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A Cloudflare outage Tuesday (Nov. 18) shut down multiple high-profile websites.
The internet infrastructure provider has pointed to a “spike in unusual traffic” as the culprit behind the trouble, per multiple media reports. The outage has impacted a number of artificial intelligence (AI) services, including ChatGPT, as well as social media platform X.
“We do not yet know the cause of...
The designer who helped create Apple’s iPhone Air has reportedly left the company.
Abidur Chowdhury, an industrial designer, recently stepped down from his role at Apple to take a job with an artificial intelligence (AI) startup, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Nov. 17), citing people familiar with the matter.
Chowdhury was chosen to introduce the new iPhone Air at an event in...
The recent cryptocurrency downturn has reportedly erased more than $1 trillion from the market.
That’s according to a report Tuesday (Nov. 18) from the Financial Times (FT), which cites information from data provider CoinGecko. The market value of the 18,000-plus coins monitored by the company has plunged 25% since a record high last month, wiping out roughly $1.2 trillion from their...
Watch more: From Scroll to Store: How Ulta Beauty Is Connecting Commerce, Content and Community
Social discovery moves at the speed of trends. Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping how people search and buy online. Yet brick-and-mortar remains the heart of beauty.
Ulta Beauty sits at the center of all three forces, building a connected commerce strategy designed for consumers who...
While 2024 may have been governed by the economic and strategic priorities of the chief financial officer, 2025 is putting greater accountability at the feet of CEOs.
Decisions around liquidity, mergers and acquisitions, compliance and digital innovation no longer live strictly in the finance silo; they are anchored in the CEO’s capacity to draw a new playbook for growth and resilience...
Mastercard is expanding its Crypto Credential to self-custody wallets in collaboration with Polygon Labs and Mercuryo.
This expansion introduces “verified, username-style aliases that replace long wallet addresses,” the companies said in a news release Tuesday (Nov. 18).
Mastercard picked Polygon as the first blockchain network to power this launch, pointing to its speed, reliability,...
Credit unions are discovering that the youngest generation in their membership base is not simply digital-first. They are digital-fluid, moving between screens and branches with ease, and they expect financial partners to keep up.
That shift is producing a new set of pressures for an industry that has historically relied on long-term loyalty.
The PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Digital-...
Watch more: Digital Shift: Citi’s David Griffiths
Citi is deepening its use of artificial intelligence (AI) across the enterprise with the launch of an upgraded Stylus Workspaces, an internal productivity platform designed to automate multistep workflows and enable more autonomous execution across its operations.
Chief Technology Officer David Griffiths told PYMNTS the initiative marks...
From early chatbots to newer generative models, artificial intelligence (AI) has been a key disrupter of the digital economy. However, these models still rely on human input. Now a new iteration points the way toward the future of eCommerce. Agentic AI is an autonomous actor capable of moving value through this system with unprecedented speed.
AI-powered digital agents are more than just...
Watch more: Digital Shift: Marqeta’s Todd Pollak
According to Marqeta Chief Revenue Officer Todd Pollak, the future of payments is being built by ecosystems in which merchants and consumers drive change and flexible credentials are firmly in the mix.
As card usage rises and cash fades, several intermediaries, like delivery platforms, marketplaces and on-demand providers, now sit...