Новости за 08.05.2026

The labor market added jobs at a moderate pace in April, but the latest employment data also underscored a reality that has increasingly defined the economy in the United States. Font-line workers remain central to hiring growth even as many workers continue to balance cautious optimism with concerns about long-term stability. The Bureau of […]

Airbnb is gaining innovation and efficiency through its use of artificial intelligence, the company said in a shareholder letter released Thursday (May 7). The company’s engineers now coauthor 60% of the code they produce with AI, enabling teams to ship faster, iterate more quickly, and deliver more improvements to guests and hosts, according to […]

The productivity debate around enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) has narrowed to one question: how much faster can workers complete existing tasks? Anthropic’s internal research suggests that framing leaves something out. The company found that 27% of AI-assisted work inside Anthropic came from tasks employees wouldn’t have attempted without AI. That work wasn’t impractical because it […]

Mastercard has launched a program designed to help small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region navigate the trade disruptions, rising energy and logistics costs, and other strains caused by the current regional conflict. Dubbed “Built Small. Moving Strong.,” the program brings together banks, government entities and ecosystem partners to […]

A video appeared on Instagram a few weeks ago: a granddaughter describing how her grandfather spent decades hand-stitching leather bags in a small workshop, his life’s work now available online for a limited time. The imagery was warm, the narration emotional, the backstory complete. It was entirely fabricated. ABC News identified dozens of similar […]

Forget the robot concierge. Consumers are warming up to artificial intelligence one mundane errand at a time, and that may be exactly the point. “The AI On-Ramp: Data Shows How Everyday Tasks Build Consumer Habits,” the April Agentic AI Report from PYMNTS Intelligence, found that the most powerful consumer entry points for generative AI […]

Anthropic is considering a funding round in which it would raise as much as $50 billion and be valued at $900 billion, the Financial Times reported Thursday (May 7), citing unnamed sources. The company is weighing the move as it fields inbound investment offers and as potential investors “are ready to throw any dollar […]

Watch more: Need to Know With Maverick Payments’ Rachel Costello The rise of embedded payments is reshaping how platforms position themselves within commerce, shifting from peripheral service layers to systems that control both the transaction and the surrounding customer experience. That transition remains uneven, and much of the divergence stems from how payments are […]

The real story in artificial intelligence is not adoption, but how unevenly companies are learning to live with it. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “No Roadmap, No Problem: How Enterprises Are Reinventing the AI Workforce,” found that large firms in the United States have mostly moved past experimentation and are embedding AI into day-to-day operations. […]

Luxury resale used to be a secondary consideration. The numbers say it isn’t anymore. Nearly half of luxury consumers now factor resale value into primary market purchases. Almost 60% prefer the secondary market outright. The RealReal has been building the infrastructure layer for that shift — and artificial intelligence is what’s making it scalable. […]

Google is revamping its health and wellness product and platform lineup. The company is making its Google Health Coach generally available, transitioning the Fitbit app into the new Google Health app, and launching the new Fitbit Air, it said in a Thursday (May 7) blog post. The Google Health Coach will become publicly available starting May 19 […]