Author: Art Ryan

Key Takeaways: Adobe Brings Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express Into ChatGPT Adobe Integrates Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat Into ChatGPT’s Conversational Interface Adobe has announced that Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Adobe Acrobat are now available directly inside ChatGPT, allowing users to edit images, design graphics, and manage PDFs using natural-language prompts—without leaving the chat interface. The integration makes Adobe’s flagship creative and productivity tools accessible to ChatGPT’s more than 800 million weekly active users, lowering the barrier to entry for both casual users and professionals who want faster, conversational workflows without having to switch between applications. The tools are free to use…

Key Takeaways: AI Data Centers in Space AI Data Centers Move Beyond Earth as Energy Constraints Tighten The race to scale artificial intelligence is colliding with a hard constraint on Earth: energy. As demand for AI compute surges and terrestrial data centers face years-long delays tied to power limitations, water-intensive cooling requirements, land availability, and permitting, some of the world’s most influential tech and space leaders are looking beyond the planet itself. Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and a growing group of startups and enterprises are exploring whether AI data centers can operate in orbit—powered by the sun and freed from…

When Anthropic launched Skills in October, the announcement read like a niche developer feature. Two months later, OpenAI has adopted the same architecture—and the quiet convergence reveals something significant about where AI agents are heading. Skills are deceptively simple: folders containing Markdown files that tell AI systems how to perform specific tasks. But their adoption by both major AI labs suggests the industry has found a common answer to a fundamental question: how do you make AI assistants consistently good at specialized work? What OpenAI Just Did Developer Elias Judin discovered OpenAI’s implementation on December 12 while experimenting with ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter.…

Key Highlights: NVIDIA has been among the top AI companies that is helping other AI giants with its infrastructure and GPU building capabilities that can run datacenters efficiently. Starting today, NVIDIA is also doubling down on open, agentic AI with the launch of Nemotron 3. It’s a new family of open models, datasets, and tools designed to power large-scale multi-agent systems across different industries. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 lineup targets efficiency and scale across AI workloads According to NVIDIA, the Nemotron 3 family includes Nano, Super, and Ultra models. All of them are designed for different workloads. Be it lightweight assistants to complex…

In 2025, enterprises reported meaningful gains from AI pilots, but fragmented deployments quickly ran into rising costs, governance gaps and operational complexity once adoption moved beyond small teams. After two years of rapid experimentation, companies are consolidating disconnected tools into unified AI platforms designed to support core workflows, control inference spending and operate reliably across the organization. The shift marks a turning point in enterprise AI adoption, moving the technology from isolated productivity gains toward infrastructure that must run continuously and at scale. Hidden Cost of AI Fragmentation The rush to pilot generative AI tools has created an unexpected problem…

Standards. Protocols. Alliances. It was a big week as usual in the Prompt Economy with several announcements that show cooperation among some of the power players that will make agentic AI’s infrastructure the commerce and communication engine of the future. The biggest one came from Block, which has joined with Anthropic and OpenAI to launch the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), an open source initiative housed under the Linux Foundation and designed to shape how autonomous AI systems are built and deployed. In a statement published by Block, the company argues that agentic AI is reaching a critical inflection point, where early architectural choices will determine whether the technology evolves as…

Workflow automation platform ServiceNow is reportedly in advanced discussions to purchase cybersecurity startup Armis. The deal, which could be worth up to $7 billion, could be announced in the coming days and comes in the wake of Armis’ preparations for an initial public offering (IPO), Bloomberg News reported Sunday (Dec. 14), citing sources familiar with the situation. PYMNTS has reached out to both ServiceNow and Armis for comment but has not yet received a response. Based in San Francisco and founded by veterans of Israel’s military cyber intelligence forces, Armis deals in identifying and tracking security threats to devices, working with a variety of industries, such as defense, telecom, medical, retail and financial services. According to Bloomberg,…

Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to ban state-level AI regulations. “For banks, payments firms and FinTechs leaning on AI for fraud detection, credit decisioning and customer-facing chatbots, the message is straightforward: the White House is seeking one federal playbook, not a patchwork of state requirements,” PYMNTS wrote. But making that order a reality could face legal and political opposition from states who want some say in how artificial intelligence (AI) is governed, Reuters reported Friday (Dec. 12). The report noted that Trump’s order, which instructs federal agencies to sue and withhold funding from states whose AI laws the White House…

The traditional holiday shopping journey, a linear path of keyword searches, doom-scrolling and multi-step checkouts, is being dismantled in real-time. This season is seeing the rise of agentic commerce, where AI not only suggests products but also actively intermediates transactions. Retailers expect AI-assisted commerce to play a larger role in how consumers discover, evaluate and purchase products. To prepare, merchants reworked product data, payments infrastructure and discovery systems as conversational tools increasingly shape the path to purchase. As Karen Webster, CEO of PYMNTS, wrote, “ Systems designed for human attention and human decision cycles are now interacting with autonomous agents that…

OpenAI said it is adding more safeguards to its artificial intelligence (AI) models amid rapid advancements in all AI models. While the advancements in all AI models bring benefits for cyberdefense, they also bring dual-use risks, meaning they could be used for malicious purposes as well as defensive ones, the company said in a Wednesday (Dec. 10) blog post. Demonstrating the advancements of AI models, the post said that in capture-the-flag challenges, the assessed capabilities of OpenAI’s models improved from 27% on GPT-5 in August to 76% on GPT-5.1-Codex-Max in November. “We expect that upcoming AI models will continue on this trajectory; in preparation, we are…

Enterprise artificial intelligence is entering a new phase as companies that spent the past two years experimenting with large language models are now moving those systems into live environments. It’s causing a shift in investment and engineering resources toward inference infrastructure. Inference refers to the stage where a trained model processes new data and produces results. When a customer service chatbot answers a query or an AI system analyzes a financial document, that is inference at work. While training creates the model by processing vast datasets to learn patterns, inference applies that learned knowledge to perform specific tasks at scale. As…

Disney has reportedly sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google, alleging copyright infringement by the tech company via its artificial intelligence tools. In the letter, Disney alleges that Google has used the entertainment company’s content to train its AI models and distributed copies of its work to consumers, Ars Technica reported Thursday (Dec. 11). Disney calls on Google to stop using that content in its AI tools and to prevent those tools from generating images of Disney-owned characters, according to the report. Asked about Disney’s letter by Ars Technica, a Google spokesperson said, per the report: “We have a longstanding and mutually beneficial relationship with…

Modern enterprise leaders have grown accustomed to major technological transitions arriving with a playbook. Cloud migration? There were frameworks, maturity models and reference architectures. Cybersecurity? Standards, best practices and step-by-step roadmaps proliferated. Even digital transformation, messy as it was, offered blueprints for customer journeys and operational overhauls. But today’s shift toward artificial intelligence feels different. Findings in the November 2025 The CAIO Report from PYMNTS Intelligence reveal that the greatest threat AI poses to enterprises today isn’t job loss. It’s unpreparedness. As firms rush to automate workflows and reengineer their talent models, most admit they lack the skills, processes and organizational clarity…

On Thursday (Dec. 11), The Walt Disney Company announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and a groundbreaking three-year licensing agreement that will allow the artificial intelligence firm’s Sora video model to generate short fan-created clips using more than 200 Disney-owned characters, settings and worlds. This is more than a creative collaboration; it’s a new intellectual property (IP) licensing paradigm: the first time a major studio has formally sanctioned a generative AI platform to use its copyrighted universe. For financial services, payments and FinTech professionals, this landmark deal is a crucial case study in how global enterprises are moving from a stance of litigation and restriction…

OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-5.2, saying the new model is designed for professional knowledge work and unlocks “even more economic value for people.” GPT-5.2 is better than its predecessors at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools and handling multistep projects, the company said in a Thursday (Dec. 11) press release. “GPT-5.2 sets a new state of the art across many benchmarks, including GDPval, where it outperforms industry professionals at well-specified knowledge work tasks spanning 44 occupations,” the release said. The model is available in Instant, for everyday work and learning; Thinking, for deeper work; and Pro, for “questions where…

Pinterest plans to extend its performance advertising capabilities to connected TV (CTV) by acquiring CTV performance advertising platform tvScientific. The company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire tvScientific and, subject to regulatory review and other customary conditions, it expects the transaction to close in the first half of 2026, Pinterest said in a Thursday (Dec. 11) press release. The acquisition will enable Pinterest to bring to CTV the high-intent audiences it identifies on its platform, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) systems to deliver personalized recommendations and shopping experiences based on users’ activity, according to the release. The tvScientific platform will be…

Shopify this week introduced its Agentic Storefronts to put merchant products directly into the AI chat interfaces, where many shoppers now begin their product searches. The feature lets merchants publish their catalogs to artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot so that shoppers can ask questions, compare items and complete purchases in a single thread, per the company’s Wednesday (Dec. 10) announcement. Shopify said the update responds to a clear shift away from search pages and toward conversational interfaces where consumers describe intent directly to AI systems. Agentic Storefronts uses Shopify Catalog, a structured data system that formats attributes, pricing, availability and…

Software company Harness has been valued at $5.5 billion following its latest funding round. The firm’s Series E, announced Thursday (Dec. 11), was led by Goldman Sachs and brought in $200 million. “AI has rewritten the first half of software engineering,” Jyoti Bansal, Harness co-founder and CEO, wrote on the company blog. “The second half — everything after code — is where the next chapter will be defined. Delivering software safely, reliably, and with confidence is bound to be the biggest differentiator for modern engineering teams.” He added that the “investment accelerates our ability to build the systems that make that possible: unified intelligence, deep context, and…

Stripe has introduced a new solution designed to help brands and eCommerce platforms sell through multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The new Agentic Commerce Suite is designed to help businesses get “agent-ready” by making their products discoverable, simplifying their checkout and allowing them to accept agentic payments, Ahmed Gharib, product lead, agentic commerce at Stripe, said in a Thursday blog post. “The Agentic Commerce Suite will help significantly expand the number of businesses that can start selling on AI agents,” Gharib said in the post. Stripe’s launch of this solution follows the introduction of the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) that the company co-developed with OpenAI and released in…

The long-awaited Federal government campaign to quash state-by-state AI regulations is on. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11 directing the federal government to establish a new national approach to artificial intelligence and to push back against state-by-state AI rules the administration says are slowing U.S. innovation. For banks, payments firms and FinTechs leaning on AI for fraud detection, credit decisioning and customer-facing chatbots, the message is straightforward: the White House is seeking one federal playbook, not a patchwork of state requirements. In the order, titled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” the White House frames AI…