Williams-Sonoma is putting hard numbers behind what conversational artificial intelligence can do for a retailer’s bottom line. Engagement with Olive, Williams-Sonoma’s AI shopping assistant, has risen 700% since the start of the year, and revenue tied to the tool is up 620%, Sameer Hassan, the...
Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek has seen its revenues jump by around tenfold since 2025, The Information reported Tuesday (Aug. 25), citing unnamed sources. The company generated roughly 475 million yuan (about $70.7 million) in revenue in the first seven months of this year, or...
Anthropic is preparing to tell investors that it anticipates potential revenues of more than $30 trillion, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Aug. 25), citing unnamed sources. The figure would exceed the $28.5 trillion revenue estimate from SpaceX. Anthropic did not reply to PYMNTS’ request...
Retail media is giving Walmart, Target and Amazon a faster-growing source of revenue than their core retail businesses, built on the same traffic, searches and transaction data generated by stores, websites and marketplaces. The latest quarter showed the gap. Sales from Walmart Connect increased 43%...
August 12, 2026
For small businesses in the United States, the clearest growth opportunities increasingly sit beyond the storefront. “Why Main Street’s Digital Survivors Are Pulling Ahead: Four Years of Small Business Data” drew on 23 PYMNTS Intelligence surveys conducted from July 2022 through February 2026. The research covered U.S. businesses with up to $10 million in annual […]
May 20, 2026
Business uncertainty remained elevated in March, with 27% of payment executives reporting high uncertainty levels even as optimism about the next 12 months rose, according to new PYMNTS Intelligence data....
February 10, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Priority’s Brendan Kirsch On a sold-out Friday night, a modern sports venue becomes a small city. Tens of thousands of people arrive within a...
December 08, 2025
Embedded finance has moved from a technology option to a revenue model for online marketplaces. The change is driven by the need to retain customers, reduce churn, and keep transactions...
September 17, 2026
Robust adoption of China’s artificial intelligence models has yet to yield corresponding revenues, according to a report published Thursday (Sept. 17) by research firm Rhodium Group. All of China’s AI models put together generate roughly a tenth of the revenue reported by the two leading U.S. AI startups, OpenAI and Anthropic, per the report. Annual […]
August 26, 2026
Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek has seen its revenues jump by around tenfold since 2025, The Information reported Tuesday (Aug. 25), citing unnamed sources. The company generated roughly 475 million...
August 25, 2026
Anthropic is preparing to tell investors that it anticipates potential revenues of more than $30 trillion, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Aug. 25), citing unnamed sources. The figure would...
August 18, 2026
Walmart’s investors are counting on the company’s ad business to drive profits as same-store sales growth has cooled and the company’s stock has fallen on a cautious annual outlook, Reuters...
