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Waymo will give Bay Area riders $2.85 in Waymo Cash when one linked Visa card pays for a Waymo trip and a transit fare within two hours, across 27 agencies. The card proves both rides happened, and the payout stays in Waymo's own credit.
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Anthropic and OpenEvidence are giving doctors in about 100 low- and middle-income countries free access to a clinical search tool that is already free in the US and Europe, where physicians ran 42 million queries in August.
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Mastercard's Agent Pay has now cleared three national-first payments at European incumbent issuers in six months, while PYMNTS Intelligence research shows consumer interest in delegating spending authority falling as AI use rises.
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PYMNTS Intelligence counts 78 million US adults, 36% of cardholders, changing their primary card inside 24 months, and most of the winning cards were already open. Account counts hold steady and the interchange moves.
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A Microsoft case study credits Docusign's swap to small task-specific models with 90% lower cost and eight times the throughput. Docusign's own accounting of the whole pipeline claims 50 times cheaper per document.
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Citi's live dollar transactions with First Abu Dhabi Bank and OCBC, and SoFi's tie-up with Kraken's parent, both removed a cutoff time, which leaves CFOs deciding what software may release at 2am Sunday.
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The cut Brink's advertises arrives without the vault balance it applies to, has to survive a 15% average forecast error from another vendor, and lands while the Federal Reserve still counts cash at 14% of US payments.
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Six years of one-way drift in US apparel, still widening through mid-2026. Walmart's triple-digit brand comps have not shown up in its category line.
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The Calgary company's Series C is pitched to credit unions as deposit defence. The evidence that the banks are exiting comes from the firm raising money against it.
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Reports say X is weighing USDC for creator rewards. Nothing is committed, but Meta already pays some creators in USDC, which tells you what stablecoins are now actually for.
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A June 2026 PYMNTS Intelligence and WorkWhile index finds 64% of fuel-affected hourly workers have changed how or whether they work. The posted rate is not the price they are evaluating.
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