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• PYMNTS | Splitit and 1stMILE Unlock Card-Linked Auto Repair Installme… (pymnts.com)
  Automotive service providers that use 1stMILE’s automotive commerce platform can now offer customers Splitit’s POS installment payments.
• PYMNTS | Social Engineering Scam Breaches Levi Strauss Company Files (pymnts.com)
  Levi Strauss & Co. has disclosed that an unauthorized third party accessed company files through a social engineering scam.
• PYMNTS | Wall Street’s New Cybersecurity Threat Starts With a Phone C… (pymnts.com)
  In newest wave of cyberattacks, scammers are impersonating IT help desks and stealing credentials with phone calls to employees.
• PYMNTS | Airbnb Says AI Is Driving Faster Growth and Better Margins (pymnts.com)
  Airbnb beat expectations in Q2 and raised guidance as executives said AI-powered product improvements are accelerating bookings.
• PYMNTS | PetSmart Used AI to Drive a 22% Lift in Salon Bookings (pymnts.com)
  An AI system now decides what offer each of PetSmart's 80 million loyalty members sees and when, resulting in a 22% lift in salon bookings.
• PYMNTS | Instacart Retailers Cut Fees to Woo Cash-Strapped Shoppers (pymnts.com)
  Affordability is one of the biggest opportunities to accelerate online grocery adoption, Instacart CEO and Chairperson Chris Rogers said.
• PYMNTS | DraftKings’ Prediction Markets Push Reshapes Its Growth Stra… (pymnts.com)
  DraftKings is positioning prediction markets as an incremental growth engine and a central piece of its broader sports “super app” strategy.
• PYMNTS | Live Commerce Platform Whatnot Raises $545 Million (pymnts.com)
  Whatnot announced it has raised $545 million in a Series G funding round to grow its live commerce platform.
• PYMNTS | BNPL Users Want More Choice and Are Willing to Pay for It (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence finds that BNPL users would pay interest to access longer repayment terms, indicating growing demand for flexibility.
• PYMNTS | Enova CEO Says Better Data, Not AI, Will Decide Who Gets Cre… (pymnts.com)
  Enova CEO Steve Cunningham says the Grasshopper acquisition is about creating a path from short-term credit to payments and deposits.
• PYMNTS | Splitit CEO Says Card-Linked Payments Can Save AI Sales (pymnts.com)
  Card-linked installments help prevent payment failures in agentic AI commerce, Splitit CEO Nandan Sheth writes in a new PYMNTS eBook.
• PYMNTS | Consumer Expectations Jump 4.1 Points as Optimism Lags (pymnts.com)
  Consumer sentiment about the economy improved in July, but confidence in personal finances rose much more slowly.
• PYMNTS | Financial Firms Put AI to Work Across 27 Tasks, Study Finds (pymnts.com)
  The financial sector leads healthcare by 17 percentage points in the share of surveyed tasks reaching high AI adoption.
• CPI | Trump Pushes Back on AI Rules as Congress Weighs Tighter Contro… (pymnts.com)
  President Donald Trump is pushing back against efforts in Congress to impose new controls on artificial intelligence, arguing that...
• CPI | Warren Raises Antitrust Concerns Over Private Home Listings (pymnts.com)
  A partnership between Compass International Holdings and Midwest Real Estate Data is drawing heightened scrutiny in Washington, with...
• CPI | PlayStation Antitrust Cases Put Closed Console Stores Under Scr… (pymnts.com)
  A series of legal challenges to Sony Group Corp.’s PlayStation business is putting a longstanding feature of the videogame industry under...
• CPI | Antitrust Challenge to GLP-1 Distribution Deals Falls Short in … (pymnts.com)
  A lawsuit seeking to cast pharmaceutical companies’ telehealth partnerships as an unlawful restraint on the market for customized...
• PYMNTS | AI Helped British Airways Reach Its Best On-Time Performance (pymnts.com)
  British Airways hit an 86% on-time rate from Heathrow in early 2025, its best on record. CEO Sean Doyle credits AI tools.
• PYMNTS | Bilt Expands Hospitality Offering to Include Travel Advisers (pymnts.com)
  Bilt OS for Hospitality consolidates some of the tools travel advisers are using with some not available in market into one operating system
• PYMNTS | OpenAI Picks Up AI Presentation Creator NextSlide (pymnts.com)
  OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that uses AI to help workers develop presentations, founder Ahmed Beshry announced.
• PYMNTS | More Than 100 Crypto Projects Have Folded in 2026 (pymnts.com)
  More than 100 crypto projects have either shuttered, filed for bankruptcy or gone dark for good so far this year.
• PYMNTS | Singapore Pledges to Use AI to Protect Workers' Jobs (pymnts.com)
  Singapore is benefiting from the rapid growth of AI. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong wants to make sure its people are as well.
• PYMNTS | Cursor Brand Name May Not Survive SpaceX Acquisition (pymnts.com)
  SpaceX’s acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor could be soon, and workers learned that the Cursor brand name would likely be phased out.
• PYMNTS | Brazil Tells Crypto Exchanges to Delay Overseas Transfers (pymnts.com)
  Brazil's new fraud-prevention rules require cryptocurrency exchanges to delay some overseas transfers by 24 hours.
• PYMNTS | Jury Duty Scams Mark Latest Evolution of Impersonation Fraud (pymnts.com)
  Impersonation scammers have a new target: people afraid of being punished for missing jury duty. These scams have surged in the Tampa area.
• PYMNTS | OpenAI Halts New Model Rollout Due to Security Worries (pymnts.com)
  OpenAI is pausing internal activity related to a new artificial intelligence model, Astra, due to security concerns.
• PYMNTS | Senate CLARITY Act Draft Seeks Stablecoin, DeFi Compromise (pymnts.com)
  Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., moved to set up a procedural vote on the CLARITY Act when lawmakers return in mid-September.
• PYMNTS | Simon Property Group Leverages Live Events to Drive Growth (pymnts.com)
  Simon Property Group, saw the results from its premium outlets and other destinations remain strong during the second quarter.
• PYMNTS | inKind Raises $414 Million to Fuel Restaurant Commerce Platf… (pymnts.com)
  inKind secured another $414 million in financing for its restaurant commerce platform, bringing its total raised to more than $1.2 billion.
• PYMNTS | Upwork Navigates Change as AI Reshapes Freelance Demand (pymnts.com)
  Upwork is remaking its business around a labor market in which AI is eliminating some lower-complexity freelance assignments.
• PYMNTS | Synchrony, PayPal Bring Special Financing to Mastercard Netw… (pymnts.com)
  Synchrony and PayPal now offer PayPal Credit Card cardholders special financing everywhere Mastercard is accepted.
• PYMNTS | Wells Fargo Brings the Stablecoin Fight Inside the Bank (pymnts.com)
  The bank’s tokenized deposits promise programmable, around-the-clock corporate payments while keeping the money within regulated banking.
• PYMNTS | Cybersecurity M&A Spree Maps the Next Attack Surface (pymnts.com)
  Companies are on a cybersecurity buying spree, but the billions of dollars in deal volume may be less revealing than what firms are buying.
• PYMNTS | Nvidia Forms Financial Partnerships to Fuel AI Factory Boom (pymnts.com)
  Nvidia said it has partnered with six financial institutions to mobilize third-party capital for the buildout of AI infrastructure.
• CPI | California AG Defends Challenge to $110B Paramount-Warner Deal (pymnts.com)
  California Attorney General Rob Bonta is defending a multistate effort to stop Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of...
• CPI | Fox Gives DOJ More Time to Review $22 Billion Roku Acquisition (pymnts.com)
  Fox Corporation has agreed to give the U.S. Department of Justice additional time to review its proposed $22 billion acquisition of Roku...
• PYMNTS | Brazil Signals Surging Confidence in Plan to Export Pix Glob… (pymnts.com)
  Brazil’s central bank reportedly sounds more certain than in the past that it will link its instant payment system, Pix, to other countries.
• PYMNTS | Crypto Stocks Suffer as Investors Send AI Soaring (pymnts.com)
  Investors and hedge funds are reportedly pivoting from cryptocurrency stocks to invest in artificial intelligence (AI).
• CPI | Early-Decision Admissions Face Antitrust Test as Colleges Lose … (pymnts.com)
  A legal challenge to early admissions is going to court, raising the prospect that the practice could be examined under competition law.
• PYMNTS | Credit Card Competition Act Gains New Senate Support (pymnts.com)
  Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, have signed on as co-sponsors of the bill.
• CPI | Crypto Regulation Push Raises Stakes for Competition With US Ba… (pymnts.com)
  An overhaul of crypto regulation is moving toward a Senate vote, intensifying a political fight over President Trump’s ties to crypto.
• CPI | South Korean Petrochemical Firms Face Price-Fixing Probe as Ind… (pymnts.com)
  The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office searched seven company offices, including Hanwha Solutions, LG Chem and Aekyung Chemical.
• CPI | Safe Harbor’s $1.5 Billion MarineMax Deal Could Draw Competitio… (pymnts.com)
  A potential acquisition of MarineMax by Safe Harbor Marinas could highlight competitive implications of consolidation in boating.
• PYMNTS | Monday.com and Airbnb Are Putting Numbers Behind AI’s ROI (pymnts.com)
  Monday.com says AI now drives 17% of its new revenue. Airbnb says its AI assistant has cut support costs 16% per booking.
• PYMNTS | MoneyLion Vets Launch Wealth Management Platform Astraeus (pymnts.com)
  Two veterans of mobile banking firm MoneyLion have launched Astraeus, an infrastructure platform for wealth management companies.
• PYMNTS | Airlines Use AI to Price Seats and Keep Travelers Close (pymnts.com)
  Airlines are using AI for everything from ticket prices and loyalty offers to the text that explains a delayed flight.
• PYMNTS | Coinbase CEO Says Crypto Has Improved Financial Inclusion (pymnts.com)
  Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in a Sunday (Aug. 9) post on X that cypto “doesn’t get enough credit” for improving financial access.
• PYMNTS | DOJ Healthcare Fraud Crackdown Raises the Compliance Bar (pymnts.com)
  As regulators become better at finding suspicious signals inside healthcare data, the advantage belongs to firms that can do the same.
• PYMNTS | GameStop CEO Could Withdraw $56 Billion Bid on eBay (pymnts.com)
  GameStop is reportedly considering withdrawing its $56 billion proposal to acquire eBay and instead proposing a partnership.
• PYMNTS | Rakuten Turns Profit as Ecosystem Revenue Hits Record High (pymnts.com)
  Rakuten Group achieved its first quarterly profit in six years in the second quarter as it saw revenue growth across its three segments.