Новости за 03.04.2026

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has classified a breach of its networks as a “major incident,” Bloomberg reported Thursday (April 2). This designation applies to breaches that are likely to cause demonstrable harm to U.S. interests or expose significant amounts of personally identifiable information, and it requires that agencies and their contractors implement […]

Perplexity went to a federal appeals court on Wednesday (April 1) seeking to overturn an injunction that bars its artificial intelligence (AI) shopping agent, Comet, from accessing Amazon, according to MediaPost. Perplexity is arguing that directing its AI agent to shop on Amazon is no different from opening a browser and visiting the site. […]

One Inc and ManageMy have partnered to help insurance companies leverage digital payment capabilities. This collaboration brings together One Inc’s ClaimsPay and PremiumPay network, which enables insurance-native digital payments, and ManageMy’s platform for insurance carriers, which enables digital experiences across sales, service and claims, the companies said in a Thursday (April 2) press release. This combination will allow carriers using the ManageMy platform to […]

Digital payments have traditionally been a story of interfaces. Whether tapping a connected device or sending money through a platform’s API, the experience has been designed around the human intentions of clicking, confirming and completing a transaction. On Thursday (April 2), those legacy payments got an autonomous upgrade with the transfer of the x402 […]

U.K. FinTechs VibePay and Smartlayer have shut down, according to media reports. VibePay, which was founded in 2019 and offered a consumer payments app that focused on account-to-account payments and targeted younger consumers, has entered liquidation, Finance Feeds reported Thursday (April 2), citing a Companies House filing. The company found itself without acquisition support after a proposed acquisition by Banked was not completed, and […]

It used to take large teams and years to build a billion-dollar company. Now just one AI-savvy founder can scale it solo. Matthew Gallagher launched Medvi, a GLP-1 telehealth startup, out of his Los Angeles home in September 2024 with just $20,000, no employees, and more than a dozen artificial intelligence tools. Medvi posted […]

Saks Global has secured $500 million in exit financing from a group of its senior secured bondholders and expects to emerge from Chapter 11 this summer. The luxury retailer expects to file a plan of reorganization within weeks, it said in a Thursday (April 3) press release. Saks Global CEO Geoffroy van Raemdonck said in the release that the bondholders’ […]

Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, an artificial intelligence (AI) BioTech startup founded last fall, for about $400 million, The Information reported Thursday (April 2), citing an unnamed source. The Coefficient Bio team, which includes fewer than 10 employees and was developing a platform that uses AI for planning drug research and development, managing clinical […]

Crypto going corporate is shining a spotlight on the sector’s more technical components. The growing institutional embrace of blockchain finance is prompting some Fortune Global 500 companies to get into the nitty gritty of the industry’s decentralized architecture and begin running their own validator nodes on select blockchain networks, signaling a broader institutional move […]

The front door to financial services is widening to include social media platforms, marked by payments integrations and new movements into lending. PYMNTS Intelligence data shows that consumers engage across multiple digital activities throughout the day, including communication, shopping and banking, often within the same device and session, which means that financial decisions are […]

Stablecoin issuer Tether will likely postpone its current fundraising effort if too few investors commit to the deal within the next two weeks, The Information reported Friday (April 3), citing unnamed sources. The company has been working to raise funds since late last year but has encountered investor concerns about the $500 billion valuation […]

When Zeus, a medical student in central Nigeria, comes home from the hospital, he straps his iPhone to his forehead and records himself making his bed. He moves slowly, keeping his hands in frame. The footage goes to Micro1, a Palo Alto company that sells real-world human movement data to robotics firms. He earns $15 […]

OpenAI is making an unexpected media move, buying Silicon Valley tech talk show TBPN in a deal reportedly valued in the low hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the Financial Times. The acquisition stands out because it pushes the ChatGPT maker beyond software and deeper into the business of shaping the public conversation around […]

The history of technology is littered with winners and losers. The winners typically have at least one thing in common: they were able to control the primary interface between large user audiences and the digital services they desired. The personal computer era was defined by operating systems that mediated access to software. The web […]

A growing share of small businesses are not leaving credit unions yet, but they are preparing to. That is the underlying signal in the PYMNTS Intelligence and Velera report, “Credit Union Innovation Readiness: The Real Story Behind Member Churn.” The report finds that most small- to mid-sized business (SMB) members remain loyal for now, […]

Consumers are no longer choosing how to pay based on habit or loyalty. They are selecting financial tools with a specific outcome in mind at the moment of purchase. That shift is most visible among younger consumers, where paying over time has become less about access to credit and more about aligning payment structure […]

The Home Depot has named Ford Motor Company artificial intelligence leader Franziska Bell to head the home improvement retailer’s integration of agentic AI and machine learning. As its new executive vice president and chief technology officer, effective Monday (April 6), Bell will lead The Home Depot’s efforts around technology, product management, data and AI, […]

Chime has launched a premium membership tier that rewards members who make Chime their primary checking account. The new Chime Prime is automatically delivered to members who receive at least $3,000 per month in qualifying direct deposits, the FinTech company said in a Thursday (April 2) press release. Chime Prime members gain access to […]

Payday loan provider Check City has notified 322,687 people about a March 2025 data breach, Comparitech reported Thursday (April 2). The data breach compromised names, Social Security numbers, government-issued ID numbers, financial account numbers, credit and debit card numbers, dates of birth and addresses, according to the report. A ransomware group called Clop claimed […]

The attack on Drift, a crypto exchange that offers perpetual futures on the Solana blockchain, remained underway late Thursday (April 2). A banner across the top of Drift’s website said late Thursday: “Drift is being paused until further notice due to irregular activity in the protocol.” Drift said Wednesday (April 1) that it is […]

Sellers using Amazon’s shipping services will be required to pay a fuel and logistics-related surcharge, the company said in a Thursday (April 2) post on Amazon Seller Central. The surcharge will amount to 3.5% and will be calculated on each seller’s fulfillment fees, not on the sale price of their items, according to the post. Starting April 17, Amazon will apply the […]

The Justice Department will appeal a judge’s ruling from March 26 that blocked the Trump administration’s ban on government use of Anthropic’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Bloomberg reported Thursday (April 2), citing a court filing. In the case, Anthropic sued to challenge the Defense Department’s designation of the company as a supply chain risk, and the […]

Operating under a nation’s laws doesn’t mean that a business is necessarily complying with them. Innovation, after all, can often outpace regulation. The digital asset sector is well aware of this tension, and as the industry matures it is facing the challenge of striking that balance anew, particularly around the emergence of stablecoin-linked cards. […]

A health-focused startup founded by Spotify Co-founder Daniel Ek plans to open its first U.S. location as soon as this spring if it gets regulatory approval, Bloomberg reported Thursday (April 2). Neko Health offers full-body health scans that include imaging, a blood test and other tests, and checks for skin cancer, heart disease, diabetes risk and other conditions, according to the […]

The artificial intelligence industry spends considerable energy debating what models can do. Anthropic asked a different question: What do people actually want them to do? The answer, drawn from 80,508 interviews across 159 countries and 70 languages, is more personal than most industry projections suggest, and it maps closely onto the behavioral shift that consumer […]