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• PYMNTS | Datavault AI Plans CyberCatch Buy to Shield Against AI Attac… (pymnts.com)
  Datavault AI plans to add cyber risk mitigation by acquiring cybersecurity company CyberCatch for $94.5 million.
• CPI | California Bill to Cap Concert Ticket Resale Prices Dies in Sen… (pymnts.com)
  A California proposal to limit ticket markups failed to advance in the state Senate, a setback to those seeking to curb soaring prices.
• CPI | Six Banks Agree to $86.4 Million Deal in Mexican Bond Antitrust… (pymnts.com)
  An antitrust fight over trading in Mexico’s government debt market is concluding after six banks agreed to an $86.4 million settlement.
• CPI | ByteDance Reaches Hollywood Copyright Accord Over AI Tools (pymnts.com)
  ByteDance has reached an agreement with Hollywood’s leading film-industry trade group to tighten copyright protections around its AI tools.
• PYMNTS | Wispr Flow Raises $280 Million and Debuts Voice AI Model (pymnts.com)
  Voice artificial intelligence (AI) startup Wispr Flow is now a $2 billion company after raising $280 million.
• CPI | Court Backs Kansas in Nexstar-Tegna Antitrust Fight (pymnts.com)
  Nexstar must unwind board-level ties with Tegna, as the broadcaster violated a preliminary injunction in an antitrust dispute.
• CPI | Apple Makes Concessions on Ad Tracking After German Competition… (pymnts.com)
  Apple will change how it seeks consent for advertising-related data use in Europe, resolving a years-long German antitrust investigation.
• PYMNTS | AI Labs Stop Competing on Smarts and Start Competing on Price (pymnts.com)
  The cost of AI has fallen more than 280-fold since late 2022, and the cuts are still landing. Here's how that will impact you.
• PYMNTS | Synchrony Debuts ChatGPT Plugin to Promote Offers (pymnts.com)
  Consumer financial services company Synchrony will launch a ChatGPT plugin that will allow consumers to discover savings.
• PYMNTS | Patient Financing Becomes Part of the Healthcare Checkout (pymnts.com)
  Financing is becoming part of the payment infrastructure for healthcare categories where patients routinely face out-of-pocket costs.
• PYMNTS | US May Ban Nations From Pax Silica If They Join China AI Gro… (pymnts.com)
  The U.S. reportedly is preparing to tell countries that they will be excluded from a U.S.-led AI coalition if they join a Chinese-led one.
• PYMNTS | Groq Raises $350 Million to Fund AI Inference Goals (pymnts.com)
  The round was led by Disruptive, with planned participation from Nvidia, which signed a $20 billion licensing deal with Groq last year.
• PYMNTS | Freightos Shows the AI Freight Payoff Starts With Transactio… (pymnts.com)
  Freightos’ Q2 earnings show global freight pricing, booking and procurement are turning digital, transactional and machine ready.
• PYMNTS | Stripe Finalizes $7 Billion Deal for AI Firm OpenRouter (pymnts.com)
  Stripe has reportedly finalized its bid to acquire OpenRouter, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup, for more than $7 billion.
• PYMNTS | Higgsfield Raises $400 Million for AI Video Platform (pymnts.com)
  AI video generation platform Higgsfield is now valued at $5.4 billion after it raised $400 million in a Series B funding round.
• CPI | Antitrust and Intellectual Property Scholar Randal C. Picker Di… (pymnts.com)
  Randal C. Picker, a respected University of Chicago law professor known for his influential work on antitrust, competition policy and...
• PYMNTS | When AI Becomes the Travel Agent, Who Owns the Journey? (pymnts.com)
  Booking Holdings' Daniel Marovitz says consumer AI and autonomous agents can turn travel intent into a transaction.
• PYMNTS | Legal Departments Move From Testing AI to Governing It (pymnts.com)
  This week’s Prompt Economy: how legal AI agents are reviewing contracts, handling discovery and creating new liability questions.
• PYMNTS | Banks Built for Paychecks Meet the Cash Flow Generation (pymnts.com)
  New PYMNTS Intelligence data finds that as income becomes less predictable, banks may need to design products around cash flow.
• PYMNTS | 42% of Stablecoin Holders Want Crypto for Major Purchases (pymnts.com)
  Digital asset-linked cards could narrow the spending gap by connecting crypto holdings to the payment rails already in use.
• PYMNTS | Visa: Payment Choice Keeps High-Value Shoppers at Checkout (pymnts.com)
  Visa’s Michele Herron tells how merchants can recognize valuable shoppers, preserve loyalty and offer payment choices.
• PYMNTS | Retail Earnings Will Show What Stretched Consumers Protect (pymnts.com)
  Walmart, Target, TJX, Ross Stores, Home Depot and Lowe’s will reveal whether shoppers are pulling back broadly or shifting to value.
• PYMNTS | Credit Card Delinquencies Edge Up to 2.5% Across Top Banks (pymnts.com)
  The average credit card delinquency rate ticked up from 2.48% in June to 2.50% in July, below the pre-pandemic average of 2.68%.
• PYMNTS | SEC Rules Would Streamline Capital Formation for Digital Ass… (pymnts.com)
  The SEC proposed new rules that it said would create a clear framework for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets.
• PYMNTS | PointsKash Secures Capital Commitment After Crypto ATM Rollo… (pymnts.com)
  FinTech PointsKash has secured a strategic capital commitment of up to $100 million from Hawk Capital Advisors.
• PYMNTS | TikTok App Code Suggests Exploration of P2P Payment Feature (pymnts.com)
  TikTok is reportedly exploring a feature that would enable peer-to-peer payments between users via direct messages.
• PYMNTS | Currency Just Became Treasury’s Newest Superpower (pymnts.com)
  The cross-border payments prize is control, giving corporate treasury power over what currency money becomes after it crosses a border.
• PYMNTS | Kraken Brings Multi-Asset Debit Card to US Market (pymnts.com)
  The Krak Card allows customers to store money across more than 600 currencies and assets and earn up to 2% cashback.
• PYMNTS | eCommerce Takes 17.1% of Retail Sales Amid Online Growth (pymnts.com)
  New Census Bureau data show eCommerce is gaining share because online sales are expanding faster than retail overall.
• PYMNTS | Large Holders Pour $2.75 Billion into Bitcoin After Months o… (pymnts.com)
  After months of selling bitcoin, large holders have bought about 43,000 of the coins over the past 60 days.
• PYMNTS | Dead Airline’s Emails Just Became a $10 Million AI Prize (pymnts.com)
  Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines’ internal records, paying $10 million for emails, Teams messages and decades of data.
• CPI | Papa John’s Wins Final Approval for $5 Million No-Poach Settlem… (pymnts.com)
  Papa John’s secured final court approval of a settlement resolving allegations that it limited workers’ ability to move between restaurants.
• PYMNTS | Citi Debuts New Custody Tools for Faster Settlements (pymnts.com)
  Citi said that Custody+ marks a shift from a standardized and traditional custody model to a modular ecosystem of solutions.
• CPI | Apple Revamps EU App Store Rules in Deal With Regulators (pymnts.com)
  Apple is overhauling the commercial rules governing apps in the European Union after negotiations over the bloc’s competition rules.
• CPI | South Korean Prosecutors Raid Conglomerate Over Alleged Stock M… (pymnts.com)
  South Korean prosecutors raided offices of Ssangbangul Group over allegations that the conglomerate's shares were manipulated.
• PYMNTS | Cash App and MoonPay Team to Offer Crypto Purchases (pymnts.com)
  MoonPay says it is the first and only platform offering Cash App Pay for digital asset purchases to eligible U.S. customers.
• CPI | Andreessen Horowitz Faces Justice Department Antitrust Scrutiny… (pymnts.com)
  The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz over concerns its governing partners hold board positions at competing AI firms.
• CPI | Disney Sues FCC Over ABC Licenses Over Broadcast Regulation (pymnts.com)
  Disney sued the Federal Communications Commission, escalating a confrontation over the government's power to review broadcast licenses.
• PYMNTS | Robot Orders Surge to $622 Million as Earnings Follow (pymnts.com)
  Robot orders climbed to $622 million last quarter, and the manufacturers behind them are cashing in as demands keeps growing.
• PYMNTS | Rates Mean Forecasting Errors Have a Real Price Tag for CFOs (pymnts.com)
  Economists expect the Federal Reserve to hold rates steady through year-end, changing the economics of treasury and corporate cash.
• PYMNTS | Visa and Mastercard Join Rain’s Agentic Commerce Coalition (pymnts.com)
  Stablecoin payments infrastructure company Rain has formed a group to promote development of agentic AI commerce.
• PYMNTS | Crypto Trade Group Backs Custodia’s Supreme Court Bid (pymnts.com)
  The Blockchain Association is urging the Supreme Court to take up Custodia Bank’s fight for access to the Federal Reserve’s payment system.
• PYMNTS | Walmart Investors Hang Hopes on Retail Media as Sales Cool (pymnts.com)
  Walmart’s investors are counting on the company’s ad business to drive profits as same-store sales growth has cooled.
• PYMNTS | The GENIUS Act Gives Stablecoins a Corporate Cash Audition (pymnts.com)
  The question for corporate finance is whether the GENIUS Act framework can make them credible enough to hold cash, not just move it.
• PYMNTS | Costco Seeks Regulatory Approval for Multiyear Medicare Plan (pymnts.com)
  Costco plans to start offering a Medicare plan and other senior-focused insurance products over the coming years.
• PYMNTS | Visa Seeks New Stablecoin Partner After Mastercard Buys BVNK (pymnts.com)
  Visa is reportedly searching for a new stablecoin settlement partner that offers multi-regional licensing capabilities.
• PYMNTS | Checkr Buys Truv to Expand Verification for Mortgage, Govern… (pymnts.com)
  Checkr has expanded its verification platform by acquiring Truv, a provider of income, employment and asset verification.
• PYMNTS | Monzo Chair Departs Following Last Year's Shareholder Backla… (pymnts.com)
  Monzo’s chairman is reportedly departing the British neobank months after shareholders lobbied for his removal.
• PYMNTS | Apple Says Antitrust Issues Are Hurting Services Business (pymnts.com)
  Apple says antitrust battles around its App Store are weighing on its services business in a recent SEC filing.
• PYMNTS | Malachyte Turns Spotify’s Skip Signal Into Merchants’ Agenti… (pymnts.com)
  Malachyte CEO Sidd Motwani discusses how merchants can build a real-time storefront and an edge with the AI agents poised to shop it.