Rollout of Alexa+ One Year After Soft Launch

February 04, 2026
Amazon is broadening the role of artificial intelligence (AI) across its business, rolling out a new generation of Alexa, exploring deeper access to OpenAI’s models and applying AI tools inside...

Google DeepMind Introduces Project Genie for Interactive AI World Building

January 29, 2026
Google DeepMind has introduced Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that uses its latest world-model artificial intelligence (AI) to generate and explore interactive virtual environments, according to a Thursday (Jan....