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• PYMNTS | Amazon’s Alexa+ Aims to Tackle Brazil’s Many Languages (pymnts.com)
  Amazon says its Alexa+ voice assistant is now available to customers in Brazil and that it understands Brazil’s multiple languages.
• PYMNTS | Citi Predicts Fed Rate Cuts Will Come Later Than Expected (pymnts.com)
  Citigroup changed its expectations for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut, Reuters reported Thursday (June 18).
• PYMNTS | Zelis Picks AWS to Automate Healthcare Pricing and Payments (pymnts.com)
  Healthcare technology solutions provider Zelis selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider.
• PYMNTS | Melio Launches Agent-Powered B2B Network to Pay Suppliers (pymnts.com)
  Melio has launched an agent-powered B2B payment network that enables buyers to pay suppliers through their accounts receivable (AR) systems.
• PYMNTS | Amazon and Walmart Battle to Become Retail’s Data Broker (pymnts.com)
  Amazon and Walmart are competing across advertising, technology, memberships and data-driven services as both companies seek new growth.
• PYMNTS | Kroger Sales Creep up 1% as Shoppers Grow More Selective (pymnts.com)
  Kroger’s revenues ticked up slightly last quarter as the supermarket giant’s shoppers felt increased financial strain.
• PYMNTS | FedNow X-Border Plan Tests Real-Time Payments Infrastructure (pymnts.com)
  The Federal Reserve’s proposed amendments would allow intermediaries to participate in FedNow real-time payment transactions.
• PYMNTS | Deluxe Aims to Expand Payments Business With Celero Acquisit… (pymnts.com)
  Payments and data company Deluxe is set to acquire small business-focused payments solution firm Celero Commerce.
• PYMNTS | FinTech Finds a New Category in AI’s Untracked Costs (pymnts.com)
  AI agents bill by the token, not the seat. Most enterprise finance teams have no infrastructure to track that.
• PYMNTS | Aldi Makes $9 Billion Bid to Become Biggest US Grocer (pymnts.com)
  German grocer Aldi is reportedly launching a $9 billion expansion plan in the United States amid rising food prices.
• PYMNTS | Dream Raises $260M for Government-Focused AI Cybersecurity (pymnts.com)
  Dream, an artificial intelligence and cybersecurity company for governments, raised $260 million at a $3 billion valuation.
• PYMNTS | Black-Box AI Forces CFOs to Write a New Audit Playbook (pymnts.com)
  As AI becomes embedded in financial decision-making, the audit trail is evolving from a record of what happened to proof of why it happened.
• PYMNTS | Baseten Nears $1.5 Billion Funding Round Amid Inference Dema… (pymnts.com)
  Baseten reportedly is finalizing a $1.5 billion fundraising round to support its inference software layer for open-source AI models.
• PYMNTS | Salesforce Debuts Agentic Tool to Automate Financial Busywork (pymnts.com)
  Salesforce introduced new agentic AI tools for financial advisers that will roll out through the remainder of the year.
• PYMNTS | Crypto’s Future May Depend on Lawyers Thinking Like Operators (pymnts.com)
  Manatt’s Mike Katz shares what he learned leaving the law firm conference room and sitting at the crypto operating table.
• PYMNTS | PYMNTS Panel Concludes Credit Unions Face an AI Trust Test (pymnts.com)
  Velera and Rubrik executives say proving to credit union members and workers that agentic AI can be used responsibly is a challenge.
• PYMNTS | Just 30% of Financial Firms Use AI for Customer Retention (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence finds that enterprises are moving in the same direction on AI, but each sector is solving a different problem first.
• PYMNTS | Digital Shopping Evolves as AI Agents Enter the Equation (pymnts.com)
  Digital shopping is evolving as merchants view AI agents as an opportunity, but most lack the tools to track agent-driven sales.
• PYMNTS | Global Digital Shopping Index: Merchant Edition (pymnts.com)
  Global Digital Shopping Index: Merchant Edition - A PYMNTS Intelligence Report commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions
• PYMNTS | The New BNPL Pitch Is Less Buy Now Than Breathe Easier (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence finds BNPL is becoming a budgeting mechanism as consumers use installment financing to smooth cash flow.
• PYMNTS | Finastra Sells Core Banking Business to Focus on Payments (pymnts.com)
  Private capital asset manager Pollen Street plans to acquire Finastra’s global core banking software business, Universal Banking.
• PYMNTS | NatWest CEO: AI Will Take Over Some Existing Banking Roles (pymnts.com)
  NatWest CEO Paul Thwaite said AI is going to change the bank’s workforce, though he didn’t say whether it would reduce the size.
• PYMNTS | Leaked EU Proposal Plans Regulatory Relief for Banks (pymnts.com)
  The EU is preparing to make it easier for banks to move funds between EU member states and give banks capital relief on mortgages and loans.
• PYMNTS | Prediction Market Kalshi Eyes IPO as Revenue Triples to $2 B… (pymnts.com)
  Kalshi has about tripled its annualized revenue since November and is in informal talks with investments banks about an eventual IPO.
• CPI | FERC Orders Grid Operators to Fast-Track Data Center Connections (pymnts.com)
  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has ordered six of the nation's largest electric grid operators to accelerate the process for...
• PYMNTS | Soaring AI Costs Push Enterprise Buyers to Chinese Models (pymnts.com)
  Rising AI fees has created an opening for Chinese AI labs that are able to charge less due to their more efficient models.
• PYMNTS | Instacart Reports AI Agent Drives Bigger Grocery Orders (pymnts.com)
  Instacart has begun rolling out an artificial intelligence assistant that puts together a personalized grocery cart for shoppers.
• PYMNTS | Healthcare AI Has Left the Lab. Now Comes the Hard Part. (pymnts.com)
  Healthcare AI is becoming a financial issue as lenders, insurers, payment companies and FinTechs get pulled into the same compliance web.
• PYMNTS | Millennials’ Payments Playbook: Cards Core, Digital Options … (pymnts.com)
  An upcoming PYMNTS Intelligence report finds millennials still have one foot in the card slot and the other in the digital wallet.
• PYMNTS | 53% of Businesses Plan RTP Adoption as Payment Habits Shift (pymnts.com)
  Real-time rails outperform older methods, but adoption depends on turning familiar workflows into faster ones.
• PYMNTS | Polymarket Reportedly Paid Creators to Promote Fake Wins (pymnts.com)
  Polymarket paid content creators to film themselves making fake trades and scoring phony wins, according to The Wall Street Journal.
• PYMNTS | Google's Nobel-Winning AI Expert Departing for Anthropic (pymnts.com)
  John Jumper, a Nobel Prize-winning Google DeepMind artificial intelligence scientist, is leaving the company for Anthropic.
• PYMNTS | Turkish FinTech Midas Targets Consumer Payments Business (pymnts.com)
  Midas has applied to Turkey’s central bank for an electronic money institution license, hoping to offer digital consumer payment products.
• PYMNTS | Brands Employing AI-Created Influencers on Social Media (pymnts.com)
  Brands have begun using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media, according to an investigation by The Guardian.
• PYMNTS | White House Says Anthropic No Longer Security Threat (pymnts.com)
  President Donald Trump has reconsidered his stance on Anthropic as a national security threat, saying it had “behaved very responsibly.”
• CPI | UK Appeals Court Overturns Tribunal Decision in Long-Running Pf… (pymnts.com)
  The Court of Appeal has ruled that the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal improperly remade a competition-law decision against Pfizer...
• CPI | Rhode Island Approves New Rules on Lawyer Use of AI (pymnts.com)
  Rhode Island has become the latest state to establish formal rules governing how attorneys may use generative artificial intelligence...
• CPI | Federal Judge Dismisses Antitrust Claims Against YachtWorld Own… (pymnts.com)
  A federal judge in Florida has dismissed an antitrust lawsuit accusing Boats Group, the operator of major online boating marketplaces...
• CPI | Southern Glazer’s, FTC Seek Pause in Price Discrimination Case … (pymnts.com)
  Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits and the Federal Trade Commission have asked a federal court to temporarily halt litigation in a closely...
• CPI | Telecom Argentina Wins Conditional Approval for Telefónica Acqu… (pymnts.com)
  Telecom Argentina has received conditional approval from Argentina’s competition authorities to move forward with its acquisition of...
• CPI | Disney and Universal File Antitrust Lawsuit Against AI Image Ge… (pymnts.com)
  Entertainment giants Disney and Universal have jointly filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Midjourney, alleging that...
• CPI | Russian Antitrust Watchdog Seeks Fuel Pricing Data From Moscow … (pymnts.com)
  Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has launched a review of fuel pricing practices at two major gas station operators in the Moscow...
• PYMNTS | Banks Replace Real Customers With AI Clones for Product Test… (pymnts.com)
  JPMorgan and U.S. Bank are among the institutions using AI-generated consumers to compress timelines and sidestep the compliance friction.
• PYMNTS | The Corporate Road Warrior Is Back With a Bigger Mission (pymnts.com)
  More than a category of corporate spending, business travel has become a leading indicator of where global commerce is heading next.
• PYMNTS | Fed Governor Casts Tokenization as New Dollar Channel (pymnts.com)
  Christopher J. Waller's remarks detailed the purpose of the meeting: to bring together different perspectives on the dollar’s global role.
• PYMNTS | California Consumers Sue Gas Stations Over AI Price Fixing (pymnts.com)
  California consumers filed a proposed class-action suit alleging gas stations used an AI pricing tool to illegally inflate pump prices.
• PYMNTS | Meta Backs India's Cred and Hires Founder to Run WhatsApp (pymnts.com)
  Meta has invested $900 million in India’s Cred, valuing it at $4.5 billion, and hired its founder Kunal Shah to oversee WhatsApp.
• PYMNTS | Anchorage Digital Launches Tokenized Deposit Platform for Ba… (pymnts.com)
  Anchorage Digital launched a new tokenized deposit infrastructure aimed at enabling banks to offer around-the-clock settlement.
• PYMNTS | Aspirin or Vitamin? How AI Is Rewriting How Clients Buy (pymnts.com)
  Every investor has asked the question: Is what you’re building an aspirin or a vitamin? The latest edition of What’s Next in Payments dives…