TikTok Shop has banned artificial intelligence-generated voices, prerecorded audio and static-image content from promotional livestreams and shoppable videos, drawing a hard line between AI as a production tool and AI as a customer-facing salesperson. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
A physician’s day is a stack of interruptions: patient calls come in on personal phones, notes get typed after hours, documentation tools sit in one tab and medical references in another. Each handoff between systems costs time that high-volume clinical environments don’t have. Get the Full Story Complete...
OpenAI has reportedly purchased Weights.gg, a startup offering artificial intelligence tools to clone people’s voices. 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,...
For years, retail’s artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions revolved around making search smarter. Now, Amazon and Walmart—two of the world’s biggest retailers—are placing very different bets on what comes next. The split says a lot about where commerce may actually be headed. Get the Full Story...
May 14, 2026
For years, retail’s artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions revolved around making search smarter. Now, Amazon and Walmart—two of the world’s biggest retailers—are placing very different bets on what comes next. The split says a lot about where commerce may actually be headed. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited […]
February 17, 2026
Voice technology has spent a decade as a high-tech novelty, a hands-free way to set timers or check the weather that consistently hit a ceiling at the point of transaction....
December 17, 2025
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: i2c’s John Bresnahan Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
December 02, 2025
By any conventional startup logic, raising a $70 million seed round sounds improbable. Double that improbability for a business just exiting from stealth after being founded in September. Get the...
July 09, 2026
Voice AI model builder Gradium has announced that an extension of its seed financing brought its funding to $100 million. 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 Today. By completing this […]
May 17, 2026
OpenAI has reportedly purchased Weights.gg, a startup offering artificial intelligence tools to clone people’s voices. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
March 31, 2026
The next version of Siri may be able to handle multiple requests delivered in a single prompt, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (March 31), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete the...
February 04, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) voice technology company ElevenLabs has closed a $500 million Series D funding round, boosting its valuation to approximately $11 billion, according to a Wednesday (Feb. 4) press...
