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Walmart is reportedly considering placing ads in its artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant, Sparky.
The retailer tested a potential ad format from September to early November and is now considering how to proceed, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Nov. 25), citing a Walmart sales presentation.
One possible format is a “sponsored prompt” that when clicked by the user,...
Two major artificial intelligence (AI) releases landed less than a week apart. Google introduced Gemini 3 on Nov. 18, presenting the model as a major step forward in multimodal reasoning and visual understanding. PYMNTS reported that the launch marked a deeper shift in Google’s approach to AI and reflected its push to regain leadership in the sector.
Anthropic followed six days later...
Prediction market Polymarket said Tuesday (Nov. 25) that it received an approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that positions the company to return to the United States under a fully regulated exchange structure.
The CFTC issued an Amended Order of Designation that permits Polymarket to operate an intermediated trading platform subject to the requirements...
The federal bank regulatory agencies have modified certain regulatory capital standards, saying they aim to reduce disincentives that may have kept banks from intermediating U.S. Treasury markets and engaging in other lower-risk activities.
They did so in a final rule released Tuesday (Nov. 25) by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Reserve Board (FRB) and Office...
The FBI’s Internet Crime Compliant Center is cautioning the public that cybercriminals are impersonating financial institutions to steal money or information from individuals, businesses and organizations.
IC3 has received more than 5,100 reports of account takeover (ATO) fraud since January, and these reports included losses totaling over $262 million, IC3 said in a public service...
Researchers at Imperial College London and Ant Group, part of the Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Group, introduced a new method for training groups of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to work together on complex tasks, presenting a framework that coordinates a main agent that plans steps and sub-agents that operate tools. The team detailed the approach, called M-GRPO, in a paper released this...
This time last year, bitcoin was topping $90,000 and flirting with all-time-high valuations. For cryptocurrency traders and blockchain maximalists, the Thanksgiving dinner table was likely one full of braggadocio and “I told you so’s” as they urged their family members not to miss out on the crypto rush, carried away by a shared sense of optimism that digital assets were finally entering a...
CoPlane raised $14 million in a seed round to build artificial intelligence-native software that integrates with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and automates core finance and operations processes.
In early deployments, the company’s software has eliminated thousands of hours of manual work by automating invoice exception handling, sales order entry and other high-friction...
Klarna has launched KlarnaUSD, its first stablecoin and the first bank-issued token to debut on Tempo, a new payments-focused blockchain built by Stripe and Paradigm.
The move, announced Tuesday (Nov. 25), positions the Sweden-based digital bank and payments provider to test blockchain-based settlement at a moment when stablecoin activity is rapidly scaling. McKinsey estimated the...
Google’s release of its Agent Payments Protocol marks an incremental shift in how commerce will operate, and toward an automatic future when it comes to transactions.
In its announcement of Agent Payments Protocol, Google outlines a framework in which artificial intelligence (AI) agents can initiate transactions on behalf of users.
PYMNTS coverage in the wake of that September...