Новости за 02.02.2026

FedEx said it will begin offering enterprise shippers access to new artificial intelligence-powered tools designed to improve post-purchase experiences, as businesses seek to strengthen customer engagement and operational efficiency after checkout. The expanded digital suite includes FedEx Tracking+ and FedEx Returns+, white-labeled solutions that can be embedded directly within a shipper’s own digital channels. […]

From artificial intelligence (AI)-driven chip design and autonomous vehicles to enterprise customer service, real estate transactions and investment banking, startups this week raised billions in capital as investors doubled down on AI as core operating infrastructure. Ricursive Intelligence raised $300 million in a Series A at a $4 billion valuation, a rare level of […]

Google’s Project Genie launch on Thursday (Jan. 29) reignited debate over how far generative artificial intelligence could reshape video game development, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Feb. 2). However, analysts said the experimental tool doesn’t pose a near-term threat to established studios, per the report. Project Genie is an AI prototype developed by Google that […]

When it comes to B2B payments, simple doesn’t exist. And it’s not for lack of trying. These transactions involve multiple stakeholders, negotiated terms, regulatory requirements and legacy systems that have been layered one on top of another for decades, many of them promising greater efficiency while paradoxically increasing complexity. The result can frequently be […]

Varo Bank said its all-digital nationally chartered bank is entering a new stage of growth after raising $123.9 million in a Series G round led by existing investor Warburg Pincus and new investor Coliseum Capital Management. The company also added two members to its board of directors, including Alice Milligan, former chief marketing officer at Morgan Stanley, and Kevin Watters, former […]

Robinhood UK will begin rolling out its stocks & shares ISA in the United Kingdom this week. Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) allow U.K. residents and some other individuals to save tax-free as much as 20,000 pounds (about $27,295) in the 2025 to 2026 tax year, according to a U.K. government website. Robinhood UK’s stocks & shares ISA will bring […]

Klarna announced its support for Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open source standard designed to synchronize artificial intelligence agents and retail systems across the digital shopping journey. The move positions the Swedish FinTech as a primary infrastructure partner in the emerging agentic commerce sector, where autonomous AI assistants handle everything from product discovery […]

Snowflake and OpenAI have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership aimed at embedding artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into Snowflake’s data platform, as enterprises push to move AI from experimentation into production. Under the agreement, which was announced in a Monday (Feb. 2) news release, OpenAI’s models will be available natively within Snowflake’s AI Data […]

The merger between Fifth Third Bancorp and Comerica Incorporated closed Monday (Feb. 2), forging an institution with roughly $294 billion in assets and signaling a reshaping how regional banks compete across mobile banking, commercial payments and middle-market services. The transaction establishes the ninth-largest U.S. bank by assets and links Fifth Third’s consumer digital platform […]

Digital asset investment products recorded a second consecutive week of outflows during the week ended Friday (Jan. 30), leaving year-to-date flows at a global outflow of $1 billion, James Butterfill, head of research at asset manager CoinShares, wrote in a Monday (Feb. 2) blog post. The week’s outflows from digital asset investment products totaled […]

QuickBooks will soon enable small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United States to offer their customers flexible payment options from Affirm. The capability will result from a new multiyear partnership between QuickBooks owner Intuit and Affirm, in which Affirm will become the exclusive pay-over-time solution built into QuickBooks Payments, the companies said in […]

Corporate treasury is a game of anticipation. Teams forecast inflows and outflows, monitor balances and decide when to move idle cash into short-term yield or pull it back for operations. Artificial intelligence has already improved the forecasting side of that equation. Now, a more consequential shift is underway as AI systems that don’t just […]

China-based Alibaba plans to spend 3 billion yuan (about $432 million) during the Lunar New Year holiday to promote its Qwen artificial intelligence app, Reuters reported Monday (Feb. 2). The move escalates a marketing and incentives battle among China’s largest technology firms as consumer-facing AI chatbots compete for users, the report said. In January, […]

U.S. Bank has introduced a Visa-backed credit card designed for small business owners. The U.S. Bank Business Shield Visa Card, announced Monday (Feb. 2) in a news release provided to PYMNTS. , is aimed at helping small businesses handle fluctuations in their resources and financing. “The Business Shield Visa card is designed to help […]

Medical providers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to address claims denials, one of the most persistent and costly problems in healthcare in the United States. Denials delay reimbursement, force staff into manual rework, and contribute to an administrative burden that costs the system billions of dollars each year. What is changing now is […]

The modern power grid works so well that most people never think about it. At least until it doesn’t. Lights turn on instantly, homes stay cool during heat waves and electric vehicles charge overnight, as if electricity were infinite. In reality, the system is under historic strain, absorbing new demand from electrification, climate volatility […]

The Prompt Economy is all about promise and execution. The promise is easy to see in all the announcements from companies like Visa, Mastercard, Google and others that continue to dominate the news. The execution can be seen as CFOs move from experimentation to action. Somewhere in the middle are the developers and the protocols […]

Apple Pay usage has doubled in physical stores over the past year, yet the mobile wallet still processes only 1 in 10 eligible transactions and faces intensifying competition from rivals that are expanding even faster. The findings come from “Apple Pay @11: Usage Is Up, but Competitors Are Gaining Ground,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report […]

American workers drive spending, and rely on timely payments, Ingo Payments CEO Drew Edwards writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off.” Ingo Payments was born as a brick-and-mortar financial institution with 12 branches in the Atlanta metro, serving working-class Latino immigrants who lived on transactional payroll every day. […]

Watch more: Monday Conversation with PicPay’s Eduardo Chedid PicPay’s entry into U.S. public markets last week was not just about ringing the NASDAQ opening bell. It was a statement about where the company’s business, and its growth engine, now lives. After years of building scale through payments, PicPay is taking its credit strategy public. […]

The 21st century has flipped many longstanding business assumptions on their heads. Not the least of which is the traditional point of view that working capital is just a defensive tool firms can use to plug cash gaps as a last resort. In this legacy mindset, access to capital mattered most for businesses. The […]

Apple has reportedly lost at least four AI researchers recently to its big tech rivals. These departures include Yinfei Yang, Haoxuan You, Bailin Wang and Zirui Wang, Bloomberg News reported Friday (Jan. 30). The report, citing sources familiar with the matter, said Yang left to found a new company, You and Bailin Wang joined […]

India is reportedly offering foreign cloud companies a 20-year tax amnesty for building data centers there. The proposal, announced Sunday (Feb 1) by India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and flagged in a report by TechCrunch, would give companies a tax holiday through 2047 for running their artificial intelligence (AI) services through data centers based […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly large role in corporate layoff announcements. But according to a report Saturday (Jan. 31) from The New York Times, some skeptics argue that companies are engaged in “AI washing,” or disingenuously blaming the technology for job cuts. “Many companies announcing AI-related layoffs do not have mature, vetted […]

Bankrupt department store company Saks Global is ending its eCommerce partnership with Amazon. That’s according to a Friday (Jan. 30) report from Reuters, which noted that the arrangement between the two companies had already been strained when Saks filed for bankruptcy last month, even though the retailer hadn’t specified whether it would exercise its […]