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Ahead of CES 2026 next week in Las Vegas, several consumer electronics manufacturers are previewing hardware products built on specific, identifiable artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The devices span wearables, mixed-reality systems, home security, appliances and robotics, but each relies on concrete combinations of cameras, sensors, onboard processors and AI models designed to capture...
Microsoft’s CEO has reportedly undertaken major changes to bolster the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) business.
As the Financial Times (FT) reported Tuesday (Dec. 30), those changes include an overhaul of Microsoft’s senior leadership as Satya Nadella looks to keep the company ahead in the AI race following the restructuring of its partnership with OpenAI.
The chief executive...
Walmart’s app and website reportedly suffered an outage Tuesday (Dec. 30), affecting thousands of customers.
More than 6,500 shoppers reported trouble accessing the retailer’s eCommerce services, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing data from outage tracking site Downdetector. Close to three-quarters of users said they had problems with Walmart’s mobile app, while the...
British consumers reportedly pulled back on their debit and credit card spending this year.
It marks the first decline in card spending since the COVID pandemic, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Dec. 30), citing data from Barclays which showed consumers were still willing to shell out for small luxuries and experiences.
The value of card spending dipped 0.2% between 2024 and 2025, the...
Meta is acquiring Singapore-based startup Manus to boost its artificial intelligence (AI) agent offerings.
“Manus is already serving the daily needs of millions of users and businesses worldwide,” Meta said in its announcement Monday (Dec. 29).
“It launched its first general AI agent earlier this year and has already served more than 147 trillion tokens and created more than 80 million...
The corporate back office is undergoing a renovation, and accounts payable is at its center.
For decades, AP has lived in the shadows of corporate finance. Its success was necessary, unglamorous and relentlessly operational, measured in invoices processed, checks mailed, and exceptions resolved with minimal disruption.
When innovation arrived, it often meant incremental automation...
Small- to medium-sized businesses are preparing for another year shaped by economic pressure, uneven consumer demand and tighter margins, forcing a more disciplined approach to how they operate and grow.
Jonathan Aguilar, associate vice president of Partner Experience at Maverick Payments, told PYMNTS in an interview that the challenges have pushed SMBs to reassess priorities rather...
Credit limits have traditionally been treated as a mechanical feature of card programs: a numeric ceiling determined by algorithms, credit scores and internal risk thresholds.
But new findings from the report, “Credit Limits: Understanding Requests, Denials and the Consumer Experience,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and Elan Credit Card collaboration, suggests that for consumers, credit...
This year, artificial intelligence shifted from assisting to acting.
Agentic AI, systems that can plan multistep work, call tools and APIs, and execute tasks with limited human supervision, moved from prototypes into enterprise roadmaps. For banking and payments leaders, that matters because autonomy turns every workflow into a risk decision and every risk decision into a business...
White-collar layoffs at firms like McKinsey and Amazon grab headlines for their implications about artificial intelligence and tariff pressures replacing plum jobs. But there’s another canary in the economic coal mine. What PYMNTS Intelligence calls the Labor Economy® — the roughly 60 million warehouse packers, delivery drivers, home health aides, construction workers, groundskeepers, janitors,...