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As inflation, layoffs and uneven wage growth continue to strain household budgets, millions of Americans living paycheck to paycheck are relying on side hustles and gig income to stay afloat, even as those earnings introduce new volatility into already fragile finances.
The paycheck-to-paycheck economy remains deeply entrenched. As of October, 66% of U.S. consumers lived paycheck to...
From virtual doctor visits to scheduling apps and health trackers, consumers are steadily integrating technology into how they manage healthcare.
However, adoption is unfolding unevenly across age groups, creating what the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Clicks, Care...
Streamlining billing and payments optimizes the entire customer experience, Paymentus President and CEO Dushyant Sharma writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off.”
As the economic environment continues to be somewhat challenging for households, service providers are looking for ways to ensure that customers are able to pay their nondiscretionary bills...
The Nevada Gaming Control Board filed a civil enforcement action Monday (Feb. 2), seeking to stop Coinbase from offering certain event contracts in the state.
The board said in a Tuesday (Feb. 3) press release that it considers the offering of sports event contracts and certain other event contracts to be wagering activity that requires the entities offering those event contracts to be...
The Justice Department and 35 states will appeal a September 2025 court ruling that allowed Google parent company Alphabet to keep its Chrome browser after losing an antitrust case.
The plaintiffs said Tuesday (Feb. 3) in court papers that they will appeal the ruling, Reuters reported Tuesday.
A federal court judge ruled in 2024 that Google has a monopoly in the online search business...
Lotus Health AI raised $35 million in a Series A funding round to increase the availability of its “AI doctor” that provides free, round-the-clock primary care.
Together with a seed round, this brought the company’s total funding to $41 million, Lotus Health AI said in a Tuesday (Feb. 3) press release.
The company will use the new funding to build out the infrastructure, clinical team ...
Sam Altman used his appearance at Cisco’s AI Summit on Tuesday (Feb. 3) to sketch a future in which OpenAI’s role extends beyond selling access to models and into selectively backing the outcomes those models help produce.
Speaking with Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel, Altman cast this idea in cautious language, noting that what he described is not something...
Sam Altman rarely describes the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in narrow terms. When asked where the technology ultimately leads, he moved quickly beyond software, portraying AI as a force capable of reshaping physical infrastructure, accelerating scientific discovery and driving broad economic growth.
“I can imagine billions of humanoid robots building more data centers and...
Bolt has partnered with investing-as-a-service platform Atomic to add embedded investing capabilities to the Bolt SuperApp, a consumer finance platform.
With this collaboration, the Bolt experience will offer consumers the ability to open brokerage accounts, trade stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and invest through automated managed portfolios, the companies said in a Tuesday (...
Banco Santander plans to expand its presence in the United States by acquiring the holding company for Connecticut-headquartered Webster Bank for $12.2 billion.
The combined business created by the acquisition will be a top 10 retail and commercial bank in the U.S. by assets and a top five deposit franchise across key states in the Northeast, Santander said in a Tuesday (Feb. 3) press...