The Prompt Economy news and trends

AI Travel Agents Pack a Threat for Travel Aggregators
Travel Payments // June 22, 2026

Agentic AI is moving into tourism faster than most of the industry expected. Agents can now query availability, compare prices across carriers and hotels, apply traveler preferences, and in some cases complete a booking without a human clicking a single button. For an industry built...

AI Agents Force Finance to Fix the Sandbox Problem
Artificial Intelligence // June 08, 2026

The finance team built the model. It ran clean in the pilot. It surfaced patterns the analysts had missed for years. Then the quarter hit, deadlines compressed and the dashboard sat open in a browser tab nobody had time to check. Get the Full Story...

Enterprise AI Moves Beyond Chatbots Into Decisions and Workflows
Artificial Intelligence // April 13, 2026

Agentic AI for consumers and shopping seems to be in a holding pattern as merchants and LLMs catch up with the technology and security issues. No surprise then that the past week has seen a spate of enterprise AI developments in The Prompt Economy. Get...

AWS and UnitedHealthcare Take Back-Office to Front-End Approach to Healthcare AI
Artificial Intelligence // April 06, 2026

One of the most promising sectors of The Prompt Economy is in healthcare. It’s a two-sided promise, with burned out doctors and clinicians on one side and consumers who need help navigating a complex system on the other. Can agentic AI help both sides? Get...

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State Governments Turn to AI to Do the Grunt Work

July 13, 2026
This week in the Prompt Economy, the spotlight is on how AI is reshaping local and federal government. One of the most dramatic examples surfaced this week in the U.S. heartland. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins […]

AI Travel Agents Pack a Threat for Travel Aggregators

June 22, 2026
Agentic AI is moving into tourism faster than most of the industry expected. Agents can now query availability, compare prices across carriers and hotels, apply traveler preferences, and in some...

AI Agents Force Finance to Fix the Sandbox Problem

June 08, 2026
The finance team built the model. It ran clean in the pilot. It surfaced patterns the analysts had missed for years. Then the quarter hit, deadlines compressed and the dashboard...

Enterprise AI Moves Beyond Chatbots Into Decisions and Workflows

April 13, 2026
Agentic AI for consumers and shopping seems to be in a holding pattern as merchants and LLMs catch up with the technology and security issues. No surprise then that the...