Новости за 23.02.2026

Uber has debuted Autonomous Solutions, a suite of services and capabilities designed for autonomous vehicles. These capabilities have already begun helping partners build and commercialize autonomous vehicles (AVs) in markets worldwide, Uber said in a Monday (Feb. 23) news release. “Autonomous technology has remarkable potential to make transportation safer and more affordable,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in […]

Chime Enterprise has announced three of the latest employers that have adopted its financial wellness suite, Chime Workplace. Chime Workplace is an enterprise financial health solution that includes financial tools such as earned wage access, a high-yield savings account and credit-building tools, Chime Enterprise, the enterprise division of Chime, said in a Monday (Feb. 23) press release. Employers that recently […]

Walmart has introduced a new data insights platform for its retail suppliers. Scintilla In-Store is an off-shoot of the company’s Scintilla platform, and is designed to “reduce out-of-stocks, streamline execution, and deliver a seamless omni-shopping experience,” Walmart Data Ventures announced in a news release Monday (Feb. 23). Scintilla is Walmart’s first-party insights platform, designed […]

The European Central Bank is reportedly examining the risks banks face from the AI sector. The ECB is asking lenders for further details on their loans to areas such as data centers, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Feb. 23), citing sources familiar with the matter. At the same time, the ECB is holding workshops to see how banks […]

As noted in a recent Tracker from PYMNTS Intelligence and Velera, credit unions (CUs) are at a critical inflection point in their modernization journeys. Driven by rising member expectations for digital-first, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled and embedded financial experiences, CUs are having to make innovation an increasingly urgent priority. At the same time, many FinTechs, encountering […]

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Paysafe’s Bob Legters The landscape of payments innovation is one shaped by the tension between the perception of frictionless innovation and the reality of legacy rails. Bob Legters, chief product officer at Paysafe, told PYMNTS during a conversation for the What’s Next in Payments series February edition, “Word […]

Transit systems around the world are moving away from cash and paper tickets. Instead, they’re moving toward modernized payments tied to bank-issued contactless cards and digital payments that let riders tap and pay with what they already carry. Bank-issued contactless cards and digital form factors such as smartphones and wearables are becoming the gateway […]

With all the real promise and unrealistic hype around agentic AI, it’s understandable to forget a foundational truth: AI is built on data. No data, no agents. This past week has seen more evidence of exactly how tightly that connection is made. Google says enterprise teams trying to build agentic AI run into a […]

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Michigan Medicine’s Dr. Marschall Runge Twelve months ago, Marschall Runge wasn’t a skeptic, exactly. But he wasn’t a true believer, either. He thought generative AI would be useful in healthcare. A helpful tool, an incremental advance. He didn’t think it would move this fast. He didn’t think it would […]

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Serena Smith of i2c  As the payments industry moves deeper into 2026, executives are confronting a widening gap between innovation and coherence. New rails are coming online. Regulatory expectations continue to evolve. Standards adoption presses forward. Artificial intelligence (AI) introduces new operating models. Each advance carries promise, […]

Many Americans are turning themselves down for credit before a lender ever does. That is the through line of “Consumer Credit Economy: Strategy vs. Spontaneity—Navigating the Great Credit Divide” a PYMNTS Intelligence report. Based on a U.S. census-balanced survey of 2,049 U.S. adult consumers, the report finds a wide mismatch between how consumers think credit works and what […]

Cybersecurity software stocks fell last week after Anthropic unveiled a new security feature for its Claude model. That’s according to a report Friday (Feb. 20) from Bloomberg News, which characterizes this as the latest example of software shares dropping due to worries about competition from artificial intelligence firms. In this case, the release of […]

Gemini is reportedly cutting more staff amid an 82% decline in the crypto firm’s valuation. The company has in recent days laid off additional workers beyond the 25% of staff cuts it announced earlier this month, Bloomberg News reported Sunday (Feb. 22), citing sources familiar with the matter. The news came days after the […]

Blockchain and decentralized finance company Wellspring has introduced a treasury management solution for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Wellspring Institutional is designed to offer finance teams centralized cash visibility, integrated domestic and cross-border payments, as well as “the ability to generate yield on treasury balances through a single operating environment,” the company said in […]

A Google executive is warning that two popular types of AI startups could be in trouble. Darren Mowry, who heads Google’s global startup organization, told TechCrunch in an interview published Saturday (Feb. 21) that companies built around LLM wrappers and AI aggregators have their “check engine light” on. Wrappers, the report says, are basically […]

Last week, the Supreme Court sided with American businesses in their fight against White House tariffs. But as The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday, CEOs aren’t declaring victory just yet, as a number of issues remain unresolved, such as the question of whether refunds will happen, or how to proceed without angering either […]

OpenAI has reportedly told investors its compute costs could approach $600 billion by the decade’s end. That’s according to a report Friday (Feb. 20) by CNBC, which says this figure came months after CEO Sam Altman said the company had made $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments. The artificial intelligence startup is offering up a […]

America’s packaged food giants are reportedly cutting prices to woo cautious consumers. General Mills, Kraft Heinz and PepsiCo are among the food companies who have either reduced prices or extended existing cuts amid cooling sales, the Financial Times (FT) reported Saturday (Feb. 21). The report points to several factors driving down sales, including the […]

Bitcoin, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, is less popular these days. The crypto token has fallen more than 40% since its peak last fall, Bloomberg News reported Saturday (Feb. 21), amid the growing popularity of stablecoins and prediction markets. The price of bitcoin hit a record high of $126,272 in October 2025. In the […]