For much of the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by how fluently machines handle language. In her onstage conversation on Tuesday (Feb. 3) with Jeetu Patel, chief product officer at Cisco, World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li argued that this focus is now running into a harder constraint: systems that reason well […]The post Fei-Fei Li Says AI Progress Now Depends on Physical Context appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

Smith Corona was once the king of written communications. For most of the twentieth century, the sound of work and study in America was the clickety‑clack of typewriter keys in offices, newsrooms and dorm rooms as hundreds of thousands of machines moved ink to paper using typewriter keys. By the late 1980s, Smith Corona […]The post Big Tech Faces the AI Innovator’s Dilemma. appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

Explore more conversations like this on the PYMNTS Podcast page Technology has altered the basic assumption of payday, which has typically been every two weeks or twice a month. In an economy where nearly every other transaction settles instantly, the delay between completing a shift at work and accessing wages “later” has begun to look […]The post Same-Day Pay Becomes a Hiring Edge as Paycheck Gaps Bite appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

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 […]The post Pay Flexibility Rises as More Workers Earn Variable Income appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

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 & Copays—How Each Generation Navigates Digital Healthcare” described as an “expectations gap” between young patients who want seamless, […]The post Gen Z Wants to Use Smartphones to Pay Their Doctors appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

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 […]The post Billing Shifts From Back-Office Chore to Customer Loyalty Test appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

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 […]The post Nevada Files Civil Enforcement Action to Stop Coinbase From Offering Event Contracts appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

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 […]The post Justice Department to Appeal Ruling in Google Search Antitrust Case appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

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 […]The post Lotus Health AI Raises $41 Million to Build AI-Powered Model for Primary Care appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

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, […]The post Sam Altman Explores New Economics for AI-Driven Scientific Discovery appeared first on PYMNTS.com.