Новости за 27.02.2026

Burger King has equipped managers and employees with an artificial intelligence-powered tool called BK Assistant. BK Assistant providers staffers with access to operational guidelines, inventory management and compliance tracking, “enabling them to focus more on guest service and team leadership,” Burger King owner and quick service restaurant company Restaurant Brands International (RBI) said in […]

It was probably one of those moments where you remember where you were when you heard it. Block announced Thursday (Feb. 26) that it will cut roughly 4,000 jobs, or close to 40% of its workforce, as part of a broad restructuring that CEO Jack Dorsey said is aimed at making the company “smaller, faster […]

January’s Producer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics came in hotter than expected. For businesses navigating tariff swings and fragile global supply chains, rising service margins signal that cost pressure is rippling through logistics and distribution channels. As for the read across for consumers, even when commodity prices cool, supply chain volatility can […]

Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said the industry is decades away from developing artificial general intelligence (AGI). In an interview with Fast Company posted Friday (Feb. 27), Ng said he defines AGI as AI that can perform any intellectual task that humans can, such as learning to drive a truck or writing a PhD […]

Trade finance has a dirty secret. While containers can be tracked in real time across the world’s oceans, the documentation required to release those goods often moves at the speed of courier envelopes and manual approvals. Bills of lading, inspection certificates and letters of credit still pass through fragmented systems, requiring reconciliation by armies […]

OpenAI on Friday (Feb. 27) confirmed it has raised $110 billion in new funding from Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank, in one of the largest private capital raises in technology history, as the company moves to secure the compute and infrastructure needed to scale advanced AI systems globally. The round includes $50 billion from Amazon, […]

Barclays is looking to build a blockchain platform that could handle stablecoin payments and tokenized deposits, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. 27), citing unnamed sources. The bank has sent a request for information to some technology suppliers that could help it add digital asset technology, and it aims to start working with suppliers as soon […]

Project Prometheus, an artificial intelligence lab co-founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former Google executive Vikram Bajaj, is raising “tens of billions of dollars” to buy businesses disrupted by AI and then use the technology to improve their margins, the Financial Times reported Thursday (Feb. 26), citing unnamed sources. The company did not […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the service of agentic commerce searches for products, compares prices, negotiates terms and, in some cases with agents, executes transactions on behalf of individuals and businesses. Payment approvals, merchant onboarding and recurring bill pay are increasingly embedded in automated decision loops. That acceleration alters the urgency of identity controls, and […]

Duolingo said Thursday (Feb. 27) that it plans to shift its focus from financial growth to user growth amid a challenge posed by artificial intelligence. Louis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, said in a Thursday earnings release that the mobile learning platform surpassed 50 million daily active users and generated over $1 […]

Stablecoins are out there; now they just need to work. The next phase for stablecoins may focus less on issuance and more on interoperability in practice. Multiple stablecoins, operating under different regulatory regimes, will need mechanisms to transact seamlessly with one another and with traditional bank money. When infrastructure becomes boring, it has usually […]

The corporate front desk and the internal help desk are becoming faster, smarter and always on. New data from RingCentral and ServiceNow shows AI systems handling inbound calls and resolving IT tickets at scale. AI’s New Front Desk One significant example of artificial intelligence moving into the customer experience layer is the rapid adoption […]

InComm Payments and SKUx announced Friday morning (Feb. 27) a strategic partnership to improve how digital payments are distributed for humanitarian aid and other applications for emerging markets. The announcement lands as disaster recovery funding faces tighter scrutiny, shifting more responsibility to state and local agencies. The companies said they will pair InComm Payments’ […]

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Paymentus’ Nicole Haskins The FinTech landscape has overindexed on innovation. But in an operational landscape defined by automation, predictive analytics, and invisible payments, the most important innovation in financial technology may ultimately be an attitudinal one. “My word of the year is ‘service,’” Nicole Haskins, director of […]

Nearly one-third of millennials depend on transactional payouts from gig work and tips as their main source of income, replacing traditional paychecks with a piecemeal approach to earning that demands instant access to money. This finding from the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Instant Payouts: The New Paycheck for a Real-Time Economy” highlighted a shift in […]

When it comes to the Amazon-Walmart competition, grocery has become a key battleground. Why? It’s the closest thing U.S. retail has to a weekly subscription. Win the cart, and you earn repeat trips and durable customer habits. That’s why recent consumer-tracking data showing Walmart’s grocery penetration at a record 72% of U.S. households lands as […]

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments With Mastercard’s Mark Barnett Strategic narratives in payments can come with some loaded words. Artificial intelligence, institutional blockchain and real-time rails are routinely positioned as the decisive forces shaping the next cycle. Mark Barnett, global head of small and medium enterprises at Mastercard, told PYMNTS during a conversation […]

Blockchain-native capital marketplace Figure Technology Solutions saw its Consumer Loan Marketplace volume double year-over-year in the fourth quarter. The volume rose 131% over that period to reach $2.7 billion in the fourth quarter, the company said in a Thursday (Feb. 26) earnings release. Figure Connect, the company’s blockchain-based marketplace for private credit that was […]

Klarna said Wednesday (Feb. 25) that the number of people using its app on a daily basis rose by 53% over the past year and now stands at 9 million. The company said in a press release that this growth demonstrates more frequent use of Klarna’s banking, spending and shopping services as customers make […]

The RealReal’s latest earnings message is less about a single quarter’s sales tally and more about how the luxury reseller thinks artificial intelligence can rewire the work behind every listing, from deciding which sellers to pursue to getting more items authenticated, described and priced fast enough to meet demand. On the Q&A portion of […]

Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould said Thursday (Feb. 26) that he will consider sharing the unredacted bank charter application of World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance company co-founded by members of the Trump family, with the chairman and the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. […]

Einride, a developer of digital, electric and autonomous freight solutions, raised $113 million in private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing to support a proposed business combination it announced in November. The transaction values Einride at $1.35 billion, pre-money, the company said in a Thursday (Feb. 26) press release. The company will use the […]

Block’s massive staff cuts dominated the news surrounding its fourth quarter earnings release and conference call Thursday (Feb. 26). As the company culls its workforce from more than 10,000 employees to just under 6,000, Block also used the call to point to accelerating growth in its banking ecosystem, in terms of active users, transactions […]

Apple asked a federal judge Thursday (Feb. 26) to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges the company defrauded shareholders, Reuters reported Thursday. The plaintiff alleges that Apple overstated its progress in adding artificial intelligence features to its voice assistant Siri and that the company misrepresented its ability to comply with a 2021 […]

The Brink’s Company plans to acquire NCR Atleos in a cash and stock transaction valued at $6.6 billion, creating a “leading financial technology infrastructure company,” the firms said in a Thursday (Feb. 26) press release. The companies have entered into a definitive agreement on the acquisition, and they expect the transactions to close in the first quarter of 2027, subject […]