Before a merchant can accept card payments, a processor or acquiring bank must decide whether to take on the business and its payment risk. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
Meta tested having human contractors handle some calls for the phone-calling feature of its personal artificial intelligence assistant Muse, Reuters reported Tuesday (Sept. 22), citing internal company posts and a Meta spokesperson. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
A shopper looking for a birthday gift for a nephew opens a chat on Crocs.com, asks for ideas, checks whether a size will fit and wants to know how to return it if it doesn’t. Until this year, that meant bouncing between a product page,...
Apple is developing a new health and fitness tracker in response to the growing popularity of Whoop’s wrist-worn device and Oura’s smart ring, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Sept. 22), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
September 22, 2026
Before a merchant can accept card payments, a processor or acquiring bank must decide whether to take on the business and its payment risk. 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 […]
September 22, 2026
In a bank’s back office, an employee pulls up a customer’s account on a decades-old terminal, reads the balance and types it into a newer web form to finish the...
September 22, 2026
The digital euro is moving out of central bank planning and into checkout, with implications for merchants in the United States and payments providers. Get the Full Story Complete the...
September 22, 2026
Credit card issuers can lose a customer’s spending without losing the customer. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
September 22, 2026
OpenAI is talking with multiple independent assessors to help grow the number of such companies that have expertise in frontier artificial intelligence safety and can provide effective third-party assessments, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 22) blog post. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access […]
September 22, 2026
Meta tested having human contractors handle some calls for the phone-calling feature of its personal artificial intelligence assistant Muse, Reuters reported Tuesday (Sept. 22), citing internal company posts and a...
September 22, 2026
Apple is developing a new health and fitness tracker in response to the growing popularity of Whoop’s wrist-worn device and Oura’s smart ring, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Sept. 22), citing unnamed...
September 22, 2026
SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot surpassed 400,000 weekly users about a month after its launch, offering an early measure of demand for the company’s push into artificial intelligence agents, Bloomberg reported Tuesday...
