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The European Union needs “a deep regulatory housecleaning — at all levels,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday (Feb. 10). Speaking at a European Parliament plenary debate on reviving EU competitiveness, von der Leyen said the European Union must continue to slash bureaucratic costs for companies and that EU member states must […]

Manufacturers racing to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) are often experiencing an uncomfortable reality: productivity declines before gains materialize. A study by MIT Sloan describes what it calls a “productivity paradox” in AI adoption. Drawing on firm-level data, researchers found that early adopters frequently see limited or uneven performance improvements when AI tools are layered […]

The crossroads where cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence meet are quiet these days, according to two venture investors, whose comments during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 were reported Wednesday (Feb. 11) by CoinDesk. Anand Iyer of Canonical Crypto and Kelvin Koh of Spartan Group painted the current environment as a post-hype phase for decentralized AI protocols, […]

Google is reportedly offering users new ways to shop while seeking AI-powered answers. The company has begun testing new ad formats on its search AI mode that lets retailers offer products there, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Feb. 11), citing a letter Google sent to the advertising community. According to the report, Google now also […]

Coinbase says it has developed the first crypto wallet infrastructure designed for AI agents. The cryptocurrency exchange says its Agentic Wallets, announced Wednesday (Feb. 11), let users quickly equip agents with autonomous spending, earning and trading capabilities. “AI agents are everywhere – answering questions, summarizing documents, and assisting with tasks,” Coinbase wrote on its blog. “But today’s agents […]

The Trump Administration’s proposed 10% cap on credit card interest rates would harm access to credit as well as consumer spending in several sectors of the economy, Citi’s head of U.S. personal banking and incoming chief financial officer said Wednesday (Feb. 11). Speaking at the Bank of America Securities 2026 Financial Services Conference, Gonzalo Luchetti said Citibank […]

Tradition is as tradition does. And traditionally, in many finance organizations, fraud protection has lived in the same mental bucket as insurance premiums and audit fees; something necessary, prudent and fundamentally defensive. But as B2B payments accelerate their shift to digital rails across ACH, virtual cards, real-time payments, cross-border platforms and even stablecoins, that […]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ January employment report, released Wednesday (Feb. 11), delivered the kind of headline that suggests calm. Payrolls rose by 130,000 and the unemployment rate held at 4.3%. On its face, that’s a labor market that’s still adding jobs, but no longer running hot. Yet for banking, FinTech and payments leaders, the […]

Money mobility solutions provider Ingo Payments partnered with money transfer FinTech Elektra USA. The collaboration is designed to let Elektra’s customers in the United States, members of the Hispanic community in the U.S., Mexico and Latin America, fund their accounts in the Elektra Go app in real time using Ingo’s instant account funding solution, […]

Online learning marketplace Udemy has launched a new integration with OpenAI. The new arrangement will embed Udemy’s content directly into OpenAI’s interface via an app in ChatGPT, the companies announced Wednesday (Feb. 11). This integration combines Udemy’s catalogue of more than 290,000 courses from 90,000 instructors, with ChatGPT’s conversational AI capabilities, the announcement added. […]

Apptronik has raised $520 million as it prepares to launch a new humanoid robot. The Austin-based company announced its Series A-X funding round Wednesday (Feb. 11), with investors including Google and AT&T. The round brings the company’s total Series A funding to more than $935 million. “The investment will accelerate time to market and […]

Ant Group plans to offer artificial intelligence-powered health services to most of China’s 1.4 billion people within three years, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Feb. 10). The company, whose operations include digital payments platform Alipay as well as lending, wealth management and insurance technology, sees AI-powered healthcare as the source of its next phase of growth, […]

Cash App introduced a peer-to-peer payment feature designed to simplify money requests. The company’s new payment links service lets customers generate shareable Cash App payment request links that can be sent via text, email, social media and messaging apps, according to a Wednesday (Feb. 11) press release emailed to PYMNTS. “Payment links make moving […]

The eCommerce landscape is changing, and infrastructure platforms like Shopify are at the center of this shift. Shopify’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings report Wednesday (Feb. 11) delivered a complex mix of strong top-line growth, modest earnings disappointment and a compelling forward outlook that sent the stock on a volatile ride. “2025 was Shopify […]

Amazon is enhancing its health-related offerings by expanding the geographic range of its same-day prescription delivery service and by launching a beta feature that helps patients understand their lab results. Amazon Pharmacy’s same-day prescription delivery service will add two more states, Idaho and Massachusetts, and nearly 2,000 more communities over the next year, the […]

An Illinois ban on card interchange fees for taxes and tips has survived a court challenge. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division on Tuesday (Feb. 10) sided against a group of financial services organizations which had sued state Attorney General Kwame Raoul over the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (IFPA). […]

Commerce and payments infrastructure provider Rezolve Ai has acquired U.K.-based cash-back rewards company Reward. The $230 million deal, announced Wednesday (Feb. 11), is designed to bolster Rezolve’s AI commerce platform with Reward’s “live enterprise” retail and banking deployments. “Reward is a profitable, scaled platform that sits directly at the heart of AI-driven commerce, already operating at scale, where discovery, […]

The Uber Eats app will soon include a new artificial intelligence-powered beta feature that can build a grocery basket from text or images. When using this new Cart Assistant feature, users can type a shopping list; describe what they would like to make (such as “pancakes from scratch”); or upload an image such as […]

French AI startup Mistral says its revenues have jumped 20-fold in the last year. Co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch told the Financial Times (FT) Wednesday (Feb. 11) that the company’s annualized revenue run rate — a figure based on the prior month’s sales multiplied by 12 —  was “north of $400 million,” versus $20 […]

Scott Hurlbert’s clearest reminder that customer experience is still personal came through a text from his daughter. She was away at college and wanted to do something sensible with her savings, like investing in the kind of high-yield savings move many people make for the first time in their early 20s. “Dad,” she wrote, […]

Watch more: TechREG With Skadden’s Kenneth B. Schwartz, Ingrid Vandenborre, Christopher M. Barlow Acquihiring once sounded like a Silicon Valley novelty. Today, it has become a practical mechanism for companies racing to secure artificial intelligence talent, offering a faster alternative to traditional mergers and acquisitions at a moment when engineers, data scientists and product […]

What if a way to track, forecast and model cash, credit, debt and investments could make your company smarter and stronger? What if the corporate finance function unlocked hidden savings and faster, more efficient ways to strategically allocate money toward operations and growth? And what if a rapidly evolving technology could do all of that […]

The most revealing signal in the latest PYMNTS Intelligence research is not that consumers are experimenting with agentic AI. It is that they are already drawing firm boundaries around where autonomy ends and financial trust begins. That tension sits at the center of the findings contained in “From Assistive to Agentic AI: Consumers Wade Into […]

For many small businesses, cash flow is no longer a background concern. It is the defining constraint shaping daily operations and long-term viability. Delayed receivables are becoming more common and more damaging, even for firms with steady sales. As payment cycles stretch, slow-moving funds are placing increasing pressure on small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) across […]

Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to experimental pilots in the construction industry. It is moving into the operational core of how projects are planned, monitored and executed, driven by labor shortages, safety pressures and rising project complexity. What is emerging is not a single “AI tool,” but an ecosystem of agents, predictive systems and […]