By the end of 2025, the conversation around autonomous AI changed in a way that had little to do with public debate and everything to do with use. In 2026, that shift makes the argument about AI hype largely irrelevant.
In 2026, online and digitally-influenced retail finally surpasses brick-and-mortar sales in the categories that matter most to modern retail. This moment has been years in the making, obscured less by consumer behavior than by how the industry measures itself.
In 2026, the Labor Economy becomes one of the most important sources of economic growth — not despite automation, but because of it. As intelligence scales, demand accelerates for human labor that cannot be abstracted away.
Smart Agents are not the next evolution of Super Apps. They reverse the logic that made Super Apps powerful in the first place.
January 12, 2026
“Your margin is my opportunity” was Jeff Bezos’s way of describing Amazon’s hunger for bloated profit pools. In 2026, the real question isn’t whether margins get attacked, but who gets to turn whose margin into whose opportunity as consumers, enterprises and their agents decide how they want interactions to work, what information they are willing to share and where costs ultimately land. From Bezos to agents: who owns the opportunity.
January 09, 2026
In 2026, online and digitally-influenced retail finally surpasses brick-and-mortar sales in the categories that matter most to modern retail. This moment has been years in the making, obscured less by...
May 17, 2018
FIs are turning to artificial intelligence to make more financial decisions than ever before, from deciding who gets (or doesn’t get) a loan to helping customers make smarter financial choices....
November 30, 2017
British banknotes are practically royalty. According to research in the new PYMNTS Global Cash Index™ U.K. Analysis, physical currency is still king (and queen) of payments. And, in the land...
June 12, 2017
The R3 consortium, the distributed ledger technology group, has raised $107 million from roughly half of its members, marking the largest funding round for the technology. 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 […]
May 30, 2017
While healthcare availability is a topic of great debate in the United States, the quality of healthcare on offer is generally not. So when Chinese citizen Guo Shushi’s stomach cancer...
May 30, 2017
As of yesterday, First Data has officially agreed to acquire rival payment processor CardConnect for around $750 million. The deal will reportedly be covered mostly in cash — and will include...
May 26, 2017
Retailers — led by Walmart — seem to have beaten back an attempt to raise swipe fees, according to Congressional aides speaking to Bloomberg. Get the Full Story Complete the...
