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• PYMNTS | 61% of Consumers Would Consider AI-Recommended Financing (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence finds AI can help shoppers compare Pay-Later financing, but consumers want control over the final decision.
• PYMNTS | Credit Unions Recast Branches From Transactions to Advice (pymnts.com)
  Credit unions are rebuilding branches around advice and relationships as digital channels absorb routine transactions once handled in perso…
• PYMNTS | Nvidia Weighs Investment in Round Valuing Mercor at $20 Bill… (pymnts.com)
  Mercor is a data labeling provider that supplies data that helps the chip designer develop open-source models.
• PYMNTS | Hyundai Cuts Crash Test Review Time by 90% With AI (pymnts.com)
  Hyundai's gains rest on a data foundation the automotive firm started building in 2019, well before generative AI went mainstream.
• PYMNTS | OpenAI CFO Tells Employees Public Debut Coming by 2027 (pymnts.com)
  OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027,” if not sooner, Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told employees during an all-hands meeting.
• PYMNTS | Carvana Shares Rebound as Mark Walter Selloff Fears Ease (pymnts.com)
  Carvana shares climbed as much as 9.3% after dropping 14% when a report said billionaire Mark Walter wouldn’t be able to sell his stake.
• PYMNTS | Home Depot and Lowe’s Battle Over the Maintenance Economy (pymnts.com)
  The latest earnings and commentary from Lowe’s and The Home Depot show their most valuable customer is the professional.
• PYMNTS | OpenAI Halts Frontier AI Training After Cybersecurity Alarm (pymnts.com)
  OpenAI is slowing model development, while Mark Zuckerberg argued the real danger isn’t AI itself but concentrating it in a few companies.
• PYMNTS | Rain CEO: Merchants Get Stablecoin Payments Without Knowing … (pymnts.com)
  More than 100,000 merchants currently receive stablecoins payments without realizing what they are, Rain CEO Farooq Malik said.
• PYMNTS | Boston Fed Economists: Tariffs Not Main Cause of 2025 Inflat… (pymnts.com)
  Tariffs alone cannot explain the persistence of 3% inflation in 2025, three Federal Reserve Bank of Boston economists wrote in an article.
• PYMNTS | FTC Warns Businesses Against Using Personalized Pricing (pymnts.com)
  Federal regulators are warning that companies using consumers’ personal data to set prices could be violating the law.
• PYMNTS | Cantor Fitzgerald Enters Prediction Markets Space With Kalshi (pymnts.com)
  Cantor Fitzgerald is launching trading for prediction markets to provide institutional clients with access to block trading via Kalshi.
• CPI | FTC Targets Personalized Pricing as Algorithms Reshape Retail (pymnts.com)
  The FTC is moving to clarify how existing consumer-protection laws apply when companies dynamically charge customers different prices.
• CPI | UK Watchdog Opens Pricing Probes Into Trainline, Virgin Atlanti… (pymnts.com)
  The UK is investigating Trainline, Virgin Atlantic and RED Driving School over concerns that customers were not shown mandatory charges.
• CPI | Judge Approves Google’s $700 Million Play Store Settlement (pymnts.com)
  Google’s $700 million settlement over its Play Store won final approval from a federal judge, resolving a yearslong legal fight.
• PYMNTS | Robinhood CEO Calls For Expanded Tokenized Stock Access (pymnts.com)
  Robinhood CEO and Co-Founder Vlad Tenev posted an article on X Tuesday (Aug. 18) calling on U.S. policymakers to update securities laws.
• PYMNTS | World Labs CEO Says US Must Set Good Example on AI (pymnts.com)
  Artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Fei-Fei Li is reportedly warning that backlash to the tech threatens global technological advancement.
• PYMNTS | Target Touts Jump in Traffic From AI Platforms as Sales Climb (pymnts.com)
  Target is seeing sales tick up amid a growth in digital traffic from artificial intelligence platforms, according to earnings results.
• PYMNTS | Datavault Pushes Into Banking Realm With BankWyse Acquisition (pymnts.com)
  Data monetization and real-world asset tokenization company Datavault AI is set to acquire Wyoming financial institution BankWyse.
• PYMNTS | Banks Target Repeat Checks That Drive Customers Away (pymnts.com)
  A FinCEN-observed SOLO pilot will test whether banks and FinTechs can reuse completed identity checks when customers open accounts.
• PYMNTS | Abnormal AI Expands OpenAI Partnership to Boost Cybersecurity (pymnts.com)
  Abnormal AI will expand its use of OpenAI to support its Behavioral AI products that stop cybersecurity attacks.
• PYMNTS | Monzo Steers Customers to Backup Bank Amid Technical Outage (pymnts.com)
  British neobank Monzo was sending customers to its backup bank Wednesday (Aug. 19) morning as it dealt with an outage.
• PYMNTS | How AI Is Changing Invoicing, Working Capital and Trade Fina… (pymnts.com)
  Firms like FedEx are using AI inside shipping trailers, but the bigger financial opportunity may emerge after the robot moves the box.
• PYMNTS | Interactive Brokers Taps Paysafe for LatAm Account Funding (pymnts.com)
  Interactive Brokers has integrated Paysafe’s SafetyPay to enable clients in Latin America to fund their accounts in local currencies.
• PYMNTS | Goldman: Entry-Level Workers More Vulnerable to AI Displacem… (pymnts.com)
  New Goldman Sachs research suggests industries with greater artificial intelligence (AI) exposure could be rethinking their hiring options.
• PYMNTS | FDA Weighs Clinician-Style Tests for AI Medical Devices (pymnts.com)
  The FDA is considering whether some generative AI medical devices should have to demonstrate competence in their intended clinical tasks.
• PYMNTS | Mexico Looks to Revive Pix-Like Instant Payments System Codi (pymnts.com)
  Mexico is launching a campaign to steer citizens from cash to digital payments. Part of the effort involves an attempt to rejuvenate Codi.
• PYMNTS | Amazon Eyes Sixfold Expansion of Drone Delivery Service (pymnts.com)
  Amazon hopes to offer drone deliveries in nearly 500 U.S. communities by year-end, a sixfold increase for Amazon’s Prime Air service.
• CPI | Massachusetts Forces Apartment Sales as Condition of $69 Billio… (pymnts.com)
  Massachusetts antitrust regulators are requiring two of the nation’s biggest apartment landlords to shed a pair of Boston residential...
• PYMNTS | WEX: Embedded Payments Are Easier to Launch Than to Scale (pymnts.com)
  WEX’s Eric Frankovic shares why scaling embedded payments across customers, markets and payment rails is where the real work begins.
• PYMNTS | Middle Market Growth Needs Credit That Moves With Inventory (pymnts.com)
  Goods and logistics companies simplify their payment operations as they grow, but there is a widening need for flexible credit.
• PYMNTS | Better AI Prompts Turn Consumer Experiments Into Habits (pymnts.com)
  Consumers are becoming more capable AI users, helping drive more frequent use across learning, writing, planning and other everyday tasks.
• PYMNTS | Customer Lifetime Value: How Issuers Drive Engagement, Loyal… (pymnts.com)
  New PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa DPS data shows how issuers can remove friction, improve retention and increase customer lifetime value.
• PYMNTS | Plaid Study Links Account Checks to Faster Fraud Detection (pymnts.com)
  Nearly half of firms can't detect fraud in real time or within minutes. But the bigger problem is how companies use the tools they have.
• PYMNTS | Walmart’s Grocery Lead Faces a Higher-Margin Test (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS data shows Walmart owns the weekly trip. Thursday’s results will show whether it can convert that edge into higher-margin sales.
• PYMNTS | Issuer Engagement Playbook: Erasing Friction Driving Engagem… (pymnts.com)
  The Issuer Engagement Playbook: Erasing Friction, Driving Engagement - A PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa DPS collaboration
• PYMNTS | Ross Posts Sales Jump as Shoppers Head to Off-Price Retailers (pymnts.com)
  Off-price retailer Ross Stores saw “robust” sales growth in the quarter as consumers sought prices lower than those of mainstream retailers.
• PYMNTS | CFTC Readies Own Crypto Market Rules if CLARITY Act Stalls (pymnts.com)
  If Congress doesn’t pass the CLARITY Act, the CFTC will establish a crypto asset market regime, CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig said.
• PYMNTS | Google Launches Preferred Source Button for Publisher Websit… (pymnts.com)
  Google has a new button that publishers can embed on their pages to enable readers to select them as a preferred source of information.
• PYMNTS | Banks Add Branches as Physical Networks Lift Digital Sales (pymnts.com)
  U.S. banks added a net 535 branches in 2025, interrupting a long contraction in the physical banking network.
• PYMNTS | Stripe and Ramp Are Betting on AI Traffic Controllers (pymnts.com)
  Stripe and Ramp are betting enterprises will spread work across multiple AI models, sending each task to whichever offers the best results.
• PYMNTS | Airbnb Tests AI Search After Automating 45% of Support (pymnts.com)
  Airbnb’s AI now resolves nearly 45% of customer inquiries. The company is also testing AI search and using AI to flag risky bookings.
• PYMNTS | Working Capital Is Becoming a Priced Portfolio for CFOs (pymnts.com)
  CFOs are getting closer to pricing receivables, inventory and payables as distinct financing problems rather than one blunt liquidity need.
• PYMNTS | AT&T Slashes AI Costs With Model Routers and Open Source (pymnts.com)
  AT&T cut the costs of coding and some other AI tasks by as much as 56% by using tools that route employees’ queries to cheaper models.
• PYMNTS | BEC Attack Hijacks Session Token to Steal Vendor Payments (pymnts.com)
  Cybersecurity firm TrendAI uncovered a scheme in which a victim was tricked into clicking on a link and was then able to reroute payments.
• PYMNTS | Anthropic Plans to Tweak Data Retention After Enterprise Con… (pymnts.com)
  Anthropic reportedly plans to modify the data retention policy it announced in June, letting companies use their own infrastructure.
• PYMNTS | AIibaba Focuses on Agentic Commerce as AI Spending Balloons (pymnts.com)
  Chinese tech giant Alibaba is focusing on agentic commerce innovations as it spends heavily on artificial intelligence.
• PYMNTS | 7 Winning Indicators Lift Economic Outlook Out of 4-Year Slu… (pymnts.com)
  The Conference Board said Thursday (Aug. 20) that the Leading Economic Index’s six-month growth rate turned positive.
• CPI | American Express Loses Appeal Seeking Arbitration of Merchants’… (pymnts.com)
  A U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision denying American Express’ request to stay the litigation and compel arbitration.
• CPI | Portugal Rail Market Faces Competition Push as Regulator Target… (pymnts.com)
  Portugal’s competition regulator is pressing the government to remove barriers that have kept the rail market insulated from competition.