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A New Year brings new beginnings. For the B2B freight and logistics landscape, those new beginnings have been simmering in the background ever since President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, in combination with other macro factors, worked to upend the old assumptions underpinning much of the sector’s economics.
For much of the past year, rates across ocean, rail, last mile, and across...
Fiserv and Mastercard expanded their partnership to support agentic commerce, as payments companies move to establish how artificial intelligence systems can securely initiate and complete transactions on behalf of consumers.
Under the agreement, Fiserv will integrate Mastercard’s Agent Pay Acceptance Framework into its merchant acceptance infrastructure, enabling AI-initiated...
A federal court has approved a settlement in which Disney will pay $10 million in civil penalties to resolve allegations that it violated children’s privacy laws.
The case was brought by the Justice Department after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated the matter and negotiated a resolution with Disney, the Justice Department said in a Tuesday (Dec 30) press release.
The FTC...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to reshape commercial real estate—not through futuristic smart buildings, but by automating the manual back-office work that underpins valuations, underwriting, leasing and property operations.
Morgan Stanley estimates that AI could automate about 37% of tasks across the sector, unlocking as much as $34 billion in efficiency gains by 2030. As...
Commerce Bancshares, the parent company of Commerce Bank, has completed its previously announced acquisition of FineMark Holdings, the parent company of FineMark National Bank...
For much of the past decade, artificial intelligence has been concentrated in the cloud. Large models trained and run in centralized data centers have powered chatbots, enterprise tools and consumer applications, but that approach comes with trade-offs. Cloud dependence introduces latency, increases infrastructure costs and requires user data to move across networks. As AI becomes embedded into...
Saks Global Executive Chairman Richard Baker has assumed the additional role of CEO amid reports that the luxury retail company is considering bankruptcy.
Baker succeeds Marc Metrick, who had been CEO since 2015 and stepped down to pursue new opportunities, Saks Global said in a Friday (Jan. 2) press release.
Baker will oversee Saks Global’s luxury retail operations, which include Saks...
OpenAI is reportedly improving its audio artificial intelligence (AI) models because it expects users of future personal AI devices to communicate with them through voice commands rather than via a screen.
Currently, the company’s large language model (LLM) that powers the audio version of ChatGPT is less accurate and slower to respond than those powering the text-based versions, The...
PYMNTS Intelligence has long spotlighted the value that real-time payments bring to consumer disbursements and emergency use cases. Beyond those use cases, faster funding is steadily becoming part of how businesses think about cash flow, settlement certainty and liquidity timing.
Recent PYMNTS reporting shows CFOs increasingly value real-time settlement not for speed alone, but for the...
The cryptocurrency industry is turning over a new leaf in the New Year. And this new leaf comes with new laws.
As of Jan. 1, 2026, Americans should have the right to crypto ATM refunds in Colorado; while in New York, the digital assets-focused Article 12 and other 2022 Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) will have been signed into law. Nationally in the U.S., the Federal...