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pymnts.com > news > artificial-intelligence > 2026 > sam-altman-floats-industrywide-pause-as-frontier-ai-safety-concerns-grow

Sam Altman Floats Industrywide Pause as Frontier AI Safety Concerns Grow

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (403+ words) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that the firm is considering slowing down its development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, Bloomberg reported Friday (Sept. 11), citing unnamed sources. Altman said that he hopes other AI labs will join…...

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pymnts.com > startups > 2026 > ai-startup-cohere-targets-20-billion-dollar-valuation-funding-round

AI Startup Cohere Targets $20 Billion Valuation in Funding Round

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (342+ words) Artificial intelligence startup Cohere is in advanced talks to raise between $2 billion and $3 billion at a valuation of $20 billion, The Globe and Mail reported Friday (Sept. 11). The deal could close as soon as next week, although it has not been…...

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pymnts.com > news > artificial-intelligence > 2026 > nvidia-becomes-the-worlds-most-active-100-million-plus-vc-investor

Nvidia Becomes the World???s Most Active $100 Million-Plus VC Investor

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (478+ words) AI is collapsing the walls between venture capital and infrastructure finance. Nvidia’s rise to the top of the $100M-plus funding round leaderboard shows that startups are increasingly being financed alongside the compute, power and data centers they need to scale....

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pymnts.com > cybersecurity > 2026 > jensen-huang-predicts-new-ai-models-will-drive-massive-cybersecurity-demand

Jensen Huang Predicts New AI Models Will Drive Massive Cybersecurity Demand

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (318+ words) Cybersecurity will be the artificial intelligence industry’s next big market, in part because of the capabilities of new AI models set to be released by AI labs, Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang said Thursday (Sept. 10). Because those who can…...

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pymnts.com > news > artificial-intelligence > 2026 > anthropic-reports-chinese-labs-clone-claude-capabilities-on-industrial-scale

Anthropic Reports Chinese Labs Clone Claude Capabilities on Industrial Scale

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (397+ words) Seven labs based in China have targeted Anthropic’s generally available Claude models in illicit distillation attacks, Anthropic said in a report released Thursday (Sept. 10). Unauthorized labs use illicit distillation to extract and mimic capabilities from frontier models, without having to…...

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pymnts.com > news > artificial-intelligence > 2026 > ai-agents-need-permissioned-funding-sources-not-company-bank-accounts

AI Agents Need Permissioned Funding Sources. Not Company Bank Accounts.

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (530+ words) AI agents may not need money; they need permission to spend it. Treasury can keep liquidity centralized while software receives programmable authority to create approved obligations. Virtual cards, stablecoins and bank rails become execution options, not the core product. The…...

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pymnts.com > news > artificial-intelligence > 2026 > openai-focuses-on-investment-banking-ahead-of-wider-financial-services-rollout

OpenAI Focuses On Investment Banking Ahead of Wider Financial Services Rollout

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (275+ words) OpenAI has introduced a tailored ChatGPT Work experience designed for financial institutions, the company said in a Thursday (Sept. 10) press release. ChatGPT for Financial Services is initially focused on investment banking and equity research, and it is designed to help…...

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pymnts.com > news > artificial-intelligence > 2026 > instacarts-clementine-ai-turns-one-message-into-a-grocery-cart

Instacart???s Clementine AI Turns One Message Into a Grocery Cart

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (341+ words) Instacart launched Clementine on Wednesday (Sept. 9) in the United States and Canada, an AI assistant that turns a message like “high-protein easy dinners for two” into a ready-to-buy cart, built on 1.6 billion lifetime orders and 10 million daily inventory signals. It’s…...

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pymnts.com > news > artificial-intelligence > 2026 > mistral-cloudera-team-meet-sovereign-ai-demand

Mistral and Cloudera Team to Meet Sovereign AI Demand

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (314+ words) French artificial intelligence startup Mistral teamed with American hybrid data and AI platform company Cloudera, according to a Thursday (Sept. 10) news release. The partnership is designed to address increasing demand for sovereign AI, or AI that “keeps data, intelligence, compute…...

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pymnts.com > news > retail > 2026 > target-turns-app-ai-features-into-bigger-orders-and-faster-checkout

Target Turns App AI Features Into Bigger Orders and Faster Checkout

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (371+ words) Target is seeing results from the artificial intelligence-powered shopping features it added to its app over the past year, the retailer said in a Tuesday (Sept. 8) press release. “Guests move naturally between our stores and digital channels, and we’re using…...