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Anthropic plans to launch its initial public offering in November, later than the October debut many investors had expected, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday (Sept. 18), citing unnamed sources. The November date may have been chosen to allow Anthropic to share its third-quarter financials, which are expected to show strong results. The date was The post Anthropic Targets November IPO as Revenue Surges appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

FinTech company Avant filed an application to establish an insured national bank called Avant Bank, N.A., the company said in a Friday (Sept. 18) press release. Avant filed the application for a national bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., according to the release. Avant The post Avant Seeks National Bank Charter to Serve Customers Directly appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Friday (Sept. 18) that will convene national experts to provide a guide for the state to reinforce and strengthen its laws covering artificial intelligence safety and security, the governor’s office said in a Friday press release. The executive order is meant to accelerate the implementation of new The post California Governor Mobilizes Expert Panel to Strengthen AI Safety Laws appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

Yahoo Finance ended its partnership with prediction market Polymarket, Bloomberg reported Friday (Sept. 18). A Yahoo spokesperson said in the report: “We had a previous partnership with Polymarket to display relevant prediction market data across Yahoo Finance. That specific agreement ended, but Polymarket continues to be an advertising partner across Yahoo, and we’re open to The post Yahoo Finance Ends Polymarket Partnership After Closing Prediction Markets Hub appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

Many companies can’t put a number on what artificial intelligence does for their productivity. Chewy has one. Chewy CEO Sumit Singh said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that Chewy expects AI to reduce its costs by about $50 million in fiscal 2027, up from the low tens of millions of dollars this fiscal year. The post Chewy Puts a $50 Million Price Tag on AI Productivity appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

Before 2008, new banks routinely entered the U.S. banking system by the dozens each year. Since 2010, they have appeared at a rate of fewer than six a year. From 1995 through 2007, the lowest annual number of new banks was 93, according to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data. From 2010 through 2024, only 86 The post New Community Banks Face a $20 Million Starting Line appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a proposal to regulate crypto asset transactions and crypto asset markets, according to a pending regulatory review notice on an OMB website. The proposed rule, which has not yet been published on the site, was submitted Thursday (Sept. 17), according to The post CFTC Files Crypto Regulation Proposal After Clarity Act Fails appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

The paper check has spent years as the punchline of B2B payments modernization. The next legacy format is already sitting in the accounts payable inbox. It’s the PDF. The PDF invoice is moving upstream into a data format problem as the B2B format becomes to AP teams what the paper check used to be. It’s The post B2B Payments’ Next Legacy Format Is the PDF appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

OpenAI has launched an artificial intelligence foundation designed to be used by law firms and legal technology companies to build AI products and workflows, the company said in a Thursday (Sept. 17) blog post. The new Astra for Law combines OpenAI’s latest and most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, with settings, tools and context tailored for The post OpenAI Targets Legal Tech Market With Astra for Law appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

The potential for agentic artificial intelligence and its open issues are well-established. The promise of agentic commerce rests on the assumption that the agent gets the job done. So, Alibaba put the agents to work on real tasks and gave them a grade. Alibaba.com released CommerceAgentBench, a public testing toolkit on GitHub, to measure how The post Commerce Test Shows Where AI Agents Break Down appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event that asked the question many seem to be asking right now: could…

On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the 30 minute session. So we asked our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and…