Новости за 17.04.2026

The Home Depot aims to strengthen its same-day and next-day fulfillment strategy with its acquisition of SIMPL Automation. The home improvement retailer announced the acquisition in a Wednesday (April 15) press release, saying SIMPL uses advanced engineering and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help distribution facilities operate faster and more efficiently. Prior to the […]

Few phrases in corporate history have proven as durable as “no one ever got fired for buying IBM.” It is shorthand for something deeper: when stakes are high decision-makers often choose what protects their own position over what maximizes institutional value. That calculus has not disappeared. It has migrated. Today’s buyers may not be […]

French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said Friday (April 17) that European banks should develop more euro-based stablecoins and tokenized deposits to reduce the continent’s reliance on non-European payment providers, Reuters reported Friday. In pre-recorded comments delivered at a cryptocurrency conference in Paris, Lescure said that the small volume of euro-pegged stablecoins compared to dollar-pegged […]

Importers are preparing to file claims Monday (April 20) for refunds of tariffs, but are not certain what to expect, Reuters reported Friday (April 17). The federal government is set to launch a new system for handling the claims process on Monday, according to the report. Some importers are concerned that the new system […]

Almost 40% of U.S. data center projects are at risk of falling behind schedule, the Financial Times reported Thursday (April 16), citing data from satellite and artificial intelligence (AI) analytics group SynMax. The company also found that 60% of projects scheduled for next year have not yet begun construction, according to the report. SynMax uses satellite […]

The world moves fast, and money movement needs to keep up. That’s a large part of why stablecoins are gaining traction. In an era of compressed settlement cycles and globalized treasury operations, the appeal of borderless digital dollars is an obvious one. Stablecoins can offer near-instant transfers, 24/7 liquidity and a bridge between traditional […]

Social platforms have long influenced what consumers browse and buy, but the next step is to determine whether they can also hold the money that enables those decisions. That question comes into sharper focus as X prepares to introduce X Money, a payments and financial services layer that is expected to begin early public […]

European Union officials met with Anthropic Wednesday (April 15) to discuss concerns about the company’s Mythos artificial intelligence (AI) model, and more such meetings are planned, Agence France-Presse reported Thursday (April 16). European Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier shared this news with reporters, saying the AI model comes with risks, and the EU needs information […]

Ordering food used to mean opening an app and scrolling until something looked good. Three restaurant brands just decided that’s too much work and handed the job to ChatGPT. Consumers already use ChatGPT to plan trips, research products, and figure out what to cook for dinner. Restaurants are just catching up. Starbucks and Little […]

Quantum computers are supposed to be the most powerful machines ever built. Getting them to run has been the hard part. Before one can run a useful calculation, a team of specialists has to spend days manually tuning the system. Even after that, the machine keeps making mistakes faster than existing software can catch […]

Live social shopping company QVC Group has begun voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings to implement a comprehensive prepackaged financial restructuring plan. The plan is outlined in a Restructuring Support Agreement (RSA) the company reached with most of its lenders and will “substantially reduce” the company’s debt, strengthen its financial position and enable it to pursue […]

Uber Eats has begun offering returns on retail items purchased on its app. Calling it a first for the on-demand delivery space, the company announced Friday (April 17) that customers can now send back eligible retail items bought over Uber Eats and receive a refund, without leaving home.  “Returns are one of the biggest […]

A new warning from top financial officials is pushing AI risk to the center of the global banking conversation. At this week’s IMF and World Bank spring meetings in Washington, regulators and central bankers focused on Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos Preview model and the possibility that advanced large language models could expose weak spots in […]

Agent-driven identity threats are becoming a defining challenge for enterprises as they scale revenue and expand across markets, increasing fraud risk and customer friction. “Scale Amplification: How Revenue Amplifies Agent-Driven Identity,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Trulioo, examines how digital identity challenges evolve as companies scale, amplifying fraud risk and customer friction. Its central […]

Watch more: Need to Know With Lorum’s George Davis The financial system has a clearing problem, and it’s not about broken technology. It’s about who the technology was built to serve, and more importantly, who it wasn’t. Lorum Co-Founder and CEO George Davis made that point in a conversation with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster, […]

Watch more: Need to Know With Capital One’s Nat Hewett Small business spending continues to underpin broad economic activity, but the systems that support that spending have room for improvement. Many owners launch with urgency, using whatever tools are immediately available, and only later confront the operational consequences. Those consequences tend to appear not […]

Slower initial deployment of AI is less costly than a scaled failure, Flagright Co-founder and CEO Baran Ozkan writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “AI Runs Payments. Governance Decides What Happens Next.”   From where I sit at Flagright, AI governance usually breaks down in the gap between a model output and a business decision. […]

 Explore more conversations like this From the Block.  Stablecoins have long promised a cleaner, faster financial system. What they have lacked is a convincing bridge to the world people and businesses already use. In the latest episode of the “From the Block” podcast with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster and Ryan Rugg, the global head […]

Payment friction isn’t a single-industry problem—it’s systemic. PYMNTS Intelligence data from “Vertical-First Payments: How Low-Code Wins in Education, Healthcare and Field Services,” produced in collaboration with Finix, reveals that legacy payment infrastructures built on manual processes and disconnected systems remain deeply embedded across high-trust sectors. The cost is real: limited visibility, delayed cash flow […]

OpenAI has introduced an artificial intelligence model that is purpose-built for scientific research and drug discovery. The new GPT-Rosalind features improved tool use and a deeper understanding of chemistry, protein engineering and genomics, the company said in a Thursday (April 16) press release. With this new AI model, OpenAI aims to help scientists overcome […]

Amazon pressures sellers using its platform to raise their prices on competitors’ websites if those prices are even a penny lower than Amazon’s, The Guardian reported Thursday (April 16), citing California authorities’ comments on newly unsealed records that were filed as part of an antitrust battle between the retailer and the state. The documents […]

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is using artificial intelligence to boost efficiency, CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig told a congressional committee Thursday (April 16). Speaking during a House Committee on Agriculture hearing, Selig said AI is one of the technologies the agency is using to “run more like businesses” and to be “more […]

Government officials and bankers outside the United States are concerned that they may not receive the same information-sharing as their American counterparts when it comes to Anthropic’s Mythos artificial intelligence (AI) model, Bloomberg reported Thursday (April 16). It is not known how much detail Anthropic is sharing about the unreleased AI model with people outside the […]

The latest round of big bank earnings offers a clear signal that digital channels are central to how deposits are gathered, retained and expanded. Across JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup, executives outlined a system in which mobile usage, client activity and consumer spending reinforce each other. The result is a feedback […]

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has terminated a March 2024 consent order against JPMorgan Chase Bank that involved the bank’s trade surveillance program. The OCC issued the Order Terminating the Consent Order on March 30 and announced it in a Thursday (April 16) press release. The regulator said in its […]