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• PYMNTS | Anthropic Previews Standard for AI Control of Physical Devic… (pymnts.com)
  Anthropic is opening a research preview of a shared specification for AI agents to operate physical devices for labs and manufacturing.
• PYMNTS | Affirm Makes Smaller Purchases BNPL’s Next Growth Test (pymnts.com)
  Affirm’s results show BNPL moving toward more frequent and smaller purchases as merchants fund more 0% offers and consumers use Affirm Card.
• PYMNTS | Cisco Deploys Custom AI Agent to Entire 90,000-Person Workfo… (pymnts.com)
  MyAgent allows employees to access approved large language models, agents and enterprise data, Cisco said in a new post.
• PYMNTS | Thomson Reuters Taps Decades of Content to Train AI (pymnts.com)
  Thomson Reuters has launched a proprietary large language model that the company developed in-house and trained on its decades of content.
• PYMNTS | B2B Pricing Power Changes When Software Can Prove Its ROI (pymnts.com)
  Transaction-rich B2B platforms create an opportunity to calculate software ROI after its deployment, showing its balance-sheet impact.
• PYMNTS | Bitcoin Climbs Past $80,000 as Wall Street Returns (pymnts.com)
  Bitcoin climbed above $80,000 this week for the first time since May, with renewed demand from institutional investors.
• PYMNTS | DraftKings CCO Explains How Crown Cash Unifies Rewards (pymnts.com)
  Shawn Henley, DraftKings’ chief customer officer, says Crown Cash is designed to make rewards easier to understand and use.
• PYMNTS | SBA Proposal Could Add 114,000 Firms to Small Business Ranks (pymnts.com)
  The SBA is proposing a sweeping rewrite of the industry size standards that decide what qualifies as small businesses for federal programs.
• PYMNTS | TD Bank Unlocks $141M in AI Value Months Ahead of Schedule (pymnts.com)
  TD Bank Group delivered 195 million Canadian dollars (about $141 million) in AI value in the first three quarters of its fiscal year 2026.
• PYMNTS | Mirae Embarks on Push to Build $109 Billion Digital Asset Em… (pymnts.com)
  South Korea’s Mirae Asset Financial Group is reportedly launching a major push into the digital finance sector.
• PYMNTS | Apple Cuts 150 Siri and Vision Pro Jobs Amid Greater AI Focus (pymnts.com)
  Apple is laying off nearly 150 employees as it focuses on AI. Many of the jobs are in software engineering and machine learning.
• CPI | Iowa, Montana Ask Supreme Court to Halt Paramount Merger Challe… (pymnts.com)
  Iowa and Montana argue that the litigation threatens a transaction they say would benefit consumers and the broader economy.
• CPI | Google Reaches £260 Million Deal to Settle UK App Developer Case (pymnts.com)
  Google has agreed to pay £260 million to resolve a British legal action brought on behalf of app developers, heading off a scheduled trial.
• CPI | Poland Seeks €250 Million EU Fine Against Meta Over Scam Ads (pymnts.com)
  Poland is pressing the EU to impose a €250 million penalty on Meta, amid allegations that it has failed to remove fraudulent advertisements.
• CPI | KKR Agrees to Record $250 Million Penalty in US Merger-Filing C… (pymnts.com)
  KKR & Co. agreed to pay $250 million to resolve a U.S. antitrust case over failures to comply with federal premerger disclosure rules.
• PYMNTS | Polymarket Enters Sports Leagues With Sportsradar Partnership (pymnts.com)
  Prediction market company Polymarket says it has expanded its relationship with sports data provider Sportradar.
• PYMNTS | Experian Brings Conversational Credit Card Browsing to ChatG… (pymnts.com)
  Experian has launched an app on OpenAI’s ChatGPT that helps consumers discover and compare credit card options through a conversation.
• PYMNTS | Dollar Tree Attracts Higher-Income Customers as Sales Climb … (pymnts.com)
  Dollar Tree is attracting middle-income and higher-income shoppers amid inflation, management said on a Q2 earnings call.
• PYMNTS | Amazon and Walmart Test If Drones Can Make Rural Delivery Pay (pymnts.com)
  Amazon and Walmart are both looking to see whether drone delivery can make suburbs, exurbs and smaller markets economically attractive.
• PYMNTS | Visa Rolls Out AI-Powered Cyber Vulnerability Patching for C… (pymnts.com)
  Visa expanded the capabilities of its AI-powered cyber risk management tool to include vulnerability remediation and validation.
• PYMNTS | Hong Kong Tests ‘Know Your Agent’ in Payment Workflows (pymnts.com)
  Financial institutions have mastered identifying customers. Hong Kong is starting to test how to identify the AI agents acting for them.
• PYMNTS | How Jack Henry, FIS and nCino Put Bank Modernization to Work (pymnts.com)
  Banks are buying and adopting technology while putting AI into defined credit, fraud and employee workflows.
• PYMNTS | Wells Fargo Makes New Push to Recruit Wealth Managers (pymnts.com)
  Wells Fargo is trying to convince hundreds of financial advisors to join its wealth management business following years of overhaul.
• PYMNTS | AI-Driven Hacks Shake Up Cyber Insurance Industry (pymnts.com)
  The rise of AI-powered hacks from companies like Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI has cyber insurance firms rethinking their policies.
• PYMNTS | BankChain Puts Community Banks in the Digital Money Race (pymnts.com)
  Community banks see a new blockchain alliance as a way to access costly infrastructure by pooling resources.
• PYMNTS | Socure Acquires Fraud Fighter Fravity as Valuation Hits $5.2… (pymnts.com)
  A new round of funding allowed Socure to acquire Fravity, an agentic platform aimed at automating fraud, risk and compliance operations.
• PYMNTS | Nasdaq Verafin Adds Q6 Cyber’s Dark Web Intel to Fraud Platf… (pymnts.com)
  Nasdaq Verafin and Q6 Cyber have partnered to help financial institutions identify and respond to emerging fraud and scan threats.
• PYMNTS | Nvidia Nearing $13 Billion Deal For AI Startup Hugging Face (pymnts.com)
  Nvidia and Hugging Face have held discussions about a $13B acquisition in the last few weeks, a deal that would give Nvidia a key AI asset.
• PYMNTS | AdvancedMD Uses AI to Cut Pajama Time and Recover Revenue (pymnts.com)
  AdvancedMD CEO Amanda Sharp tells PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster that AI can help physicians reclaim after-hours time.
• PYMNTS | CFOs Find Working Capital Hiding in Every Payment (pymnts.com)
  Priority’s Court Toomey shares why an opportunity for CFOs is deciding how each dollar should leave the balance sheet.
• PYMNTS | The Rewards Opportunity Credit Unions Can No Longer Ignore (pymnts.com)
  Credit Union Innovation Readiness: The Rewards Opportunity Credit Unions Can No Longer Ignore - A PYMNTS Intelligence and Velera playbook
• PYMNTS | Credit Unions Are Missing the Rewards Their Members Want Most (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence reports on how rewards can help credit unions win more card spending, attract members and support lasting growth.
• PYMNTS | BIS GM Ranks Tokenized Deposits Above Stablecoins (pymnts.com)
  Tokenized deposits are more likely than stablecoins to perform the role of money, BIS General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos said.
• PYMNTS | This Week in Stablecoins: Interoperability vs Competing Inte… (pymnts.com)
  The next stablecoin battle may be over who controls the infrastructure that makes digital money interchangeable.
• PYMNTS | Experian, JPMorgan Push Account Checks Into Payment Workflow (pymnts.com)
  Payee verification is moving into APIs and business software, giving companies a chance to identify account problems before money leaves.
• PYMNTS | Enterprises Tap the Brakes on Tech Budgets and Demand AI ROI (pymnts.com)
  Spending on AI infrastructure is expected increase global IT spend this year, but not all enterprises are raising their spending that much.
• PYMNTS | Andreessen Horowitz Targets AI With New $1.1 Billion Fund (pymnts.com)
  Andreessen Horowitz has raised $1.1 billion for a new fund that aims to accelerate the buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure.
• PYMNTS | USD.AI Secures $100M Credit Facility to Power AI Buildout (pymnts.com)
  USD.AI has secured a $100 million stablecoin-based debt facility from digital asset platform Bullish to power its GPU financing ecosystem.
• PYMNTS | Microsoft Puts 25 AI Agents to Work on Supply Chain Costs (pymnts.com)
  Microsoft and Dow are using AI agents to catch freight errors, anticipate shortages and turn routine supply chain decisions into savings.
• PYMNTS | Google Scraps Search Ranking Penalties After EU Pressure (pymnts.com)
  Google has adjusted its site reputation policy in the European Economic Area (EEA) after discussion with the European Commission.
• PYMNTS | Dollar General and Dollar Tree Gain as Shoppers Trade Down (pymnts.com)
  Dollar General and Dollar Tree’s latest earnings show that value shopping is reaching beyond low-income households.
• PYMNTS | SoftBank Seeks $10 Billion Loan to Refinance OpenAI Stake (pymnts.com)
  SoftBank Group is reportedly seeking a $10 billion loan to help refinance debt used for its investment in OpenAI.
• PYMNTS | Advent, Stripe Abandon $50 Billion Pursuit of PayPal (pymnts.com)
  Advent International and Stripe have reportedly walked away from their pursuit of payments pioneer PayPal.
• PYMNTS | Billtrust CEO Takes Aim at B2B’s Trillion-Dollar Cash Jam (pymnts.com)
  Billtrust CEO Grant Halloran shares why the new edge in corporate finance is coming from using data, payments and human judgment together.
• PYMNTS | Discounts, Protection Could Shift How Digital Bank Customers… (pymnts.com)
  Discounts and buyer protection could move larger shares of digital bank customers’ payments away from existing methods.
• PYMNTS | Labor Economy Workers Forgo Sick Days to Keep Pay Coming (pymnts.com)
  Workers across income groups go to work sick at nearly the same rate, but Labor Economy workers feel the impact of missed shifts more.
• PYMNTS | Dormant Crypto Wallets Begin Moving Millions in Bitcoin (pymnts.com)
  Six bitcoin wallets that were last active between 2011 and 2014 moved around $40 million in the cryptocurrency between Aug. 16 and Aug. 26.
• PYMNTS | Samsung Adds QR Payment Feature to S. African Digital Wallets (pymnts.com)
  Samsung South Africa has added a new QR payment feature, Scan to Pay, to its digital wallet for Samsung Galaxy users.
• PYMNTS | Affirm CEO Sees Greater BNPL Demand as Gas Prices Climb (pymnts.com)
  Max Levchin the head of buy now, pay later provider Affirm says higher gas prices are weighing on consumers.
• PYMNTS | Anthropic Accused of Stealing Thousands of Songs in Label Su… (pymnts.com)
  Sony Music, Warner Chappell Music and several other labels filed a lawsuit alleging Anthropic improperly used their songs to train AI.